Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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GENERAL JOSE CEBALLOS, Governor of the Federal District.
(...) foot of land, a decent habitation nor scarcely a change-of clothes. The tax collector turns in despair from this vast population and concentrates his power upon the countrys commerce, which is, of course, crippled in consequence to a frightful degree. The revenues of Mexico are raised mostly by means of a customs tariff on importations. This has proved a convenient system. The tariff is applied to the net weights and measurements of articles, and is never ad valorem. To expose the absurdities of the Mexican tariff system would be an easy matter — but such a criticism by an American would, at least while the McKinley tariff law is unrepealed, be in poor taste. Suffice it to say that Mexico has required a large revenue, and she has done the best she was able to do in the matter of raising it.
694 THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS,
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PLAZA DE ARMAS AND CATHEDRAL.
Fortunately protected interests have not been strong enough to dictate a tariff policy. The desira-bility of lowering the tariff is thoroughly understood by the Administration. No group of statesmen atWashington are more thoroughly convinced of the desirability of free trade than are Secretary Romero, those who surround him in the Treasury Department, and Secretary Mariscal. It may safely be asserted that the statesmen of Mexico are as far in advance of their constituents on the tariff question as the American people are in advance of American politicians onthe subject. Those politicians who, for instance, during the recent Presidential campaign said that it was Republican protection, not Democratic protection, that was robbery, no more reflected the intelligence of the American people or influenced the result of the election one way or the other than so many bubbles riding on a mountain stream influence its course. For many years both political parties in (...)

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