Show CANNON AND TRUST FRIENDS Your Uncle Joseph Cannon Is hay hav having h v vIn lug ing In a busy time these days trying to explain why he refuses reuses to let con congress congreSs gress ress vote on the newspaper publish publishers ers era request for or the removal or of the tariff on print paper and wood pulp pr which paper pap r is made Indeed Uncle Joseph shows signs of ot anger not no to tot t say iy of of various kinds whenever th the LI subject bj ct cornea c m rn s up In his speech at the Ute Knox dinner Thursday Thurs Thursday day evening Mr Cannon is quoted as assaying assaying saying that a get the publishers of or the country to tell the truth about the paper tariff He wanted to know what difference a at tariff t of ot o 15 per er cent makes anyway and Intimated that he h had been mis mistreated mistreated mistreated treated in the discussion of ot the sub subject subject subJect In the th first place if I a duty of oC IB Iii 1 per cent cen makes no IJo difference rence what ob objection o can there be to removing it itIn itIn ItIn In the second place why should hould Mr Cannon refuse refus to let r l f congress vote on the question when eighty Republicans and all aU the Democrats stand ready to vote for tor abolition of the duty What sort of representative government is it that makes it possible for one man to subvert the will of ot the whole house of representatives and defy the wishes of or orso so large a number of ot men Interested in the publishing business The 15 16 per cent difference duty dut makes just this difference With the duty to helo h ln them the manufacturers have established a monopoly In deft defiance defiance ance of law raised the price of paper to an extortionate figure practically abolished competition in one of oC the greatest industries of the country paid enormous dividends on watered securities securities securities ties and seized the control of nearly all the spruce forests of the country countr from which paper is made The increased cost of paper to New York publishers alone was as something like a year and the total cost to the publish publishers ers of the country has hils been estimated at from to What the tariff means to the paper trust may maybe be inferred from the fact that the pool of mills restricted the mills of 0 one company to a profit of 0 50 per cent and nd a profit of 60 GO per cent has not been b en unusual Canadian mills have been selling paper profitably at 32 a ton at the mill while the trust mills in this country countr have put prices as high as 52 i 2 a ton The Canadian mills have competed in a small way vay with the American mills and made money although the tariff against them is 6 a ton So plain is the evi evl evidence evidence dence of an illegal combination that t lat the of the United States has prepared to prosecute the trust criminally How has Speaker Speak r Cannon cooper cooperated cooperated cooperated with the publishers to prevent the extortion which threatens to ruin their business His latest move has been to secure the passage of oC a resolution asking the for the In Information Information Information formation In hand showing the exist existence existence ence enee of an illegal trust Nothing was wa to 0 be gained by b this except to give the trust Information in advance as to the evidence against it which the govern government government government ment proposes to use In its prosecution If the speaker were the hired attorney attorn C Cot of ot the paper trust he could not pro proceed proceed proceed more diligently in Its Interest Fortunately the president and the at are on the th other side The att refuses to give the information because it would expose expos his plans and betray his evidence nc to the enemy enem Enraged by b his failure to secure the Information the trust wants the speaker declared at the Knox dinner that by the rising sun if we dont get the information we have called for forwe forwe forwe we will appoint a committee and get gel ge the facts for ourselves We Ve wish 1 the tho speaker joy of his Job Before his rising sun sets he will discover that his friends of ol the paper trust are in ina ii a fair way to get Justice which is more than he proposes to give gle them and if he will keep on fighting alon along UM tho lins Ilna he has chosen the people of the coun country coUntry co n try will get a demonstration of the way trusts are protected In in their rob robbery robbery O Obery bery of the people by the Republican party a demonstration that will make ri th Uncle Joseph sick and put his party part j out ut of business on election da |