Show PRESIDENT LED INTO BLUNDER ON PRINT PAPER SCHEDULE o Oct Taft was led Id into inlo a serious blun tier In the of the tho congress s when lie JIO changed his attitude on the print papel mile Ille according to an open letter ad addressed dressed to lo time the chief ex executive and signed b hr Herman Ridder of Now O York president of the American Newspapers pap rs publishers association Ridders hotter follows ollow i iTo To tim tho president Tim till text or of your at Winona inona lInn Minn on the tariff bill has jU t conic come to hand With the utmost respect we submit that your our state melt the paper schedule shows hows that you could not have hao pon on read or understood what the paper paragraph contained ag a it passed the house of t tiveS es You were apparently misled o by men Into a serious blunder wh when n In the tho closing linn days Of the tariff conference they Ind ced you ou to re your previous attitude upon print paper and changed your no notions of what the Mann committee I recommended and of what the house of representatives had approved TIme The Mann committee after II a ton investigation marled marked 11 by un tin unusual usual thoroughness reported that a arate arate rate of two dollars would cover coer the tho difference in cost or of production at homo home und and abroad The Tho draft proposed absolutely safeguarded sa paper mills against th the serious Cana tHan dlan lm tangle gie on on tile tho tariff question The fixing or Of the rate on print paper at 35 ton which you rou ad advised advised has decided the province of Quebec to lo prohibit the tue exp expOrtation o oIts of Its pulpwood pulp and many paper mills must clOSe chose or moe to Canada to obtain their supplies or of raw material The Tho country IE ia now In a fair Calt way tor or trade war with Canada because of our failure consequent 1 to read the Iann committees recommendations We are threatened with an industrial disturbance which will business interchanges g P with Canada amounting to lo per annum We sincerely trust you cnn can find some method of oC recurring rectifying tho mis mistake take into you ou were led lcd We fully the difficulty difficult anti reo re I s of your exalted and we are trying to 10 do dothe O Otho the tho best bost ou can Wo We know yen OU must rely upon oth others othera ers era for 01 your We ro feci that every citizen is under oblIgation to help you Therefore We this letter to yon ou Yours i Signed iIERMAN HERIAN RIDDER President t American Newspapers 1 Publishers Association |