[To THE EDITOR OF THE "sFzer6ron.") Sin,—Your correspondent " Vigilans
sed 2Equus " in the Spectator of March 7th quotes a German writer who says:— " In 1897 Germany sent the United States textiles to the
amount of 25,150,000 but the American duty being well over 50 per cent that means that the German textiles sold there must be 50 per cent. cheaper than if they were sold to England,—in other words, 22,620,000 must come toff. That is, every textile operative in Germany is threatened by the American Tariff with the loss of a tenth of his yearly income." Will you allow me, as an old subscriber, to ask you whether it does not also mean that the American duty was paid by the German operative, which is quite contrary to [We by no means agree that the American duty was paid by the German operative. It was, of course, paid in the long run by the American consumer.—En. Spectator.]
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