Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-08-06

Aldrich bill re-enacts the Dingle,
duties on S2l, $40, 900 of the imports
The balance Of imports under thi
schedule, $4,000, represent the tota
amount of refined white sugar tha,
found a way to market in this country
in spite of a practically prohibitivt
duty or l.95 cents per pound under the
Ding}ey law. That duty is reduced
by .O5 cents in the pending bin. This
Production is too small to be meas
urably to the consumer and If he were
to receive the benefit of it in cores
ponding reduction of the price of sug.
ar, his benefit in year, according tC
the average per capita consumption
OF sugar, would amount to the prince
ly sum of four cents. This "reduc-
tion" in schedule sc" applies to about
one-half of one per cent. of the impor-
tations under that schedule and
amounts to only about per cent. on
that to which it applies This is one
of the reductions which made Mr..
Fordney ''sweat blood wherefore
Cannon put him on the conference.
Schedule 'F," the tobacco schedule
of the Dingley law, is re-enacted bodily.
The total imports in schedule &c, :"
which embraces agricultural products
and provisions, amounted in all to
about 63 millions. On 81 millions of
these imports the Dingley rates are
re-enacted in the Aldrich bill. On 10
millions of the balance the rates are
increased on the average of Al per
cent. On the remaining one million
there is reduction of 30 per cent.
The net result is an increase of per
cent. in the schedule as whole.
On schedule ''H," spirits, wines,
and other beverages, there is net
increase of 25 per cent.
On one-third of schedule e." the
cotton goods schedule, the Dingley
rates are increased % per cent. On
all the rest of the schedule, except
the insignificant sum of S45,OOO the
rates of the Dingley law are re-enact-
ed. On this schedule taken as whole
the increase amounts to practically Is
per cent. Thisdoes not take into ac-
count the new Quty on mercerfzation,
which it has been n---s,u~,>s-.@ass--.a,zs~-~-
the people So, $50, 600 a year to be paid
mostly to the cotton goods manufac-
turers OF New England.
Schedule ~" of the Dingley law,
embracing flax, hemp, jute, and man
ufactures thereof, is the Dingley law
re-enacted as to Is per cent. of the
imports and the increases on the rest
of the schedule slightly over-balance
the decreases, so that the net result
in this schedule is the substantial
re- e-enactment of the Dingley law with
a slight increase.
Schedule OK" the outrageous
woolen schedule of the Dingley law,
is re-adopted as whole in the pend
ing bill, perpetuating the monopoly of
the WOOlen trustS,-tO result soon in
an increase of one-fourth in the price
of clothing.
Schedule III, y silks and silk goods, is
advanced, on the whole, 16 per cent.
Schedule "M," embracing pulps,
and books, by reason of the fight made
by the publishers of the country for
free pulp and free print paper, and
a third reduction in news print paper,
shows an average reduction on the
whole schedule of "a per cent.
Schedule IN" sundries, shows a
net increase of ll.15 per cent above
| the Dingley rates.
Quito of 500 millions Of imports under
all the schedules, the bill as passed by
the Senate leaves 45O millions subject
to the Dingley rates of duty. This
proportion represents practically Is
per cent. OF the total dutiable imports
and over II per cent. of the total tariff
revenue. The increases in all the
schedules apply to 21.5 OF the dutable
imports and % per cent. of the revenue
The decreases apply to less than Il
per cent. of the total imports, yield
ing less than 6 per cent, Of the tota
revenue. On the whole bill the in
creases above the Dingley rates
apparent from the face Of the bill
amount to more than 13 millions o
dollars in revenue and represent a ne
increase in tariff duties of paracticall.
per cent. These figures can taxi
no account of the many importan
increases produced by new de fnitions
new classifications, new duties anc
provisions for valuation which, to
gether, will result in enormous in
creases which cannot be reduced t,
mathematical estimates.
The Country Demanded and tn
Republican Party Fairly Promised
that the Tariff Would Be Revise,
Downward on the Basis of the Differ
ence in Cost of Production, Here ant
Abroad.-La Tollettes Magazine.
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