Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — More Revenue with Less Duty. [ARTICLE]

More Revenue with Less Duty.

Those commentators on the tariff who insist that a reduction of duties would be equivalent to a reduction of revenue betray ignorance of the subject. It wduld be quite possible to increase revenue by reducing d&}iss, and to reduce revenue by increasing duties. Many of the present protect- > £ ■- m ' ■ > >1

Ive duties are so high as to be prohlbl itory. To bring these duties down to a point where Importation would be profitable would result in increased revenue. There could be nothing jsimpler than the details of a revenue Will. It is only when tariffs are so arranged that the duties are no longer collected at the custom houses but at the warehouses and factories of favored persons, corporations, and trusts, that the matter becomes complicated.—Philadelphia Record.