Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-02-26
TWO OF US FOUND.

The Cedar Rapids Gazette observes
fthat the standpat editors OF tllt
state believe that free trade with
Canada should go no further thar
placing paper. pulp and pulpwood or
the free list" The assertion certain',
does not apply to the Hawkeye. This
paper has consistently refused to join
| in the demand for free paper and pulp
AS Mr.. Mckinley said: Il would give
the days labor to our own first, last
and all the time That applies tt
Canadian paper pulp and products. =
Burlington Hawkeye.
Hero. then, are two Of US, sufficient
number for the establishment OF j
strong and respectable political fac
ton. The Hawkeye is strong and The
Gazette is respectable. or the Burling-
ton paper can have it the other way.
But the HAwkeye will remember that
several papers. now standpatters
agitated long and loud for the repeal
OF the tariff on paper, pulp, and pulp
wood. making the direct assertion
that the tariff sheltered the monopoly
The files Of these papers will nc
doubt be later examined by the dem-
ocrats and by the tariff reformers
and about the time they think
they have commenced to fight the
Iowa idea, Canadian free trade and
Canadian reciprocity. they will receive
broadside that will put them out
Of commission and make them a
Laughing stock. not only in Iowa. blls
| all over the country.
These men and these papers de-
mand absolute free trade with Cam
ada in the chief product In which
they are concerned. They did not
consider the beauties OF high wages
paid in the American paper mills. and
gave no consideration to building up
a home market by the production of
home Institutions. The rate OF tarin
On print paper is. roughly speaking. at
this time, from 15 per cent to 20 per
cent. These standpat editors demand
ed free trade in print paper alone.
They did not demand free trade In
paper. as an article. Their selfshness
was shown in this fact. The average
tariff on other papers and manufac-
lures OF paper Is above Is per cent,
the majority OF the schedules being at
IS per cent, and some OF them running
as high as 65 per cent. Books bound
or unbound, are protected at 25 per
cent, and the stnndpatters objecting 20
paying Is per cent for what is to them
the raw material when the finished
product is producted at Is per cent.
Plain envelopes are dutiable at 20 per
cent and printed envelopes at So. per
cent. Labels are dutiable at % per
cent. When letter paper. note paper
or the like product is printed with the
name OF a firm. or embossed. or manu-
factured in any way. there is charge
OF 10 per cent in addition, to the fixe
tariff. The standpatters did not de-
mand the abolition OF this part OF the
tarifY, and they never will. But late
in the season. when they have steam
up. general reproduction OF their
articles, favorlng free trade with Cana
da in the direction that would dc
them good and allow no benefit =
others along with the paper schedule
will be OF consuming interest. The
people of Iowa will then have chance
to Judge Of the honesty Of their argu-
ments and intentions. and they may be
sorry that they have dragged them
selves forward on two occasions. for
different purposes. in the capacity of
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