Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-11-01

rice growers In the south, and, worst
of all, it robs the laboring mans fam
lily of many of the comforts and
necessaries of life. 1t creates great
corporations that, like the devil fish,
reaches out their many terrible arms
and suck the life blood from the peo-
pie Of this country. 1t Discriminate
in favor of the rich, and it grinds the
laborer down into poverty and makes
his life burden. II takes the bread
from his children it deprives them
of needed necessaries of life, and it is
a curse to the people and blight on
the country.
In speaking Of lumber, the Senator
predicted that if the nearly Is per
cent. protective tariff was removed,
that the terrible Canadian lumber
men would destroy the American
lumbermen that the mills would
cease saving lumber; that thousands
of men would be thrown out of en-
ployment, and lot of similar non
sensical rubbish, such as would be an
insult to insinuate that sensible peo-
pie would believe.
The almost unanimous report of
lumbermen is that the lumber in this
vicinity will only last about ten years,
and that the supply Of lumber in
Michigan and other numbering States
will last about the same time. The
fact is pretty evident that the days of
numbering are numbered, and the
great question that is now agitating
the minds of thoughtful men, is how
to make the lumber last, and what is
to take its place. The people of Can
ada are also alarmed at the rapid de-
struction of their forests. The lum-
Der in that country can not last many
years longer, and the people there are
not ut all anxious to destroy their
forests just for the purpose of over
flowing the American lumber market
If they had the disposition, they have
not got the lumber to do so. Canada
alone is not able to supply the Amer
lean lumber market, and her lumber
men are just as anxious to get big
prices as are the Americans. In 1881
Canada exported lumber, timber and
wood to the amount of 81, 100000
and of the lumber exported, from 81
to 96 per cent entered the United
States. If the small balance left had
come, it would not have affected the
market, 50 great is the demand for
lumber in the United States.
To supply the lumber markets of
the United States requires n good
many billions of feet of lumber, and
the Chicago market alone, in 1881,
received the enormous amount of
one billion eight hundred and fifty
millions five hundred and forty-two
thousand feet of lumber and 1884,
421 900 shingles. The question of
the day among people interested in
the welfare of the people, is how to
lessen the exhaustive demand on the
diminishing forests. The
statement of Senator Conger about
the Canadian lumbermen driving out
the Michigan lumbermen, is an in
suit to the latter.
The Senator tried to explain the de-
feat of his party in Ohio last month,
and among other things stated that
there was rejoicing in h over the
Democratic victory. This is some
thing that Democrats have no per-
sonal knowledge of, but as the Sena-
tor seemed to be acquainted with
what was going on in that region,
and if his statement is correct, it
shows reformation is going on in the
of Satan, when the fends
there can rejoice at the fact that the
people of Ohio have won battle
with the monopolists, who have rem
dered the people desperate by reason
of the heavy and oppressive protec-
tive tax burdens laid upon them.
The Senator declared that the River
and Harbor bill was just and right,
He defended it, upheld it, and de-
nounced those who opposed it. He
said they did not vote a cent to a
place unless it was recommended by
their engineers. Now the facts of the
case are that no person objects to those
for places that are of
national Importance. The objection
is against taxing the whole nation for
merely local improvements. No per-
son objects to appropriations for i'm
provements, actually necessary, to the
harbors of New York, Boston, Buff
falo, Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago, for
the Mississippi, for Rivers st. Clair
and Detroit, for the Saginaw, and for
similar places, but the people object
to the millions appropriated for I'M
navigable creeks, for ports of no
and those given merely
so that certain favorites of the Con-
gressmen may have fat jobs, and the
legislators receive in return
votes.
Let it be remembered that all these
expenses made by Congress are paid
by taxation on the people, and that
nearly the whole is paid by the labor
ing people when they buy clothing,
matches, hardware, crock
cry, glass, leather, etc.
In another column will be found an
extract from a sermon delivered by
the Rev. Talmage, in which he states
what he knows about the River and
Harbor bill, and the following will
show what some of the taxes are being
squandered for:
Col. Geo. Bliss of this town, says the n.
Y. Sun, has taken the trouble to go behind
the items of the River and Harbor bill
passed at the late session. lie has examn-
ed the record of previous appropriations,
the estimates and recommendations of the
government engineers, and the general
merits of the works in question. The result
of his labors lies before us in the shape Of
a very interesting pamphlet. He utterly
the plea of the iobbinp Con-