The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-11-29

very few city or country dealers-they are
ali carried by the mills-would dare to
buy a British Columbia cargo"
1t beng suggested to Captain Simpson
that present conditions would not be per-
manent he remarked: They can fix it
until The next administration, and then it
Will be changed"
do YOU mean the tariff would be re-
stored ?"
''Of course it will. The country would
not stand it two years. The truth is we
have to provide for too many laborers. 1t
is safe TO assume that out OF the half
million Immigrants who come to us every
year at least 100. 600 are laborers. We have
To furnish employment for Them, and we
rial is taken off. IL immigrants would
stop coming we might adjust ourselves
comfortably 10 reduced tariff. but so long
as they keep coming we must provide for
them"
The Pacific Pine Lumber Company had
anticipated the report of The committee
published in yesterdays CALL. This
company controls the product of the fol-
lowing mills on Puget Sound. who's Sc daily
capacity exceeds 1,500, coo feet of lumber:
The Washington Mill Company, Hadlock;
Port Discovery Mill Company. Port Dis
eovery; Puget Mill Company, Port Gam
bic. Port Ludlow and Utsalady. Port
ley Mill Company, Port Biakeley; Tacoma
Mill Company, Tacoma; also the Grays
HaIbor Mil Company, Cosmopolls.
Said L. Nj. Herrick. president Of the
company:
-Four years ago Chicago, the greatest
lumber market in the world, looked to
Canada for logs, which were to be sawed
on this side, and there was strong lean
ing on the northern border toward free
lumber. About The same time the yellow
pine industry of the South was started on
big scale. Abundant capital was in
vested and The development throughout
the Gulf States was phenomenal. Yellow
pine is now standard in Chicago. the
same as -four. The South, which leans
toward free trade, is as much stirred up
over the removal of duty from lumber as
We areas much as Alabama is over free
iron and Tennessee over free coal. They
favor protection of their own Industries
ard we are satisfied that our great effort
TO preserve the tariff on lumber Will come
from the South. AT a national convention
of Observation-Disclosures held in Wash
ington, d. c., in March, 1892, in which 80
per cent of Southern interests were repre-
sented, a resolution was adopted demand
ing a restoration of the duty OF 81
thousand on white pine which the Nc
kinley tariff had reduced to 81"
On the 22d inst. the Pacific Pine Lumber
Company addressed a communication to
the Ways and Means Committee of Con-
gress which, in addition to other important
matters that are well known here, con-
tanned an argument showing how the re-
moval of the tariff on lum Der would work
great hardship on American shipping. 1t
said:
The shipping ports OF British Columbia are
adjacent to those on the American side ana no
farther distant fr ON points OF consumption,
whether shipments are by the way OF the Pa
q domestic OaSI ~ rail IN
the Eastern States. The American mill-owner
Is by the laws Of the nation compelled 10 use in
The cOasIing trade tonnage OF American regis
ter exclusively, while II our domestic Ikrts
are opened 10 the mills of British Columbia
without restriction the owners on that side
would have the choice OF all flags in their car
rlers. thus 10 all lntenS and purposes lnterject-
ing foreign bottoms into the coasung trade,
though technically the voyage is from foreign
port.
Analogous conditions exist in the relation OF
the lumber manufacturers and shippers of
Maine TO those OF the provinces east of that
Stale. While the markets Of the Middle, West
ern and Eastern States that the Pacific Coast
manufacturers are now cutivatlng would be
divided with British Columbia, and The ship
ments TO points closest to destination on tile
Canadian border be made over a foreign rail-
road, built ana subsidized By foreign capital
(parallellng competing roads on the merle n
Slde) TO The exclusion OF traffic desired by and
due TO the transcontinental roads in the United
States.
a gain, the stimulation of the lumber indu stry
of this coast is great aid 10 the development
of Its merchant marine. During the depression
in the ship-buildlng industry In other parts of
the United 81 ates such industry has been fairly
active on this coast and It's fostering is of more
Than local Importance, inasmuch a majority
of vessels OF recent construction are carrying
our flag to foreign ports, where IL has been
hitherto almost unknown. The effect OF per-
mitting foreign tonnage, built and run at lower
cost, TO invade the codStDg trace would be the
same as upon American deep-wateI shipping
now practically driven from he seas, as aso TO
effectually end as an industry shlp-bulldlng on
this coast.