Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-05-13
Ne Free Wood PUN.

The Canadian manufacturers OF
wood pulp, represented by n Com
mittee on Free Pulp" headed by John
Morris, the business manager of New
York free trade newspaper, have been
active in trying to secure free trade for
this product of Canadian mills. This
committee has just sent out a circular
to publishers throughout the country
urging them to write to members of
Congress, and especially to members
Of the United States Senate, advocat-
ing free trade ia wood pulp, which Is
used in the manufacture of paper. At
ter admitting ''that the entire revenue
received from the Government last
year was sos, 2S2; and, therefore, that
mo serious question of national econ
omy or threatening deficits can be
urged in opposition to free pulp" the
committee then attempts to show the
great Importance of this proposition In
favor of popular education through
newspapers. 1t is admitted in this cir
cular that the proposed duty Of $1.66
per ton is practically equal to the pres
ent duty of 10 per cent. al valorem,
but the al valorem duty gives the i'm
porter a chance for differentiation;
and the free-trader Is always in search
of an opportunity for fraud of some
kind either by importatiOns or by fraud
upon American industry.
The appeal of the Committee on
Free Pulp" will not prevail, and the
protection granted by the Dingley bill,
| as referred to above, will be imposed
| in the tariff of 1897.
Mr.. Cleveland IL Heard From.
| Ex-President Cleveland Is a good one
| to talk about protecting the fair fame
| of our nation against shame and
| scandal" This Is the expression of
| the opening sentence of his New York
speech, at which he and a handful Of
| his followers made an attack upon the
Republican party for carrying out the
principles laid down in its platform.
If Mr.. Cleveland had recounted the
scandals of his own administration,
the sugar-trust scandal, the bond scan
dial. the Chicago Lake Front scandal,
the foreign policy scandal, and num-
| beers of others which might be mention
ed, his speech would have been a good
deal longer and much more interest
| ing. AS it.was, he devoted 1t to abus-
ing the Republican party because it is
giving its first attention to carrying
out the pledges of Its platform, pro-
| tective tariff, an effort for interna-
tional bimetallism, and the full main
tenance Of the present safe standard
of our currency.
Wilson ON the Wool Schedule.
For a man who Is not the author of
the tariff law of 1894 Mr.. Wilson is IN
necessarily disturbed over the radical
departure from its policy as embodied
in the wool schedule of the Dingley
bill. 1t is true that Mr.. Wilson gener-
ally enjoys the distinction of having
constructed the worst tariff bill In the
history of our Government, but this Is
not entirely fair to Mr.. Wilson, for no
one can predict with absolute and un-
erring certainty just what would have
been the result IL Mr.. Wilson's tarifi
bill had been adopted as he framed It.
No one can accurately calculate just
how many years 1t would have taken
to recover from the panic II Mr.. VII
sons bill had become a law without
the 403 amendments which the Senate
under the advice of Jones and German
tackled onto it.-Chicago Times-Herald
C1eveiaud's Combinations.
AS the doctrine Of free trade rests
on phrases, SO the messages and
speeches of ex-President Cleveland