$34.64 per family, which is far below Mr. Edward Atkinson's estimate.

Our imports of raw wool in 1903 were valued at $21,258,031, on which a duty of $11,631,048 was collected. Hence the total duty collected on wool and woolens was $29,195,736, or $1.72 per family. As only about one-tenth of our woolen goods are imported and as the tariff cost of these goods is, at retail, about $1.50 per family, it is reasonable to assume that the tariff cost of the ten times as many domestic woolens is, at retail, $10.00 per family. In the table the total tariff cost is estimated at $11.00 per family, of which $1.72 went to the government.

AVERAGE FAMILY PAYS $94 A YEAR TO PROTECTED TRUSTS.

According to these estimates, which under rather than over estimate the amount of the tariff tax, the average family spent in 1903, including the values of goods consumed at home, about $940. Of this $940, $830 went for goods, $16.52 went as legitimate taxes to the government, and $94 went to swell the profits of the trusts and monopolies. That is, $1 out of every $10 expended by an American family goes to protected monopolies. The tariff tax therefore unnecessarily increases the cost of living 10 per cent. and amounts to $1,599,000,000 for the 17,000,000 families in this country. It is this tax which is mainly responsible for the unparalleled growth of trusts since the passage of the Dingley Act in 1897, for the dangerous concentration of wealth in the hands of a comparatively few, and for the rapid increase in the number of multimillionaires. Every man who votes to "stand pat" on Dingley "protection" votes to tax his family 10 per cent. a year on all its expenditures and to turn the proceeds over to the monopolists, who already own or control a majority of all the wealth of the country.

TARIFF TAX PAID BY FAMILIES IN THE DIFFERENT VOCATIONS.

Although the amount of expenditures for tariff taxes varies in the different classes of families, according to their incomes and general expenses, yet it is approximately correct to say that the percentage paid on account of tariff is about the same in the various vocations.

The expenditures of the average family in the wage earning classes probably does not exceed $780 a year. Those of the average family in the salary earning and professional classes will probably average $1,200. Those of the average family in the employing classes, exclusive of the farmers, will probably average $4,000 or $5,000 a year. We have then the following estimate of the

TARIFF TAX PAID BY THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY.

Grouping Employers and Employees and classifying families according to occupations, we have the following estimates of the

TARIFF TAX PAID BY THE AVERAGE AMERICAN FAMILY

From these estimates it will be seen that the monopoly feature of "protection" costs the 17,000,000 families of this country approximately $1,600,000,000 a year.

THE DINGLEY TARIFF IMPOSES AN AVERAGE DUTY OF 48.81 PER CENT.

TABLE SHOWING ARTICLES IMPORTED, AND THE AMOUNT OF TARIFF TAX LEVIED UPON THEM FOR THE YEAR ENDING

JUNE 30, 1904.

On every $100 worth of dutiable goods brought into the United States, a tariff tax of $48.81 is levied, thus making merchandise worth only $100 cost the American consumer $148.81. The total amount of dutiable goods imported for the year ending June 30, 1904, was $536,940,590, upon which was levied a tariff tax of 48.81%, or $262,013,079.

Following is a table showing leading articles imported in the year ending June 30, 1904, the value of those articles, and the amount of tariff duties imposed upon them by the Dingley tariff law. Imported Merchandise Entered for Consumption in the United States, Including Both Entries for Immediate Consumption and Withdrawals from Warehouse for Consumption, with Rates and Amounts of Duty Collected During the Year Ending June 30, 1903.