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with as proposed by the President it is
of still greater Importance that the duties

of still greater Importance that the duties
on manufactured products shall be
brought down somewhere near the pro-
tective point 1t will be of little advan-
tage to the body OF the people to do away
with unnecessary duties upon raw ma
terialS If the manufacturers are permit
ted to enjoy the excessive duties that en-
able them to take extortionate profits
upon the things that the people must buy
and USE"
Should Protect People.
/ Instancing the most prominent fea-
lures of the Senate bill. which he thinks
should be amended. Mr.. Cummins says
that chose who have been contending
part OF their just demands If they can.
insure the people against undue prices in
the chief commodities of commerce.
He then outlines his principal objec-
tions to the bill as it left the Senate. He
says the reductions in the steel schedule
generally are not sufficient. but the sched-
ule might be accepted but for the increase
on structural iron and steel.
structural iron and steel, the use OF
which is so rapidly increasing, says
Mr.. Cummins, lis raised from the Ding
ley rate of SO per ton and the House
rate of SIS per ton TO A. per cent ad va
loren. which, at the present price of this
commodity, means a duty of S16 per ton
an increase over the present law of st
per ton and over the House provision OF
$40 per ton.
Steel Too High.
when ii is considered that the duty
on steel rails is $3.50 per ton and their
market price is SIS per ton. the proposed
duty upon form of steel which sells
| for $50 per ton is wholly indefensible
Free iron ore is a very desirable thing
but when the welfare of the consumer Is
taken into account it would be vastly
better If a fair rate can be secured OF
but one of these items TO allow the duty
on iron ore TO go at - cents per ton anG
cut the duty on structural steel to So OF
Sc per ton. where ii properly belongs. anC
where it would still furnish complete pro
lection for home producers measured by
| the republican standard.
| I'm the lumber schedule if both rough
and dressed lumber are not free, as they
ought to he. the House rate of. ST or
rough lumber should be preserved. ant
the differential upon dressed lumber
should begin at % cents per Thousand
and not go beyond 60 cents per thousand
| In the paper schedule the House rate
OF 81 per ton on print paper, withou
the possibility of increasing it by a coun
| tervailing duty, and free wood pulp, also
| protected against countervailing duty
should be rigidly insisted upon.
I'm the cotton schedule the Senate in
creases from beginning TO end should be
rejected. and while ] believe that there
should be reductions in this schedule, the
people might be willing to stand for the
House rate, barring, of course, the hosiery
increases.
/ Wooden Schedule.
THE WOODEN schedule, with respect 10
| the compensatory duties to manufac-
turers. Is manifestly wrong: and the arti-
!, ficia, and arbitrary plan of estimating tn,
relation between unwashed and secured
| wool is grossly absurd The wool grower
is sacrificed in order to give undue pro-
Election To the worsted wool manufacture