The San Francisco call., 1896-08-04

There has been widespread interest IN
THE CALLS recent exposure OF the tree
trade fallacies OF Democracy, and OF
William Jennings Bryan In particular.
On the Wool Exchange few days ago
everv dealer but one in company OF
nearly hundred representative business
mon Endorsed THE CALLS articles showing
tbat Clevelandlsm has killed the sheep
Growing interests of America. There is
eouaI interest in the present series of
articles on lumber, which show what a
bIiebt has followed in the path OF Bryan
ism as applied to the lumber industry.
Those who have been interested in
studying the disaster and general ruin
wrought by free trade in the wool and
lumber industries Of the United States,
and particularly on the Pacific Coast, VIII
be pleased to read further on the subject
and study the history of the destruction of
the lumber industry more in detail than
appeared in the first article on the subject,
was published in yesterdays CALL.
1t was the immortal Lord Bacon, founder
of the inductive method of reasoning, who
first taught the world to reserve conclu-
sions until thorough examination OF
facts. The student of the times the man
anxious to know why things are as they
are, should keep clear of the dreamy rhet-
oric of Bryan and study the facts of every
day life. These facts are not to be found
in the mouthings OF politicians and the
rawlings of eccentric pamphleteers, but they
are in the reports made in cool blood by
men of affairs.
One of the strongest points in favor of
the position of Mckinley and the Repub-
lican party as against the sophistries of
Democracy and Bryan was made by the
Pacific Pine Lum mber Company of San
Francisco in recent reply to the Com
mittee on Ways and Means of the United
States Senate, then engaged in inquiring
into the condition of various industries as
affected by the tariff. Among other things
the company said:
To the Honorable Ways and Means Committee
OF the House Of Representatives, Washington,
d, C.-GENTLEMEN: The lumber trade of the
Pacific Coast engaged in the manufacture OF
Douglas Fir commonly termed Oregon pine),
spruce and cedar lumber, noting per newspa-
per publication and otherwise, the disposition
OF your honora Bile committee 10 place lumber
on the free list in the proposed modification OF
the tariff, view such possibility with the gray
est apprehension, and this company having
bhhSn III dCl4Nt luleIeSb III LHlS qu6SlIOu III
1888, is requested 10 submit to your honorable
committee the conditions of the lumber trade,
and the effect of such action, with especial re-
gard to the situation on this coast ana its re-
lation to British Columbia, on the north.
In such direction it premises by assuming
that the only justification that can be alleged
for removing the duty on lumber is, either a
limited supply within the territory of the
United States (and accessible to its people,, or
possibility that the present standing timber
may, in holdings, be concentrated in the
hands OF few, with the effect OF unfairly
raising the prices to the consumer. In refuta-
ton Of such allegations it would respectfully
submit that the most casual investigation will
determine the non-existence OF the first as a
fact, or the second as a potentislity.
A few years ago the first of the above-name ed
positions had emphasis from the very great in
roads made upon the standing timber OF the
northern frontier of the United States, with
the coincident apprehension that the continu-