The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-27

lions, in 1900 229 millions, in 1907
the largest sum ever collected from
tariff-329 millions, and in 1908 2S3
millions; the annual average in the
past three years being round terms
800 millions per annum. The duties
collected amounted in 1921 to 80 per
cent. of the value of the total merchan-
disc imported, in $50 to As per cent.
in 1850 to 20 per cent, in 1860 to
16 per cent. in 1870 to AZ per cent,
in 1880 to 20 per cent, in 1890 to 20
per cent, in 1900 to 2S per cent, and
in 1907 to 20 per cent, of the total
value of the merchandise brought into
the country.
The share of the imported merchan-
disc which paid a duty on entering
the country has varied greatly. From
1920 down to 1888 less than 10 per
cen. of the merchandise entering the
country came in free of duty From
1888 to 1874 the share admitted free
of duty ranged from 25 to so per cent.
of the total. From that date to 1857
the share imported free of duty ranged
from to II per cent. of the total.
From 1857 to 1868 the share imported
free of duty ranged from 20 to 27 per
cent. From 1863 to 1867 the share i'm
ported free of duty ranged from 70 to
10 per cent. From 1867 to 1873 the
proportion entering without payment
of duty ranged from Az to S1s per
cent of the total. Beginning with
1873 the share of merchandise import
ed free of duty steadily increased,
commencing with 81 per cent. in that
year and reaching Sc per cent. of the
total in 1892, SO per cent in 1894, 1872
per cent. in 1905 and 4412 per cent. in
1908.
The share which the customs duties
have borne in producing the revenues
of the country has also varied with
varying conditions. From 1891 on
down to 1S4S small sums were COZ
lected as internal revenue, seldom,
however, reaching as much as l mil
lion dollars. In 1868, however, the
present system of internal revenue
was established, the receipts there
from in that year being in round terms
SS million dollars, while the customs
receipts were GA millions. In the per-
iod from 1864 to 1868 the internal rev.
enue receipts averaged PIT million
dollars per annum, and the customs
receipts 1877 millions per annum. With
the close of the civil-war period in
ternal taxes were modified, and the
annual average of internal-revenue re-
ceipts during the period from 1859 to
1897 was 1873 million dollars per year,
and the customs receipts 1S1 millions
per year. During the Spanish-Ameri-
can war period from 1898 to 1902 the
receipts from internal revenue averas-
ed 264 millions per year, and the GUS
toms PIP millions per year. With the
of the internal-revenue
axes following the clost of the Span
war the receipts there
rom fell below those of the customs
md the annual average Of the internal
evenue receipts in the period between
800 and 1908 was 245 millions, while |
hose from customs was 284 millions. |
1t must not be supposed, however,
hat because dozen articles or |
of articles pay three-fourths
f the tariff duties collected the max
ng of tariff and the determination
f rates of duty and the amount of
evenue likely to result therefrom is
Y any means a simple matter. The
ates of duty levied are not applied
lerely to groups of articles as
hole, but apply at different rates
nd in different terms to various
rades and qualities of articles form
lg each group, and in many cases to