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The article presents economic updates of the U.S., as of March 25, 1897. The Dingley tax on books and instruments for libraries and colleges, along with the renewed tax on art, shows the U.S. how much the Republican party really cares for the intelligence of the nation to which it so earnestly appealed in the last campaign. Another update tells that in many respects the Dingley tariff bill is the most extreme protection measure ever laid before the U.S. Congress. In professing to restore McKinley tariff, the rates of the law of 1890, and asking credit because of the moderation of the plan, the great change in the economic situation of products has been ignored.

The article presents economic updates of the U.S., as of February 2, 1893. In the year 1875 a treaty of reciprocity, so called, was made between the United States and his Majesty the King of the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaii, the principal feature of which was the admission of Hawaiian sugar free of duty to this country. It would be useless now to discuss the wisdom or unwisdom of the Treaty of 1875. Other considerations than those of sugar planting entered into it. For better or for worse, the treaty ran along until the McKinley tariff was passed.

The article focuses on several issues related to finance in the United States. Some complaints have recently been heard from exporters of canned goods over a ruling of the United States Treasury Department requiring the actual inspection of all articles of export upon which a drawback is claimed. As it appears to be a physical impossibility to make this inspection with the force at the disposal of the Government, the exporters have been compelled to let some of their goods go without obtaining any drawback upon the tin cases in which they are packed. The net purport and effect of the McKinley tariff on tin plate has been to transfer from the pockets of the American people to those of the importers of that article a very large sum of money. The smart fellows, who pretended to make tin plate and who distribute Welsh plate in the form of tin cups, pans, and whistles as the genuine American article, "loaded up" with the imported article before the new tariff took effect.

This article presents brief descriptions of various socio-political developments and issues in the U.S. as of November 6, 1890. It first discusses the issue of the election of William E. Russell as the Governor of Massachusetts, who, supposedly, deserves a triumph for a worthy candidate after an inspiring campaign. The article further reports that Henry L. Pierce, one of the Representatives Massachusetts Republicans, address to a large audience in Boston on the tariff, in which he made a most effective answer to those who thought the McKinley Bill for tariff, had either settled the tariff issue in the interest of business.

This article presents information related to economic and social issues. Prices of goods under the McKinley Tariff are now generally called McKinley prices, as distinguished from ordinary or normal prices. The peculiarity of McKinley prices is, that they are generally higher in the things that the U.S. is in the habit of importing, but unchanged in the things that the U.S. do not import. It now seems practically certain that census returns of the total population of the U.S. will themselves demonstrate the defective character of the canvass by which they were obtained, far more conclusively than any number of partial recounts are at all likely to do.

This article presents brief descriptions of various socio-political developments and issues. It first discusses about the Tariff Bill proposed by the Committee of Ways and Means in the U.S. The bill proposed to pay a bonus of two cents a pound to anybody who chooses to grow sugar, and one dollar a pound to anybody who chooses to grow raw silk. One feature of the bounty on sugar is, that it commits the Government for fifteen years, regardless of the complexion of future Congresses in the U.S. The article further discusses the McKinley Tariff Bill, which proposes an increase in duties on blankets and felts for printing and paper-machines.

The article discusses the opposition of progressive statesman Robert La Follette and libertarian writer Albert Jay Nock on the war from left and right. Topics discussed include the agreement of La Follette and Nock the counsel of U.S. former President George Washington must be followed by the country, the support given by La Follette for the protectionist McKinley Tariff, and the antiwar views of Nock.

Presents several letters to the editor regarding various previous articles and socio-political developments and issues. Suggestions regarding questions of morals and of economics; Comments on an article discussing the McKinley Bill and its effect on increasing the inflation; Discussions of ways and means used by the American Publishers Association to gain funds.

President-elect has merely followed normal party precedent in promising to the interests that have waxed fat through the Republican sale of tariff favors a new deal which, for the public, is bound to be anything but a square deal. A tariff, which the Democrats revised downwards, is to be revised as the McKinley tariff was written and the Dingley tariff was drawn and the Payne-Aldrich changes were made. There can be no permanent revision of the tariff, and despite many earned professors there can never be a scientific revision of the tariff, because its cornerstones are cowardice, greed, ignorance, and national selfishness.

This article discusses about the defeat of the Republican Parties in the election for the House of Representatives, and explanations given by the Republican Party regarding this defeat. It is evident from the excuses and explanations which the Republican leaders and newspapers are putting forth regarding their defeat, that few of them have comprehended the real significance of what has happened to them. The almost unanimous view appears to be that if the McKinley tariff had gone into effect a little earlier, or the elections had not occurred till a year or so later, there would have been no defeat, but rather a glorious Republican victory.

The article offers information on the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, focusing on his support for improving U.S. infrastructure, the U.S. Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and the Tariff Act of 1890, or McKinley Tariff, that raised import duties in an attempt to protect American industry.