The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1864-12-23
.. n.,,-.. Prinring paper.

} Is at last likely to adopt some meas
Eor the repealof the daty on printing
i. and, as this is a subject which CON
! the public at large quite as mu l',il
affects the publishers Of newspapers
I'm not be inappropriate for us TO
I ont to our readers the wisdom OF
proposed repeal. s.e.ss 50.
lore the war, the manufacturers
I of printing paper was from nine to
Ients DER pound. During the second
after hostilities began, it rose to
Ce or thirteen cents; during the third
t;t rose TO fifteen or sixteen cents;
fduring the past year and a half it
advanced to from twenty-fonr TO
ty-seven cents, and aistill higher
,2is threatened. The cause OF TINS
llous increase is, in part, owing 10
Expectation of the currency and con-
HI high price of manufacturers ma
", but is mainly in consequence OF a
Enation of the large paper dealers to
|Elp the price and make large profits
Z stated in the House of Represent
d last Wednesday, that a paper mill
nois was paying to its owners a
n Of forty per cent. on their invest
Hand, as the cost Of manufacturing
che prices charged are everywhere
q the same, tits fair to conclude that
q paper mills are making the same
profit.
remedy for oppressive exactions
IN article OF trade is usually
i in its importation from abroad
this case the duty demanded by the
8kment is so high as to. prevent I'M
Non, and thus leaves the consumers
Or entirely at the mercy OF the
&cturers. According to the reve-
~. the duty OH printing paper Is
I'D twenty per cent draiere"' paya-
IA IN gold. Betterpaper than thai
Nhciured in tlis country can he I'M
~ from Europe and sold IN New
8sih, a fairlrotit, at q seventeen OF
e II cents per pound, i'll currency
ben the twenty per cent gold duty
Ian ipn,ortefs caiBioi afford 10 COM
4th manufacturers here, and so, no
Is imported, the government re-
( borevenue and conslmnersare com
|e pay as high prices as the manu-
Us chose to extort. idesderlvlng
Inue from the importation OF pa
government itself Suffers from
n Necessarily high prices. During
ID year the printing bureanl was
kfeh to pay more than half mil
3klars more than il, should, in con-
se of the piohibitoryi duty ON pa
Notion and linen rags, straw, and
Eng powder and all the other ma
|Ased in the manufacture Of paper
much iatR,wopeas they do here,
( ~ paper is abundant there at eight
" VI pound in coin.
tisonsequence of the exhorhitaht
S2emanded here, is seen in the sus-
'y of many publications which
~ unerly furnished at living rates.
all publishers have advanced
stsltes somewhat, but the advance
lo means kept pace with the i'll
& expense To do this, newspaper
d {jlors must sacrifice their subscrip-
lie almost entirely, because the
III, will not pay the advance. The
8lfthis state of things is, that there
N few, if any, newspapers now
4 I'd in this country, whose appro-
/ ~. evenues equal their expendi-
la great many of them intlict a
tss upon their proprietors.-
,Fhis number may he mentioned
k< York Tribune, whose large cir
E1t aud extensive government pat
tM.o not save it from an actual
.Ks, according to the publishers
\ hement, .'s
sst cordially join with our breth-
a. press everywhere in urging
ITalgress that modification, OF the
9(t 8law which will enable ~ to buy
Htf printing paper at lower rates
= are unnecessarily compelled to
|kit the domestic article. and we
;<5ffpecially commend the subject to
4 stion of members of Congress
e own State. This is a matter in
( {h are interested, for, unless some
.f,ke relief is granted, the price Of
u apers must be raised to a point
ae reach IF the classes of people
them most. We trust that
IN be had upon the subject at an