Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — Tariff Pictures. [ARTICLE]

Tariff Pictures.

New York Press: The average rate of duty on all our importations during the six months ended Sept. 30, 1890, and just preceding the enactment of the McKinley bill on Oct. I, 1890, was 29.58 per cent. What do you suppose it was under the McKinley bill -for the six months ended Sept. 30, 1890? 19.27 per cent. New York Press: For the three months ending June 30, we bought woolen and worsted goods of Great Britain to the amount of For the same period in 1891 we bought of these British goods only $1,906,515 This means that in three months the McKinley tariff has put into the pockets of the American producers of this particular class of goods the sum of $1,559,554 which would otherwise have gone across the Atlantic to help swell England’s wealth.