New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-26
PAPER AND THE TARIFF.
GROWTH OF TRADE SINCE THE LAST CENSUS
EX-SENATOR MILLER SHOWING THE RESULT OF
DUTY IN cHEAPENING PRODUCTIVE Ma
TIoNAL ASSOCIATION CONGRATULATED
ON THE IMPossIBIITY OF PASS.
ING THE MILLS BILL

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Saratoga July 25-Ex-Senator Warner Miller made
a notable speech bearing upon the Mills bill before
tho American Paper Manufacturers Association al
tho annual meeting of that association here to-day
lie is a manufacturer of paper, and, therefore, Is
well acquainted with the cost OF making IL ana what
would be the effect upon the paper Industry OF the
passage by both branches of Congress OF the NILS
BILL which reduces the duty upon writing, BOOK,
news coated. fancy, and box paper. Indeed, the
duty upon almost all kinds of paper Is reduced EN-
Lieutenant Byron weston, of Dalton, Mass,
president of the association, which Is Na'ionh
organization, was in the chair. Among paper manu-
facturers present were Henry b. May, of the May
Pancr Company, of Lee, Mass. +. T. Phillips, repre-
senting Harrison Brothers Co., OF Ncw-fork'
CLAYTON H. DeLano, of the Ticonderoga Pulp and
Paper Company; Eugene II. Clapp OF the Pcnooscot
Chemical Fibre Company; George W. Miar, OF Now
York. James H. Newton, of the Wancgan Paper
Company, Holyoke Mass; Benjamin Hesei, OF John
L. Rlegel & Son, of the Warren Manufacturing Oohi
pany; Thomas II. Lavery, of the York Haven Paper
Comnany: f. H. Parks OF tho Glenn Fails Paper
Manufacturing Company; c. G. Weeks, OF SHANE
a;eles C. H. Mead, of the Salmon RIVER Paper
Company, Malone; William Roberts, oil "ai'han'
Mass Lorn Allen, Of Allen Brothers, T. o. NroAor'
of the Croker Manufacturing Company, OF HoHoAo'
r. NJ Fairfield of the Fairfield Paper Company N l.
Pulsipher, of the oakland Paper Company, MANCHESTER,
Conn, and many others Ex-senator Mlier sa'u
In part $780, a
remember that 1879 a number OF free taoers anu
the representatives free traders among the
went to Washington determined to reduce u" Jug i
printing paper especially and to put wood pup ""'
was then new industry upon the free list took some
mart in combating them for which received conu
ton from the newspapers and thus seeueu ~
alias Of Wood Pulp Miller. l have said that consul
cred that title only title have TO nooly' 'here
&c any such thing in country but 1t indicated thaC
had done one thing in hfe If nothing else 1heieioro
hayo never objected the title and prefer 10 ho Oh "
It as long as 1 remain in the trade II you reIrs"O
the pce of paper that Tine in the winter OF 100 an"
1870 fair news paper was selling at nine cents pou
With other papers prOporonately higher. TOOK o''
sion TO say 10 Ways and Means Committee IN speech
nnade before it. they would leave the duty where IL
was that my knowledge of the business am r'iH
the inventions that being made and from the I'M
proyemcns trade it would not be I'VE years oeo'
the price Of paper would much lower than 1t was then
and paper would be high again in this country III
our dy that the question teen solved Iut tnat we
required years bring the business TO peiiecuo
The WAYS Means took action nor aid the HOUSE
Of Representatives We left the matter where 1T was
with duty Of from Is 20 per cent on paper and from
10 70 90 per cent on pulp The result has more
than realized what promised Within ten years Time
news paper been reduced from to and IL cents
poun1, depending the quality, and the quay Is MUM
better There is no possibility of important rise the
price OF pare- We al believe prices tne lower
than they should be- but it has been brought ABOUT py
the maintenance tariff and the inventive genius OF
trade and home competition The maintenance OF the
tariff paper therefore, has resulted I'D the ceapNhs
Of the product protected
yocc-what has been the result of the reduction of
he duty wood pulp in 1888
Senator Miler-Of course at this time cannot fully
state the duty wood pulp reduced from 20 per
cent TO 10 per The result has been largely to In
crease importation wood pulp from Sweden ana Nor
way much OF which been of inferior quality, hut
been used then in the Senate and consented
to this reduction and partly responsible for IT, did
not antagonlge other interests and did not de-
maintain the duty this article higher than we
required am frank say that believe, had the
duty maintained 20 per cent instead Of being re-
duced per cent would have led TO the building OF
mills and instead Of importing wood pvl2 nom Swe-
den and Norway Canada all require would have le'n
made here. Of better quality ana would have given en-
poynent large amount Of capital and many men, and
wOcd have led working forests and wood
II duty had been maintained tho mills would have
been built the price Of wood pulp would not have
been higher think it mistake, but having been
made. IL perhapo cannot now bc corrected We Iator
under the disability Norway and Sweden OF paying
times much for skilled labor they pay
there l intended TO have brought with scale Of
wages paid In Germany. Ny partner, Mr.. Paestreker
WIN is abroad Few weeks the scales
OF wages rall in several Of the important mills Of Ger
many ard Sweden. and l fad that paying three
and four times much they paying there. The
maintenance du,y paper has produced the modern
cheap newspaper Whether good has come GU, of that
leave 10 news,dier sometimes have my
doubts when look at a sixteen paeo newspaper
The tariff has also brought about the production Of soda
ttb NllnOut winch you cannot make paper we nave
established its manufacture. We also maintained
the duty alum, another ingredient OF papcfmaking.
and the result has been establish manufactures
here see alum has been put the free list by the
Mills bill. The result will be the that
industry Bleaching powder is the free list. and
have to pay high price the English makers for It,
We pay so per cent for 1t than Fair duty
paid. The duty would temporarily raise the price Of
bleaching powder the industry would be established and
the price would be lowered.
Governor Weston also asked to talk labor ami |
capital but we have had strike in trade.
There has been none in NY business have asked
self why this when there strikes trades
have asked myself the There has been such
thing general reduction wages trade ten
years Our wages are as high were paid during the
or know that the purchasing power OF
money is greater In the with which / |
connected have made it almost requirement that
man should own his house. We have lent them money |
long time for the purchase Of house This system is
general throughout the trade The result is
facurer and the employe close together The
plOye becomes taxpayer believe it has become uni
yersal in trade that when cmpoye is in trouble he
goes to his employer and tells him That is
In the larger trades. j should feel that passing
Of sympathy with my IL they anywhere else
believe this is the system. The idea that
workman should be left alone and merely paid Is
the Of the dsanecon OF laborr They become IN
different and there is only step from that to crime
and the result is great injury to the enpoYe and the
poyer.
Z. c. Rogers, OF Holyoke, Mass, then elected
president Of the association for the coming year and
other officers elected. Edwin 4. Hartshorn OF
Troy organizer Of tho American Protective League,
said that he had obtained $50 signatures TO his list
Of members of the American Protective League. There
were Great many Democrats u.on the rolls.
We are getting thousand defenders Of tho pro-
tective tariff said Mr. Hartshorn " and let me tell
you that the demand for protective tariff literature
enormous. From the third Thursday in June until
the third Thursday in July distributed 100000
pages Of protective tariff literature In the single year
Of our existence, distributed more tariff literature
than the Golden Club Of England has IN the twenty
t%o years OF its existence"
Secretary Rogers read the following report of the
Tariff Committee of the association that has been in
v ashin.ton fighting the Mills bill: