The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-01-27
rnE NEWSPAPER OK IS ooaED.


Tnx JouRsAL has received lettc
from W. ID. Thomas, editor Of the Ful
ton Sun, Of Fulton, Missouri, urging al
publishers Of newspapers 10 help alonp
the antitrust agitation and especially &c
direct their efforts against the paper
trust which has arbitrarily sdyarced
prices 90 10 10 per cent within a year.
Editor Thomas says;
The most damnable oi all the trusts "
the paper trust.
News that was worth t2.05 per hun.
irod delivered one year ago Il selling AZ
$3.50 per hundred delivered today.
Envelopes, fats, ruled goods and all
other paper stocks have advanced from
% 10 70 per cent, The trusts are thus
robbing Che publishers OF hundreds and
thousands of dollars OF hard.carned
cash.
The little profit you ma le in the
paper business last year will All be con.
tributed lby force 10 the paper trusts
this year.
Take the tariff Of 81 per ton from
paper, protect our forests, protect the
Publishers, protect the poor country
printer and "bust" the trust.
The trust owns 80 out Of a8 mills,
owns all the available wood and water
supply for paper pulp and have advanced
white paper 20 per cent. Ask your
congressman 10 vote 10 undo this trust.
1--we will pull together we will undo
the paper trust and saye American pub.
fishers millions OF dollars every year.
Strike down the country papers and
the most earnest and most potent oe.
tenders of the peoples rights are De.
stroycd. The condition which permits |
the Paper Trnet ~ live and fatlen on |
the meagor earnings oi the country ed. |
llof, The Law which protects the trusts
In its extorilon of millions 0f dollars aud
tho combinations which keep that law
on the statute book, are all aimed ~.
Eecily ~ the defenders OF the peoples
rights. When the Trust shall have
sqneeEed the little country papers 0nt Of
exlAlouae, monopOlier, combinations,
subsidies and all sorts Of consplmcies
VII have smoother sailing. The cen.
sornhlp ol the press will he complete
when the Trusts own aud control all
the papers. Above the dim Of battle
comes The mighty cry Tor a Free Pnss
aud nnirammelcd expresalonsof opinion,
The editor Of the sun seems 10 have
been carrying ON this campaign ior bome
time. and he has received favorable and
even enthusiastic responses from papers
Ia ncarly every a,ate IN the Union,
II the way 10 mans heart IL through
biz stomach, Il 10 equally true that the
way 70 hln brain IL through this pocket. {
Many a poor country editor who has
been whooplng II up all through his
ieespaper existence for protective A
ariii and the benehcenoo oi large com. I
oi capital hAs becn obliged 10 v
'ui on hls thinking cap nioca the paper b
rust has jumped up tho price oi the b
'spsF stock he is obliged 10 buy.
lie knows that the manufacture Of
aper vas profitable before tho raise. lie y,
move that the trust Il paying no more h,
'f raw material than Il did belore, no m
lofe Tor freight no more iof labor Ia u
ny form, He knows that the trust has a.
'ved on ihe latter item by economies oi
'anenement over the old Individual
'siem that Il is paying out much less No
labor per ton Of papor, aud thereby \,
'ereAsine The patronage Of newspaper. IN
. Knows that Eeycry oent which the ~
asl ls srlngine from tthe newspaper, ~ ",
this purely arbitrary raising Of prices,
"a v swell The profits Of the trust Az
I'd be knows that the existing ,adf Of nl,
per ION on paper enables the trusl 10
'arge just " per lon more ioF lts prol.
I than Il othsTslsp could. When the
. matter ls pas belore paper buyer ~'
terms - plain, he usually soes i, and ,n ,l
wants I, see that particular "prolec. NS W.
IA" sbolishei, GU
Il is plaln proposition, 70 plain ,ha, .a'
WaylAFins man though TOOL nosd M,
I err lhereln - and. a. class, ncun ~,
per men are not ioola ~.
No matter what our t,au convictions vh
y b IN The abstract, 10 matter uhat ass
tIin may have donp In tie gasi ior an.
, establishment u infant industries, Re-