Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-12
THE PAPER TRUST
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h..ds that he has no remedy against the
supply of inferior paper
you ask II the consolidation OF the mills
has curtaied consumption. | say that
q result OF the increased price of paper
many newspapers have been reduced in
size. At one time the New York daily
newspapers cUrtailed eighty tons per week
in their consumption. ] am told that Phila-
delpha newspapers took similar s1"es. 4" .
The present excessive price OF paper vas
made possible by four incidents: First. the
Standardization war. which created an
extraordinary demand for news print paper;
second, the South African war. wni:h de-
Elected the Canadian output of wood pulp
TO Great Britain: third, the phenomenal
drought of 1899 and 1900; fourth, the adop-
ton by the International Paper Company
of the policy of attempting to acquire all
Of the available spruce in the United
States for the purpose of checking COMPETE
ton. and thereby marking up the price of
wood upon itself and upon all other
mills
Suggestion as to Trades Relations.
MY suggestion is that an effort he made
t. promote trade rela lions with Canada
for free pulp and free paper or, at least,
free pulp. thereby protecting our forests
and utilizing Canadas great stores of tim
Der We should adopt the plan which
President Mckinley has advocated of re-
uniting those taxes which experience has
shown ia be most burdensome to the in
dust Fies of the people The tariff on wood
pulp is not maintained for revenue. be-
cause the entire duty paid in 1900 only
$4,000. and because one-half of the pulp
wood used by the International Paper Com
pany comes from Canada. and because
spruce consumption exceeds the accessible
supplies
The entire labor roll of all the news
print pulp and paper mills of the country
Will average 81 per ton, or 81 .20O.oO0 per
RnnHm, a sum which is exceeded by the
combined pay rolls of four real newspapers
in the state of New York. II consideration
Is TO be given to the labor employed in
the paper mills consideration should also
te given to two points-first the statement
Of President Chisholm and American can
successfully compete for the markets of
The world. and IT therefore needs no pro-
lection.
Second. That the labor employed in the
newspapers affected by this tariff bears
forty times the force employed in the
paper mills. and is equally entitled to con-
sideratinu and protection against a move
ment that has taken advantage of tariff
legislation to Cypress and tax a purely
American industry and to promote So
called community of interest. Any tax
uPon news print paper is tax upon
knowledge and upon the education of the
people.
Mr.. Norris was questioned at some length
On the policy of the international Paper
Company to hold large tracts of spruce
laiid for actual use thirty years hence
S"ch holding were in the nature of specIl-
lstioH and had no true relation to the
cost of manufacturing poper. Yet the
charge ar that speculation was added to
the cost Of paper today. If wood pulp were
admitted free such charge could not be
made. The need for protecting the sources
of streams required the preservation of
forests in this country. while in Canada
Their are spruce forests available for
PUN for paper practically inexhaustible.