Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1910 — A Simple Explanation. [ARTICLE]

A Simple Explanation.

We are told by the tariff apologists that “more than half of the merchandise imported under the new tariff law enters the United States free of duty.” Really, indeed! But, as the Baltimore Sun remarks, “duties can be put sohigh on dutiable goods that no dutiable goods will come in at all, and then the percentage of free imports will be 100.”