Mckinley Free Trade

SprtngtteM.(Mase.) Union: Perhaps this captton tooké likc a paradox, but a little examlnation of the results of the McKlntey tariff will show that the wuntry is really enjoying a. lai-ger degree of free trade %vith the outside Avorld thaii ever befo re in its hisitory. Durilng tlie twolve months endinfi Maivh 81, 18,91, including bíx months of oíd taiiíí und híx months oí the new, before the sugar repeal and the retiprocity provisions went toto effect, our imports of merctiantiXee, free of duty, amounted to $309,200,099, or 37.01 per cent. of the total importe. Durtag the twelve nonths ending Marcli 31, 1892, the mports, free of duity, amounted to $401,473,523 or 55.13 per cent, of thO total. Thus, while before the reviskm oí the tariff a, little more than one-tlnird ot our Importe were tree, uuder the McKimley tariff more than tme-half are free. And yet we continue to hear that the people are bein robbed by the M;Ivnley tariff. Back jtumber orators and last year newispaperH keep up the oíd fictkm ín the hope that the people can be further deceived. líut tlw facts are too plain tu be blinked out oí wight. While t-lie McKintey tariff ratead the duties on some articles, lor the protectlon of people wii'o aro producing thoee artictea u tliiK country, it reducid or aboñefaed the dutk-s on artícles whicta do not compete with home producís. It : hard lor some people to vt tliis Iont into their headte, bat that is the plata and simple lact about proteetion. Tlie awful Chtmeee wall of pro(ectiou wliivh tüe (lemocrats declan vas to be built armuul tliis coiii1 ry to shut out foreígu trade, has resuitfd in a íreer trade than we over enjoyed before.