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Show PAPER MAKERS. Senator Root has offered an amendment to tha reciprocity treaty in behalf of the paper maker of the I'nited State. Our belief ia that he made a mistake; our belief ia that if reciprocity will result re-sult in cheaper paper, then, under the old rule that the greatest good must be obtained for the greatest great-est number, it will be a good thing. The paper maker are devastating our forests. With all their improved machinery, if they cannot make paper as cheaply as' they made it aome years ago when the making of paper out of wood pulp wu a new industry, then the paper men have right to look to Canada, or to any other country, for a cheaper material, for the modern newspaper has become one of the world's necessities, book are half the food of all the civilized world; and the material entering en-tering inta.h-..newgpaper and the. book--ug-tto be just aa reasonable a poaaible, allowing a fair profit to the men who make the paper. For the last five year the attitude of the paper maker ha seemed to u precisely like that of a California don key in the old day. Feed him until ha wa ready to bunt, feed him until he wa uncomfortable because be-cause of an overloaded stomach, and yet he would go within sight of a atack of grain and, with the most melancholy face on earth, would "yee-hawl" fn the most plaintive note, until anyone passing and, seeing him and hearing hi voice, would declare de-clare that, he must be starving to death. It is only in this particular that we would compare American paper maker to the gentlemen with the long ear and the loud voice, because there is a difference between the two animals. One cla pretend .to be made up of gentlemen, the other never pretends to be anything jut a grasping jackass. |