Show W WOOD OD PULP AND PAPER The finance committee of 01 the senate haq ha ba decided that the newspapers of ot the country cutry must muM continue to pay PY toll to the f paper trust In view ot of the tim makeup of the committee the outcome was wall to tobe tobe j be expected although the evidence in inthe Inthe Inthe the other oUter direction dl adduced by the UM pub publishers p b usher lishers was watI generally regarded ac a con eon conclusive conclusive elusive In ht every respect re Democratic and Republican newspapers suffer alike but not net in sIlence in either case For 1 instance the Chicago Tribune which should know all II that Is iii good bad bd and andS indifferent regarding the tariff te le out outspoken S spoken in its it Ir denunciation of the con continuation n of this particular form torm of or robbery and quotes the Republican na national naI Q I platform to prove that the Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean manufacturer of ot paper U Is 1 entitled l to no protection whatever the cost of ofa ofa r a ton of ot paper being leas leu in the United States stat than in Canada with free wood 1 f pulp which h the house houe bill Wit gives them But Senator Hale of ot Maine alM Is 18 a mem mom member LIM ber of 01 Ute the finance committee and Is III r held to be justly entitled to a share abare of Gf the loot and the Tribune reasons 8 1 thusly ur It happens that there are a number of or mills milia In the state of Maine which la labor labor 1 I bor under uDder the he twofold disadvantage of ot hion machinery and an excessive excessive sive capitalisation Uon Ion They find it hard to pay dividends on watered stock without government assistance in the form of a II duty duly on Canadian print paper peper which enables them to get more for their pro product product product duct They had bad better buy improved 4 machinery and thus th put themselves in ina Ina I Ii i a position to produce more cheaply 1 Mr Norris Nom chairman of or the commit committee tee t on co paper of or the American Amerlean Newspaper News ii per pir Publishers association u instate Insists t that r the International Paper company compan can ain t F make paper cheaper with Its Ita antiquated machinery than the Canadian mills milia can cant t with their modern modem machinery machine and he 2 accuses Chairman Aldrich h of deliberate deliberately V ly y suppressing affidavits purporting to toS show the coer of or Canadian mills mm He S also says Mya that tbt the publication of these t J affidavits would snow show disreputable methods on OIl the part of or the paper I makers This ThIll will the more readily be bei i believed when It is 18 called to mind that g Senator Aldrich and the Republican I I members member of the finance committee de die deliberately suppressed the report made H I t by bv the German G n government in lit response i i to a request by b this country count as to I I 1 wages wage paid over there I The fact that som so ome of the Democratic l k senators accepted the bribe offered O end by bythe byi I f 2 i I the Republicans and ad voted for a tariff i El J on n lumber baat anything to do with j the th barefaced robbery of the the newspapers De Deper I I ti pers per It is Ia only oBly proof that some men menas menu menI I I as u well as some ome communities cannot n withstand temptation |