Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-10-20
Who Pays tho Tax


Who Pays tho Tax?
II anybody is in doubt as to who pays
the tax on lumber, under the present tariff,
we commend to his attention the following
extract from tho leading article in the Mon
treal Gazette of last Friday:
Approaching the existence of desire in
Canada to obtain free market in tue
neighborns country for our lumber Con
gress induced thereto by shrewd represent
atives Of the American lumber trade, enact
cd n law reducing the duty on pine boards
by 81 per thousand feet, on condition that
the Dominion government abolished the eX-
port duty on all logs; and to make tho prop
osltion effective Congress added threat
that if the Canadian export duty was not
removed the American import duty should
bo made to conform to it, Now, from the
standpoint Of tho American lumber inter
ests, this was undoubtedly a skillful policy,
since without surrender of any advantage
on their part the mill owners OF the United
States werc able to force Canada
10 play into their hands, and to
adopt II limo OF conduct as helpful to
American interests rs it is proving injurious
TO those of the Dominion. In effect and in
fact, We are supplying tie Americans with
the raw acknowledgement which to en-
able them to compete successfully in their
own market with cur manufactured product
and lumber. Many mills along the Georgian
bnv ave today abandoned and standing
/ iIlo through the operation of the short
sighted policy which gives tho American
| lumberman the Same acle.3 tc raw material
as tho Canadian, and at The same time
hapdicaps tho latter in the common market
| by duty Of 81 per 1000 feet
/ Ten years ago, that is to say in 1880,
/ the value of pine and spruce logs exported
| from Canada to the Initsd States was only
| So l53; in 1891 the value of these exports
! was Sl11, Gl5; and in the present fiscal year
/ the value OF these logs sent across to be cut
| up in American mills will probably fall not
much short Of million dollars. This pro-
cess of supp ylng our reighbor5 with raw
| material they cannot elsewhere obtain ought
surely to cease.
| Politics of the French Canadians.
The French Canadians constitute 70 UNI
important part of the population of New
/ England, but comparatively few people
have any adequate idea OF their number
and the part they take in politics. There
are now LOCO coo French Canadians in the
United States, one-halt of whom inhabit the
States OF New England and New York.
They publish several papers aud are divideJ
in politics between the two parties. Fol
several years tho democrats have made {
strong bid for this vote and claimed tina
they were more friendly 10 this element thar
the republicans. l. Independent Of Fel
River, which is u staunch republican paper
and which has the largest circulation of any
among Our French citizens, has taken tin
troublet have an investigation made to dis
cover the truth of the matter. The result i
given in convenient form with the names
nature Of employment aud the place wher,
stationed, AMI the result is haudsom
showing for the republicans.
Some of the tables refer to the number o
French Canadians holding appcintive Of
fees under Arthur, Cleveland and Harri
son, that is, FROM 1855 to 1892. It appear
from these tables that 321 were in Ollie
under Arthur, 1926 under Cleveland and 81
under Harrison. it appears further tina
fifty per cent of these found in Office wer
dismissed or replaced under Cleveland an
there are about City per cent more citizen
of Fronch Canadian birth employed unde
Harrison than under Cleveland. There ar
Indications that an unusually large numle
OF our French citizens will support tho r.
publican ticket this year. They are natur
ally conservative aud they appreciate ID
fact that their prosperity dep Dis upon th
success of the party which fayors protectio
G and sound currency.