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Show TRADE BECOMING NORMAL. (St. Louis Globe-Democrat) The President's prompt guess that the country would lack $100,000,000 in revenue, as a result of decreased importations, must have been purely psychological. The August imports were $129,767 90, w hich was not quite $8,000,000 less than in August. 1913. For September the imports amounted to $139,204,267, which was $9,436,777 more than in the preceding month, although over $30,000,000 less than In the preceding September. In August. 1914, the duties collected amounted to $19,431 363. Under the Payne tariff the duties on the same Imports wculd have amounted to $29,-158.844, $29,-158.844, or about $2,000,000 less than m August. 1913. That the shrinkage In revenue was due to the Underwood schedules and not to the decrease in imports is obvious. September and August figures of imports do not bear out Mr Dockery's bald assertion in his Missouri speech that European iniDorts had been "practically wiped out" |