Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-01-07
The LUMBER l,li TRAFFIC.

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The lumbermen have not for.
gotten how the enemies Of the u
schedule stole : march on them
last summer at the special session
Of congress and nearly spoiled all
the work Of many months, says
the Minneapolis Lumberman.
They are this year keeping a close
watch on affairs at Washington.
Mr.. Theophilus Tunis, who did
such good work last session, is On
hand this winter and putting his
best efforts where they will count
for most. In an interview
Wednesday Of this week, he had
the following to say about the.
move that is being made toward
having lumber included in a posi-.
Bile reciprocity treaty with Canada:
1T is evident the administration
is bent on commercial treaty
with Canada under Section 4 of.
the Dingley bill. As chairman OF
the executive committee OF the
nation Il lumbermen's convention,
I have said to Commissioner Kasson
what he said to the last congress,
that the great interest we repre-.
sent, employing more than 600, 900
workmen and directly supporting
a population of more than 3,0Oo,-
600 people, ask for no special
privilege. While they are willing
TO pay a duty for other manufact-
ured goods equal to 40 to 50 per.
cent Of their value, they only ask
for their own, less than 20 per
cent. As they then said they are
unwilling to be singled out Of all
the other manufacturing industries
of this country to test the theories
of free trade.
"They are now unwilling to be
understood as opposing any policy
of the government looking to the
exclusion of our export trade, and
will cheerfu]ly 60 as far in the
consumm .tion Of that policy as
will any other interest, but are
una]terably opposed to sharing
with coal and fish the burden of a
policy to which the great masses
of our people are utterly indiffer.
ent, but which is urged on the
administration by few Ameri.,
cans, inter ested in the seal fisheries
and a few other American citizens
who are owners Of Canadian
forests. -
GAS a matter Of principle, policy
and, business, the average student
of every day affairs can see no
more reason, Justice or demand for
reciprocity with Canada than with
her imperial mother, our best Gus.
toner for our wheat, corn, hay,
cotto.,, lumber, etc., all Of which
she buys not on any sentimental
ground, but simply because she
wants them. The danger to our
interests lies in reciprocity with
nations located in the same tenn.
perate zones as our own and OF
whose products we are entirely in.
de.endent.. The case may be
different in the count les in the
tropics, producing things which
we need and which cannot be pro.
duced at home. Representatives
and senators from the south re.
gardless of politics, realize that a
reduction in the duty of white
pine would be as harmful to them
and their constituents as it is to
the white pine, hemlock and spruce
interests Of Michigan, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New
York, New England and the Pa
ci6c coast in view Of the hearty
approval given by their constitu.
ents to their votes in favor of
raising the duty on white pine to
80 will oppose this article being
singled out for lower duties in
Canadian reciprocity negotia-.
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