Why Dingley Rates Are So High

Afraid to open your chops about the MoKinley bill before the electioii, having won, you are out-Herodiug Herod, ■out-McKinleying McKinley, because the men who furnished the mouey to carry the election are relentless taskxnasters, clarnorous for their remunei-ation. They have such ravenous appetites that you have been compelled to raake the rates higher than iu the Mc_Kinley bill. Let tliis i:ot be forgotten, inscribe it on the tablets of your memory. Be it knowu that the average tarift tax under the McKiiiley bill was 49.58 per cent ad valoreni; nnder the Wilson■Gorman bill, 39.94 per ceut, and uuder the Dingley bill, 57.03 per cent. Henee the average rate of taxution on something like 4,000 articles of every day consumption is 8 per cent higher under the Dingley bill than under McKinley's 1a.v anrl l 7 ner nent hieher than under