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Show ALL FREE EXCEPT THE GULLET Though the Democratic ndmlnls trntlon is presumably committed to a low tariff or frco trade policy tho steadily Increasing deficit has caused tho treasury department to forget party principles and taJ;o advantngo of oeiy technicality that will permit per-mit the collection of a customs duty. Tho most ludicrous attempt of Secretary Sec-retary McAdoo to Increase tho government gov-ernment revenues Is his recent order to the colcctor of customs nt New-York New-York respecting wnshands, or ox gullets, gul-lets, emtio and dried. This merchan dise is used for snusago casings, nnd heretofore It has been tho prnctlco to classify It under tho provisions of paragraph 410 of the Underwood tnrift law for integuments, tendons and Intestines of animals, crude dried or salted for preservation which como In freo of duty. Whether Mr. McAdoo, after studying study-ing his dictionary, discovered that p-i oxgullet was somo inches from ho Intestine, defined as that part of tho. digestive tubo below or beyond tho stomach, and henco could legally bo mado dutiable, or whether this" Is but tho Initial step toward levying duty elenn through tho critter, so thnt his InBt end will bo worso than his first, It Is lmposslblo to determine. deter-mine. At nil events, tho collector has been Instructed to levy a duty of 10 per cent on oxgullcts, henceforth, under un-der paragraph 3Sil nil raw or unmanufactured unman-ufactured articles not enumerated. This Is a marvo ous discovery on tho part of Mr. McAdoo. it bIiows his wonderful grasp of detail and his presenco of mind at a time when tho treasury deficit threatens to swamp tiio Democratic party. "Out (of tho carcuss of the ox shall come forth revenue," quoth McAdoo. "Ills hair, his hide, his hoofs, his horns, his blood, his bones, his meat, aro mado duty frco by tho Demqcrat-ic Demqcrat-ic law. It Is so nominated in tho bond. Hut they overlooked his Bill-.ot Bill-.ot and on that shall I tako toll. Tho longer tho gullet tho larger tho tax." Probably Mr. McAdco's noM step in this direction will bo to declare that In chief valuo tho ox Is composed com-posed of gullet, nnd In this manner ho can lovy a 10 per cent duty on tho entire carcass. Had tho Republican rato on fresh meat been retained In tho Uudor-wood Uudor-wood law all this blithering nonsense wou'd have been unnecessary, a fair revenue 'would have been collected and tho country would havo been better off in every particular. Illinois Illi-nois Stato Journal. |