Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-06-21

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together running out 1868 miles OF paper
16 inches wide every tWenty-four hours.
Include the mills out on the Wisconsin
river. forty miles inland and this prod
uct of one days labor will stretch out
100 miles, or in Il year put twenty Slf-
dies Of white paper around the CLONE NJ
the equator or Il paper cork-ScreW around
old Earth from one pole TO the other.
And yet one might till all these miles OF
paper and still ask for more to write
down the complaints Of the people against
the Democratic party that was to BRING
in the golden age Of labor by paralyZlng
such industries as this, because the men
who control them are "robber barOns,
paying good wages because OF protection.
''The Mckinley law placed higher
duty on PRINT paper, and even tempted
the great saint of tariff reform, Grover
Cleveland. and his friends into the FOX
river valley to take advantage Of Me
Kinleyism, Wisconsin water power and
Wisconsin spruce, to lay up treasures IN
wood pulp. 1t was just about the tune
the Mckinley bill was framed, and While
Grover Cleveland was denouncing 1t as
me greatest crime OF the age that the
Manufacturing Investment company OF
New York WAS organized with William
G.. Whitney as president. and Dan La
mont, Don Dickinson and Grover Cleve-
land among the stockholders, to manu-
facture sulphite pulp here at Appleton.
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ready to take advantage OF the tariff OF
81 a ton which the Mckinley bill placed
on bleached chemical wood pulp. They
were like that other apostle OF free trade,
Tom l.. Johnson, of Cleveland, o., who
would not allow his anta@Cnsm to Nc
I\inleyism prevent him from enjoying the
benefits and adding to his surplue by tax
ing the best possible position under the
folds of the flag of protection.
''protection, water power, spruce tor
ests. and the secret of wood pulp have
planted $1O,GOo.GOO in paper and pulp
mills along the five miles OF this mill
race called the Fox river, which is sup
piled and regulated by the big mill pond,
80 miles long and II miles wide, called
Winnebago lake. This combination has
also planted S3,0Oo.OOO in paper and
pulp mills on the Wisconsin river. max
ing a total of S13,OOO.OOo invested IN
this industry in the Eighth Congressional
! district of Wisconsin. These mills have
turned out about go tons of paper and
$50 tons of pulp every tWenty-four hours,
and the product of each day Is Valued Ut
nearly $4,000. In all the work lncldent
to making of ton Of paper or pulp II
is estimated that there is employment
for twenty men. so that the paper and
pulp industry OF this section of Wlscon>
sin has given labor to more than li,OOO
men. in the forest cutting the spruce, IN
the rafting and on the railroads, III the
mills. and in handling the product.
but a little matter of employment Tor
1000 men. the investment OF Sl3,OOo,-
! 600, a product valued at SoO.OOO day,
and 100 miles of paper to suppl! the
printing presses every day is lnslgnln-
cant to Congressman Barnes and the
Democratic party, which is arrayed
against intelligence.
"All these mills have been running
night and day the year round, paving
good wages and keeping the mics OF
white paper constantly rolling OUT, Wltl,-
out being able to supply the demanu.
Last year they did not suffer, because the
Worlds fair made an extra demand 1or
print paper but this year they have had
to cut wages. and they are sending thelr
| samples to Europe and trying to compete
with the English and German paper
manufacturers just because they cannon
find a ready market for all Their paper at
! home. They can keep the mills running
all the time easier than half the time and
they can afford to sell paper in Europe at
| 4 sacrifice to secure the trade and TO get
rid of the surplus. But the properties
| have deprecated i'll value, and one old
paper manufactures said that those MUS
| would not today sell for one-half what
! they cost, or would have sold for III 1917,
simply because the determined warfare
| of the Democratic party on the manllac-
turers of the country has destroyed the
confidence of the people III TINS business
| as we'll as every other.
1.-Two years ago George Conrad, one of
the largest German paper manufacturers
at Breslau visited the Fox River Paper
mills to study the American improve
ments. and while here he made COM
parison of wages paid by German paper
| makers and American paper-makcrs. lie
furnished the figures that represented
wages paid by himself. and Peter Thorn
| furnished the figures paid in the kimber-
ly & Clark company mills. of which he is
superintendent. These figures were as fol-
| lows: