New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-04
BOSTON VIEWS or TIE TARIFF BILL.

AyIMosIrY or THE "REFoRMERs' TO THE WOOD

! ANIMOSITY or THE PERFORMERS" TO THE WOOD
| PULP wOOLLEN, HEMP AND SALT INDUSTRIES.
| BosToN, March 8 SpeciaD.-Ex- Congressman William
A. Russell the paper manufacturer OF Lawrence, speak
ing OF the tariff bill says thar the paper trade
much surprised at the free listing OF paper pulp. lie
added:
The proposed reduction paper IS uncaed for. the
| dmty now being only 10 per cent unsizel pape
ceeds 40 per cent. suIn movement will fail through
| lis own Inconsistency The proposition to put wood
great surprise TO pulp manufacturers. is and
growing Industry III this country, and IL distinctive III
itself IL requires an expensive plant. immense water
power. heavy and costly machinery and buildings 1t is
the pulp manufacturers finished product, b by no
means the paper manufacturers raw material For 1t
has through the manipulation of labor and expensive
chemical processes reached advanced sta almost to
the point OF paper Itself. Canada, Norway ana Sweden
would the advantages gaiuedby the removal of the
water power capital AMI labor lie ide. The business
has grown rom small beginning In 1870 TO 200 tons per
outlay in plant Of from S7.OOO0O0 20 $l0.0OO,O00
alnouni OF wood To-day farmers are derving profit
from poplar trees that are OF little for anything but
wood pulp. large amount OF wood pulp Is made from
spruce The free listing OF wood pulp will result In
sending the capital now employed here TO foreign coun,
tries. where WORKS will lie put up and the manufactured
pulp sent here duty free
The whole bill Is strangely constructed Both parties
the Ways aud Means Committee the revision Of tho
tariff in 1888 agreed thar 1t advisable do away.
far possible with al valc duties and the tariff
was made mp 10 that end They propose
that policy and TO aggravaie the annoying question OF
undervainatons. In fact they seem TO offer every
means 10 throw our market open ~ the world
LITTLE HOPE FOR wOoLLRS MANUFACTURES.
The proposed change in the tariff wool ana woollen
manufactures 10 pronounced absurlity BY Mr. Hard
Ing. of the Arlington wosllcn Mills. He says,
1t utterly ruins the wool growers. The woolen
although they are placed at great dsadyantsss. do
not sec why the committee made the change In the
wanted IT, We wished Tor rcctfcaton of the existing
farm, ana the farmers wanted the arf on wool raised
There Was bal feature under the old tarf which still
exists in that 1t admits fine grade worstod goods at
lower classification than woolien goods When the tafin
wors,eds They had not begun lie manufactured. To
day these articles should 20 into the classification
INJURY TO THE HEMP AND FLAX TRADE
Ross, Turner & Co. arc among the largest fax and
hemp dealers In Boston Mr.. Turner VINO has gwen
much attention to the statistics of the trade says:
regard tho free listing of manufactured hemp as a
fully played by house that could mention when is
interested IN getting English fax line IN here duty flee
hemp and fax are admitted free But this IS not
hes ,he heinp ana max clause =" fax straw. fax not
TOW OF na1 or hemp hemp manila Substitutes
ior hemp e,c tSow hackled fax dressed fax line
IS distihcllvely manufactured article and employs
large number OF men, whose labor ia almost entirely
f haa ~ nefe large number of great linen
WIN uhdonotcdy dismiss all their lacklers and rougheis
ana import their line direct from abroad.
WHAT FREE SALT MEANS
One OF the largest buyers OF salt n Boston IA Charles
L. Davenport He saws his personal preference Is for
Free Trade for he could mako more money with salt
duty free than with Protection But free salt means
destruction to great American Industry and defeat
the party that forces 1t upon the people 1t will surely
cost more VOTES I'D the Warsaw and Genesce Valleys Ia
New York than Rum, R,manism and Rebellion "
Burchard gave IN YORK State There is good deal
OF tax about tue lax on salt upon the poor man Why,
cents That Is nothing family consumes one tuird
oil an ounce OF s' per capita per day That Is III
ounces or less than pounds am certain
that tue admission 81 salt Tree wifi great industry
csmpete- for fish preservation