Show DINGLEY'S BILL Washington April 24 Mr lr Rawlins furnished the Herald with the following state tate tate-nent nent of his views in regard to the Din Dinley ley tariff bill The principle on which the Dingley now nov pending In the senate i is i constructed and the purpose it is desi de- de si ned to accomplish accompli b are frankly stated by y a leading supporter in this language As a nation we e we have and raw producing industries nou h. h It It is js the artistic ing and n industries that we need eed Any duty ther therefore fore placed upon agricultural tural mining or forest foret products product should be id a-id revenue only and nd all protective duties dUlies should be levia levied levi- levi ed a on manufactured nd artistic products prod- prod It is is to increase the proportion of f four our ur urbanizing urbanizing-as iz ng as compared with our industries This no no 0 be distasteful to man many Mountain fountain senators mav may thre threaten ten to d defeat de- de feat leat eat the bill unless uneconomic tariff duties are le levied for benefit of ru- ru their industries Thus the farmer the he miner the wool and the cattle grower grower rower being rural and nd not artistic social or urban are placed laced outside the pale of under this bill It was so intended The he discrimination between the rural and nd the urban or between the producers ers rs of the west and south and the northeast is visible in every paragraph of i the bill The rural are to be heavily taxed axed upon all they have to buy and ande be e compelled to struggle against unbridled un- un bridled competition in all ll they have to toen en ell 1 This can be read in the provisions of the bill rel relating to wool lead hides and nd ond other products of the farm and mine line mine also jn in the provision admitting an all 1 materials and articles free of duty to o be manufactured in bond for export export- a benefit of which eastern manufacturers alone one can avail themselves s and which provIsion will compel cempel rural home producers to compete with all the orld in respect to to such such articles Hence the te bill imposes enormous duties o on th the e prod products of manufacture while the products of the farm arm mine and other ind industries are made to bear little tile and aud that little coupled with loopholes loopholes loop- loop holes loles and aud r ready ad means of evasion v out is is' divided into three d classes seo The lie third class which I I. I am informed most ost- ost st st. m c comes s in to n c i i ii p- p ti ibi ll il wO wool ool l produced in the west bears a duty of or 32 per ad valorem equivalent valorem-equivalent equivalent to o about 2 cents per pound d. d while the first firt class Blass which competes with Ohio and id eastern wool bears a duty of 1 n it I cents cent per pound Goods composed in whole or in part part of wool competing with Wilh the product of eastern astern woolen mills mill bear a duty per pound of 60 per cent ad valorem valore and 4 times the duty dUlY on out wools alai o of the first class ass Tile The rhe last duly duty i is called compensatory It t assumes that it requires 4 d pounds of f taw raw wool of the first class to make one ne pc pound und of cloth cump composed sed in ul whole or r in part wool woo second that the cost to tolie the lie manufacturer o of all raw wool both oth domestic d and foreign and of all Classes lasses is by the duty duly n II cents per pound Common sense and all experience show the he falsity of these assumptions flu Iii fact act the wh whole le bill is framed in disregard of the welfare of the consumers consumers con- con sumers umers and great body of producers The Trie tariff ought to be subordinate until the financial question is settled and settled ettle right To Co this en and for for th the e sake ake of the general welfare I would would be belad glad lad to see any new tariff legislation made as reasonable and just as as possible that hat no excuse might remain for diverting diverting divert- divert ing ng attention om the h paramount i issue sue the schedules in inn the bill as aR it has las passed the house houe are arran arranged ed not I o of equity and fairness bu but t fur for sectional advantage e and class class' favoritism favor |