Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1891 — Tariff Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Pictures.

New York Press: The percentage of free imports in 1824 was less than 6 per cent In 1842 it was 27 per cent In 1857 it was 18 per cent In 1880 it was 39 per cent and in 1890-91, for the first eleven months of the McKinley bill, from October 1 to August 1 it was 47.78 per cent. Will any of the free-trade organs that habitually misrepresent the McKinley tariff, by . claiming that it prohibits commerce, dare to publish this fact? The Press challenges them to. do it.