Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-01-12
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JN&N - Was#A kAsz NJ &&zx4F - az a4f&t Mt&*y
aid deeply inscsessed, VIZ: The repeal "
the dnky On imported paper. The cost OF
printing paper has advanced TO a price
during the present year, that threatens
seEioasly TO snbarrass, it not actually
70 ruin, the newspaperE basaness-s Hove
TO stop ibis risps and t9 obtain eheaper
stpFins' is the important problem 10 pc
solved. II publishers should Increase
their Subscription rates TO correspond
With the sdssfce in 'tprins,n the price
would be FIRE dollars per year for week
lies, and twenty dollars for dailies. But
10 dc this ID 10. sacrifice thelg eireula-
tion. as tbs pahlie would not RaS those
cbafwes. Some publishers have soaght
. little aIleviatiou by rsdncing the size BIT
their sheets, while others have been for,
ED 20 suspend publlcAsiun, and anleas
something can be donssE 70 cheapsa aprins,s
many more journals sEil Be Obliged 20
suecunnh. ~
For ssseral years before, and one ysas
after the war begaa, newa print sold for
9so 10 cents per p lund. The next yaar
ID rose to IL 10 Is senla. During the Ord
year 1t advanced to Is TO IL cents when
gold vas but little higher than now
During tho past eight months Ii has
bounded up so24 10 D asn4s, and pub
|4ishesa are threatensa With sfitl higher
prices Whas is the "a ass Of this enos-
nous advance Of nearly 100 per cent. dus
ring the present year, and Of $50 per cent
on the price of 1857 Rags, tow, old
rope and bleaching powders are cheaper
nov than last year, and straw, which now
largely enters into the manafactuss OF
paper, is not q Tsry sear;e Or dear ard
Gle.
Careful investigation conTinees the an
dersignsi that. nriat'3 oan be manafas
tured 1t prast of ar or ssfsn fcenss per
pound less than the fnifis charge. The
present exhorbitant prices are the reauls
Of q combination Of eastern mills, "a
charge, not what they can afford to sell
for, bat for what it would cost publish
ess to import paper fran abroad, and
pay the 70 per cent. gold duty which the
lag sxaets- Paper 5of q better quality
than the domestic article can be hid down
10 New York from Europa, Eor Ii TO Id
cents per pound in currency hut whsa
the % per eens tariff is added, the dif-
ference between the cost AMI the e1mbiha.
ton prices Is not sufficient to induce tbs
merchants to import, especially as it 10 ia
the power of the inoroplists, by abating d
pert Of their enormous profits, to under
sell them. So long as the combination
lasts, there is 40 prospect of "a fall in
| 'sprintn and il certainly sill last "a ii Chs
duty ID removed. Relief can only be bad
therefore, av removing tse ilnp0sg 90 thu
imported article.
fhe object of this letter is to reauesI
you to write your Representative In Con
gross, and your Senators, ID vote for tha
repeal Of the duty forthwith. A comnit-
tee of publishers will proceed 10 Wash
| ingtoa 10 mske persona! efforts in tina
behalf but unless the Publishers geusE-
ally, shaA exert ahsir inaaenoe 10 che VA
suggested, tho efforts Of the .eanmitta'
may fab to overcome the opposing
strength Of paper makers combination
| At the last session they managed to do
feat the application of the publishers III,
| 4 repeal and celebrated their victory b,
advancing their prices about ten cent
per pound. This xiater, publishers mus
make more aniteds resolute Bort 10 ex
| tricate themselves from the jaws II th
| monopoly which is sucking their blood.N-
The issue is one in ahich I'LL publisher
are deeply Interested, and they Must &c
togeshss snsrgesihal!s. The pres ha
great power, waen welded in sslf dsfene
and in just cause, aad now is the. tim
to exert q little of ii. Publishers ma
be assured that the eastern paper makers
combination will never again sell Ut low
or rates than imported "priuts cost
which, as We have stated, Is - per cen
above fair profit.
The Governments has no interest IN pre-
serving the % per cent. gold duty ~
derives no revenae tharefrom, because a
print paper Ia imported, The nanufAS
turers tx their prices jGsa al that fguI
which leaves no margin Of certain prot
10 the importer. bat gobblesn she
per cent. Of duty. The government Is .
immense Consumer Of papers and it dos
J not purchase abroad OF course II Ena
pay the monopoly prices. Thus, inssea
of obtaining q revenue from the daty,
gets nothing, and 10 actually obliged
: par % psr oent. higher for Its owa pap
than IL would it shers were no Lmposs
print.
II may be affsdged BY paper NAL er
that rags have advanced 30 mRrh, tia
they cannot afford TO manufacture |
cheaper prices. Bus we reply, thai col
ton and linen are as dear in Europe as
America, and as much affected by OF
var, and rags should be worth no MOI
, here than there's jet iii a notorious ia
that sprint" never was cheaper nor MOI
abundant in Europe than this year 1t
sold TO publishers in Great Britain, Itall
France, Germany and Holland, as 8 cen
per poand In coin. How uareas0neb
: aad wrongful, then, that print she'd COZ
~ csnss in currency Ia America.
IL rags are hsgh in this country shs con
binatgou have made them SO, bat the
will speedily fall when the 20 per cen
, fmposs 10 taken OF. Let few cargo,
of foreign PAGER be Imported duty ire
relieving the American market OF the q
Il lodged ovsrdetnasd, aud fsrtAwish shsl
: will hala deSsiaa 10 rage sid good priE
] will become abundant in the east 81
! and 10, and atthc wcst, al l6 to II cen
! per pound, and the manufacturers 10 cor
] sequence Of the fail 10 the price of rag
will still realize profits, large enough
J satisfy reasonable capitalists the gn'
} ernment viii savs large sumo BY gettiu
cheaper paper, and publishers wiz !
{ able ~ sonsinas their business wlshoi
rain staFiag them ia the faes.
: The pxesans q tax 90 kHewledge"
more aisehiavons and oppressive than
! post or excise laid on any other bfaas
! 81 business. Sound policy f0rbias onel
Gus saxss on kncwlsags- The goseE'
ment Of Great Brisaia kss wlsalg refno'
9 cd almost all saxea on newspapers 81
2 2 periodicals., and made the disseminate
) OF public information as. cheap and fr
a. possible. Shall our model republics
!, gOvernsncns be behind any OF the kingdom
: Of tbs old world Ia this regagdf