Evening star., 1899-01-30
Great Dailies of the Country Send
Delegates Here.
THEY MEET and ADOPT AN ADDRESS
Joint High Commission and Con-
gress Asked to Heed It.
r ISTING A TR . S r

newspapers of the United States met in
the banquet hall of the Shoreham at noon
today. Their object was to demonstrate
to the joint high commission, the President
and Congress that they are serious and
determined in their effort to secure free pa
per and the preservation of the forests.
The meeting was made necessary, it is re-
ported. by the knowledge that the paper
trust which they are opposing, is claiming
six votes in the Senate against any Cana
dian reciprocity treaty which may interfere
with the duty paper.
Newspapers Represented.
The newspapers duly represented today
Were: Portland, Me, Press, New Haven
Register; Providence, r. l., Journal, New
buryport, Mass, Standard, New Bedford,
Mass, Mercury, New York Evening Post
New York Stats Zeitung, New York
World, New York Commercial Bulletin
Brooklyn Standardization. Brooklyn Times,
Rochester Herald, Jersey City Evening
Journal, Newark Daily Advertiser PhiIa-
deiphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Evening Bu.-
ietin, Philadelphia Can, Philadelphia Even
ing Telegram, Baltimore American, Balti
more News, Baltimore Herald, Washing
ton Star, Washington Post. PittSburg
Times and News, Plttsburg Post, Reading
Pa, Eagle. Reading, Pa, Times Reading
Ia, Telegram, Reading, Pa, Review and
Posi-, Chicago Tribune. Chicago Daily News
ana Record, Chicago journal, Detroit News
st. Louis Republic, st. Louis Dispatch
st. Joseph Herald, Cleveland Leader, Grand
Rapids, Mich, Evening Press, st. Paul
pIoneer Press Richmond, Va, Dispatch,
savannah Ca, Morning News, New Or
leans Times-D Democrat. New Orleans Plea
yune and Bee, Topeka, Kan, State Journal
Capital, Raleigh News and Observer, At
ianta Constitution, Detroit Journal, Omaha
Bee, Toledo Bee, Toledo Blade, Grand
Rapids Democrat, Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia Press, Detroit Tribune, Bur
lington Free Press, Denver Times, Denver
Post, Denver News, Denver Republican,
New York Times, Baltimore News, New
Orleans Picayune, New Orleans Bee.
Chairman Norris Address.
The meeting was called to order prompt
ly at noon Mr.. c. W. Knapp of the St.
Louis Republic was made chairman and
Mr.. W. c. Bryant of the Brooklyn Times
secretary. Mr.. John Norris of the New
York World, chairman of the special COM
mittee on paper of the American Newspa-
per Publishers Association, then stated the
object of the meeting. He said it had been
called for the purpose of adopting and pre-
senting to the joint high commission, the
President and Congress the following ad-
dress, which ne read:
The delegated representatives of Ameri-
can newspapers, in meeting assembled al
Washington, January 80, 1899 respectfully
submit 10 the President and to the Ameri-
can commissioners, that the honest inten-
tions which originally Induced the estab-
iishment of the tariff duty paper and
pulp have been perverted to further the
purposes of the recently formed corpora
ton, the international Paper Company, and
that every newspaper publication in the
country east of the kocky mountains has
been placed at the mercy of that corpora
ton. Within the last week We are advised
that the International Paper Company has
acquired fourteen additional mills repre-
senting the plants of three large concerns
and that 1t Is negotiating for three other
properties, Which represent all of the out
put from independent mills in the territory
east OF Michigan. In View of the fact that
the International Paper Company is
selling its surplus paper in England Aus
tralla and Japan, III successful competition
with Canadian, German and Swedish manu-
facturers, and in view of the important
point that the International Paper Com
pany is protected by reason of its proximity
to It's customers to the extent of an average
of 81 60 per ton, and by reason of its ability
10 OBTAIN cheaper and better supplies of
coal and chemicals, We fail to see the occa
sion for giving sanction to its abuse of gov
ernmental protection.
The International Paper COMPANY.
The International Paper Company is a
combination of tWenty-four mills (since ex-
panded to thirty which has been capitalized
at 500 5,OUOG00. 1t controls 50 per ceubt of
the new output and its promoters frankly
ADMIT that the common stock of $40 900 900
represents only good will, The entire prod
uct OF this large combination could be du-
pl1cated with modern and better machinery
at less cost per pound upon a capitalization
II $lo,oO1,OUO, so that print-paper users in
the United States are forced to bear the
burden of an excessive capitalization of
s4oDooOO and to pay an added charge of
S2,UoO,OU per annum.
Every mill owner who entered that COM
= W n ,.ylI Of ,;fe
ties. Excessive and improper prices were
paid for many mills that We're located on
Exhausted water courses and that We're
tributary to denuded timber tracts: for mills
that at periods of the year have an insult
ficient supply of water are under water:
tor mills that are inferior and worthless in
machinery. equipment and constructions; for
mills that must pay excessive rental for
water power for mills that do not own or
control woodlands; for mills that have
neither pulp-grinding attachments nor sui
phite pulp auxiliaries.
No Mill Possesses All Essentials.
Not one of the mills in all the combina-
ton possessed all of the six essentials Of
the cheapest and most successful manufac-
ture, namely, cheap wood cheap and am
pie water power, cheap rates to market,
modern machinery, wholesale production
and concentration at place under one
supervision In some cases the organizers
OF the International Paper Company gave
securities to mill owners representing five
times the actual investment In the mills,
and in gathering together this assortment
OF mills the paper company also acquire
every available spruce tract where cheap
timber could be had and every large water
power, with one exception, where substan-
tial competition might otherwise be estab-
lished. This object was easily attained
because our spruce supply Is being ex-
hausted at the rate of seventeen hundred
square miles per annum. The state of New
York has set aside park of 1000 square
miles of spruce territory and decreed that
no timber thereon shall ever be cut in
order that the state might guard the water
supply and avert disastrous floods and pro-
! tect agriculture and manufacture. Yer
mont spruce forests are barely equal to its
home demands. New Hampshire commits
| sioners have issued solemn warning that
| the states forest resources at the present
| rate Of cutting will be exhausted in eight
years. All the timber townships of Maine
that are accessible to the large rivers have
been denuded.
Conditions have radically changed since
| the early settlers cleared away the virgin
/ forests. Millions of population must now
| be considered; and climate, health water
supplies, and kindred matters present new
| problems for governmental action in regu-