Show protective AVERAGE RATE DP DUTY TY lower under elekini y than rrb I 1 I 1 e fole except under irce vree trade des despite pite oar our repeated demonstrations of the fact that the average rato rate of tint dul imposed by tho the mckinley tariff law is the lowest imposed for many years despite tho the fact that the freo free list in that I 1 law aw is greater than ever before the char charge 0 baill continues to bo be recklessly made by the organs that tho the mckinley tari tariff IT is tho the most prohibitory protective law the country has had the st L louis ouis republic one of the unredeemed and unredeemable free trade reform papers of the west lias bas ev evidently not tired of tho the old falsehood yet for in its issue of june 11 it breaks out thus where mckinley tares taxes are per cent or over where they aro are equal or more than equal to the full value of the goods to cost of goods cost of fro freight ight and cost of packages es tho the minnea minneapolis polis platform declares for duties equal al to the difference in labor cost that is for a tariff averaging not over a fifth of tha the average of the mckinley taxes tho the republic is even more than or ordinarily d I 1 reckless in this statement and its outrageous ge exaggeration aeration can be easily shown tho the united states statistical abstract a government publication whose e fairness cannot be hu impeached pe ached gives the following as the average rates of duty prevailing during the named ier per cent 1815 saco 2 2 CT 1 ra 13 ism 1830 ism 1833 1805 I 1 1545 1845 2737 1850 18 SO percent Pe cent 1 ISO 38 46 1870 42 2 23 irs isao 2907 1895 2312 23 12 1801 it will be seen that with tho exceptions of the years 1820 1833 1835 1840 1830 1835 and 1860 the rate of duty collected in the year 1891 is the lowest on record now the year 1820 falls in the period of the free trade tariff of 1816 the years 1835 1635 and 1840 in that of the compromise free trade tariff of 1833 1633 and the years 1830 1835 and 1860 in that of the walker free trade tariff of 1846 1910 the rate of duty ther therefore eforo imposed by the mckinley tariff is lower than that imposed by any other tariff law enacted as an avowedly protective measure it is always a bad thing for the reformer when figures are resorted to we hope that this will put an effectual stop to the operations of the avera average rate era of te ofa liar |