SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 91 



lery, cheap knives, cheap scissors and things of that kind, and we have 

 slammed the door in her face by our excessive duties upon that class of 

 goods. That is of course applied to things that we do import. Where 

 it is not absolutely beyond the possibility of doing any business. I want 

 to call your attention to some schedules where this is absolutely pro- 

 hibited. Tom Reed in the last campaign he made for Congress in Maine 

 said, that there are two classes of people that this country has no use 

 for, they both" would starve the Government; one is the free trader, who 

 does not want to collect any revenue, and the other is the exclusionist, 

 who does not want any imports, and therefore prohibits by high reve- 

 nue. They would reach the same end, they both starve the Government 

 and injure the people. 



Now for Treasury Statistics: 



Chalk, such as tailors, billiard, lead or French, 106 per cent duty, 

 $34,000 imports, ?36,000 duty. Boracic acid, which is an article of ordi- 

 nary use, we have I believe the two greatest borax mines in the world, 

 the duty is 122 per cent. We imported $30,000, and paid a duty of $36,000 

 on it. 



Tannic acid or tannin 103 per cent duty. 



Nitric spirits of ether 250 per cent duty. 



Sulphuric ether 236 per cent duty. 



Cotton duck, over 8 square yards to the pound 112 per cent duty. 



In manufacture of cordage there is another case where the duties are 

 abnormal. Cables of fibre of 7 lea yarn, 108 per cent duty; another size 

 128 per cent; still another 150 per cent; a fourth 236 per cent; a fifth 30O 

 per cent; as a matter of course we do not import any cordage of that 

 kind. 



Gill netting, five lea yarn 148 per cent duty, $1,980 imports, $2,940 

 duties. 



Even fire crackers pay 126 per cent duties, as if we could not manu- 

 facture fire crackers in competition with the world. Cheap spectacles 

 116 per cent duty, common window glass, which is the kind ordinarily 

 used 24 by 30, 107 per cent duty, we imported $55,000 worth and the 

 duty paid was $59,000; 24 by 36, 125 per cent duty, $52,000 import, 

 $65,000 duties; 30 by 40, 129 per cent duty; above 40 by 50, 255 per cent 

 duty. As a matter of course we imported none of that. 



Looking glasses, 24 by 30, 130 per cent duty. Plate glass 24 by 60, 

 142 per cent ^uty. Pocket knife blades 103 per cent duty. Stocks for 

 double barreled guns 389 per cent duty. 



On certain grades of cane sugar, the duty runs as high as 120 per cent. 



Now those are the absolute facts, that Is the situation. Mr. Blaine 

 told us years ago he succeeded in having added to the McKinley bill o£ 

 1890 certain provisions of reciprocal trade relations with South America 

 that are of enormous benefit to us, it has been proven to us over and over 

 again. Mr. McKinley at the time when death itself was hanging over 

 him told us the greatest truth in regard to this great question that has 

 ever been uttered. He said the period of exclusiveness is past, and that 

 we must buy of others, if we would expect them to buy of us. That was 



