New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-08

x,,r,or March 1T is a sorry record which
. v-uson- German Tariff law presents at the close
:. lee Nrst wear and han Of operation In that
.,,a I, has fallen s75cOoooo short Of meeting the
,,n,ne expenses of the Government, has produced
"a o ooo less than the Mckinney law did In Its last
.,sbteen months and slOoooVo less IMAM IL o'o III
&c ors, eighteen months; has cut down the re-
10 both in customs and internal revenue. has
s,o.a the quantity Of goods brought into the
rntrv free Of duty. but has largely Increased the
,nnortat,ons of articles in competition with inc
-oauctions Of the American working men anu
women. 49,, ,,.,o,,
49, onarations of the law In its first few months,
:. ,ola seem that certainly by the time II had been
T., onera,ion a year and a half 1t would be able 10
chow what 1t could do. Yet. It's receiptS ior '''o
month lust ended fell 100000 below the average
monthly expenditures and in not single moh'h
~ the eighteen in which it has been In operation
have its receipts reached the normal monthly aver
oga Of expenditures. With the excessive importa-
lions of dutiabe goods which followed It's enact
nsnt and with the extraordinary impor'auohs VI
a. last two months stimulated by the prospect OF
increased rates Of duty under the penang Eiei
cencv Revenue BILL the customs receipts have laleh
FAR short Of those in the corresponding mon'"S IA
the history OF the Mckinley law. and the internal
revenue receipts So,ocooo short OF those III IL
like period of the Mckinley law.
In only one particular can the wilson law oa''''
e IN flooding the country with the products OF
,hean foreign labor In spite of the assertion tnat
this law was to give TO the country foreign goous
free of duty or at low rates the articIes oiousi'
in free OF duty have fallen more than $o'"'"v
short OF those brought in free in the last year anu
a half of the Mckinley law. and the percentage OF
goods brought in free of duty under the new law
ia far below that under the Mckinley law
DISAPPOINTING IN EVERY FEATURE.
haoc
ing Reducing the rates OF duty on many articles
ON the assumption that this reduction would so
largely swell the importations as 10 increase the
customs collections. it has fallen far below the
mark fixed by the Mckinley law in the correspond
ing period TO customs receipts. Adding largely
brought into the country less goods free OF duty
than did the Mckinley law in like period OF It's
cent its internal revenue receipts have fallen many
millions below those Of the Corresponding period
10 the running expenses ard create treas
ury surplus. i has fallen $.5co9cGe short OF the
corresponding period Of Its history created sur
plus Of nearly onehrd tia, sum- Como 10
munlty. its enactment has been followed by an
enormous increase IN tne importation OF aer.eu.I
farm productions. Promising to open the doors OF
foreign countries to nstive prEducons mas
OF general merchandise than in any year OF the
present decade under either the Mckinney tarm or
OF agricultural products In the first full calendar
year of the law S45. 14.315, while under
the Mckinley law the agricultural products aver
aged sl0o,00o.0cO year greater.
HERE ARE THE FIGURES
The following tables Will enable the reader 10
see at glance what the Wilson law has accom-
plished and what II has faied 10 accomplish in
comparison with the Mckinley law. which its
trainers so violently denounced. TIE figures II
will be observed. compare the workings OF the
new law in It's first eighteen months with the first
eighteen months and the last eighteen months of the
Mckinley law
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS UNDER MKINI.EY AND VIII