Show I It b J AS TO TARIFF REFORM ii j AU All Indications point to tariff re re- r vision islon It will not bo be e done by lIy the thet t present congress possibly and It wUlf will wUl f not be bo a radical attack on the tho prIn r. r jn ciple of protection either That tern tem has done one far too much for the enrichment en- en and advance of the nation to permit its destruction I IrI rI i No Republican has ever cyer held there 1 Is Is' Is anything sacred In Iii the tari tariff dules In some cases the sch schedules are no now doubtless too high The Ther r rate te ma may have been as nearly Dearl right as human reason could make it at the time It was enacted into law but changing conditions will make a dif ference Some rates may be too low That which the manufacturers of ot print paper have taken advantage of ofIs Is certainly too too- high That will be one of or the schedules to be revised revised- JY dow J. J And a the paper trust trust can cau thank elf Jf tIt it 1 ft If not successfully tullY attacked In Iii hi court And every other protected I interest interest na may thank the paper trust for fora a policy so offensive and Indecent that tariff revision has been lIeen a difficult thin thing to oppose Here aro are a few paragraphs tal taken en fro from nearly earh a hun hundred red of like convincing convincing convincing con con- i. i 1 quality They Ther provide the f basis on which is formed the Judgment Judg judg- n ment ent 0 of publishers everywhere e against t tho e print t l paper h trust sl At the beginning ng of the year ear 1907 there was a stock stok of or tons of or news print paper on hand baud August 1007 1907 should have disclosed a reasonable reasonable reason reason- able ablo stock on h hand nd and an ac accumulation tion but ut the announcement came in that 1 month from paper makers that thata a paper aier famine was vas imminent ent The president of pC the American can Paper Pulp association wrote in September 1907 1107 as follows Every Evry n indication n points to the tho fact that the consumptIon consumption tion Hon of or newspaper hn has rather more than thau overtaken th production and with the natural yearly hi Increase rease in inc c it would seem as though there would be a real scarcity of newspaper news- news v paper during 1908 and p perhaps for a much longer lime time I Newspapers find a difficulty in reconciling recon recon- I v i these statements with Increased ff ft shipments of or paper to Mexico Cuba 1 A Chill Chili Argentine ArgentIno and Japan and arv an ar v export of tons of or news print I t 1 paper during the year ear ended June 30 i i ril 1907 1917 in disregard rd of or the con con- ll of or the domestic matl market t.- t. Heretofore newspapers have hae been able to contract for a supply ol ot paper I for two or more years ears and to adjust st their business accordingly At present they are una unable le to get bids for more than one year Jobb Jobbers rs report dIm difficulty culty In obtaining quotations for or nn any p period unless they disclose the names of customers and tho use uso to be made orthe ot or the tile paper When this disclosure Is la lamade made Jobbers fin find that satisfactory quotations can be obtained from only one mill mUt No publisher Is safe when t L mills refuse new or orders ers as some of them have done alone Apart part from the lime Il purely rely legal or 01 technIcal technical tech tech- phases of or th the proposition we canI can I establish to your satisfaction through reports from consuls In Canada on 01 file iu it the Department of Slate State that thea time the a pretexts put forward by paper makers f for their advances In prices are not borne out by the that facts that the cost of at labor has bas not increased to the extent ex cx- tent represented lI by the time paper makers i Figures res printed In the tho Paper Mill 1111 Directory Di Dl- rectory for 1907 show an increase of i only 1 per cent in labor cost of or a news newsprint print paper mill the time increased production production production tion of ot faster running machines and other oUter improvements having hayIng offset the thel I l increased pa pay of or the paper mill emi em em- i in lb mills date not slot one twentieth of or the proposed advance in paper price goes gocs to labor Jabor We Ve can show that news print paper has been recently made an and sold In Canada at 32 32 per ton including profit to mill and mill and that American mills can and do make paper more cheaply than Canadian roms mills by b- breason reason of a better supply of or skilled labor cheaper coal Ii and adequate home homo market for their r r products lower ocean rates and lower to marine Insurance on their exports American mills pay less in the tho first c cost t of their machinery In the cost of ot 1 J. J L t t repairs and maintenance of or machinery In the cost pt pC mill supplies land kind nd Inman Inmany in inmany man many other things Canadian paper mills with A American stockholders have bave been en pay paying g the duty of C G p per ton and have ha undersold A An mills mIlts In the American American Amer Amer- ican market i It Is all right to pit u up the price as high as the traffic will stand as ns asPirate asPirate Pirate Baer Bler said of coal But the man cnn wh who does I It or It-or or or the group of m n- n must be prepared to have haye their graft smashed by the people who who have hav been their victims That Is all I. I r |