They have shut out dutiable imports and increased the free list. in other words. they have stolen the fruits of free trade. and are now masquerading before this country and demanding its gratitude for doing what we propose to force them to do. They have increased enormously the free list. and therefore increased the importations of the free articles. they have decreased dutiable imports and they have decreased the revenue sixtyodd millions of dollars. Here is the report officially. which I happen to have in my hand. a statement of the foreign commerce and immigration for June. 1892. and after giving the figures. here is the result: It will be observed in the foregoing table that there has been. during the year ending March 31. 1892. a very large increase in the value of imparts of merchandise entered free of duty as compared with values of like imports for the prior years. At the same time there has been a somewhat larger decrease In the value of the dutiable imports. In other words. there has been an increase in value of imports free of duty during the year ending March 81. 1892. 6f V06.349.334 over value of like imports for the year ending March 81. 1889. and an increase of $201.768.519 over like imports for the year ending March 31. 1890. and $187.597.975 over value of free imports of the year ending March 8ll1891.
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