The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-25
MOVE TO PROSECUTE
the PAPEn TRUST
Newspaper Publishers Will
Raise S 500, 900 to Make
the Fight Hot.
APPEALS TO PRESIDENT
Agitation for Removal of the Tariff on
Pulp and Paper Is to Be Con-
Quoted in the Most sys-
tematic Way Possible.

Quoted in the Most Sys-
tematic Way Possible.
New York. Feb. 23.-The American
Newspaper Publishers association, rep
reSenting $50 leading dailies, resolved to
take energetic steps looking to the re-
moVal or tariff on pulp and paper.
II was also resolved TO call upon Fresi-
dent Roosevelt and Attorney General
Knox TO take steps against the two
combinations that now control the
OF news paper-Vlz., the In
tefnatlonat PAPER known as
the Paper Trust, and the General Pa
per company of Chicago, which divides
territory with the larger concern. Steps
were taken to raise a fund of 500, 600
to carry on the fight against these mo-
nopolies, and a considerable portion of
the sum was subscribed at the meeting.
Recent conditions of drought and re-
duced production have placed the
newspaper publishing business In great
peril, and this, with the exactions and
high prices, has produced what the
publishers declare to be intolerable con-
dlt!ons. The resolution adopted reads:
The American Newspaper Publish
erS association request the president Of
the United States and the attorney gen
eral TO institute a suit against any OF
the three paper combinations to test
the legality of their existence, and
whether they do not stihe competition"
A committee was appointed to carry
out the suggestion Of an agitation to
reduce the duties On pulp and paper,
and in the afternoon the report of a
committee, to which the matter had
been referred, favoring the raising of
a 100000 fund was adopted.
.. "A 80 CLAN CT n tn>,ott ~ h.- 20 -, - NV,
was made by John Norris, business
manager OF the New York Times.
Mr.. Norris's Speech.
The newspapers" he said, ARE
threatened to day With a paper famine.
Ihe manufacturers tell us that thirty
hVe paper machines have been shut
down and that production has been re
duced on an average of 600 tons q. day,
and that unies conditions change they
may be unable to supply some OF their
customers after February 20.
Large in New York have
been limited recently to what may be
termed a 'hand-to-mouth' supply. On
one occasion a morning paper at II p.
m. did not have a single roll of paper
in its press room. The unfortunate pub
fishers of Baltimore newspapers have
been. put to serious stress by this ar
tificial scarcity.
r. II 1HlSl lldlloIldi ldppI company
has imported cargOes of Norwegian
pulp and the Norwegian producers have
offered 1t by advertisement to the paper
trade generally.
Manufacturers confess thai they are
unable TO obtain either pulp or water
for production.
rs it not time that the customers OF
these paper manufacturers took effec-
tive steps to protect themselves against
men who show short Sioht cd macs .1.,l-
of enlightened self-interest and inca
Dacity for the responsibilities they have
arbitrarily Ssunled
Cut Down the Supply.
"On the LIST of November. 1909. the
manufacturers aScertained that there
were AZ. 900 tons of new print paper in
stock, an increase of 1000 tons over the
corresponding date of 1902. Accordingly
they arranged for a shutdown of five
days, beginning November %. 1908, by
all mills asst and west, calculating that
in this way they would reduce stock to
the extent of 10000 tons. Some manu-
facturers tried to excuse this action by
asserting that there was q shortage of
ground wood. but Mr.. G.. w. Lyman.
speaking for President Chisholm, While
admitting that there was a shortage of
pulp, said: The International Paper
Company, hoyarver, has not been
obliged to shut down because of the
scarcity of pulp IN the western
states there was no p%retense of q
drought. 1t is therefore fair to infer
that the only reason for shutting down
wa to take 12.0GN tons out of the mar
ket and to produces an artificial scar
city.
what explanation shall he expect from
men who deliberately stop manufacturing
and then produce a panic by their cries
of famine?
What explanation shall We receive from
these men who have prodncnd an artificial
situation by securing an increase in tariff
duties from So to s6 n ton on news print
paper and by increasing the tariff on their
raw material. ground wood, and by the
levy Of conntervailing duties?
Blocked Canadian Reciprocity.
"Thes men rave blocked Canadian re-
ciprocity. and have provoked Canadian
reprisals against themselves and against
us. BY their efforts to control conditions
in the paper market they have. produced Il
situation whereby the quantity OF orr ex-
ports of print paper has steadily declined
since 1898, and the imports of paper and
of paper stock and4of wood pulp have in
creased. They have inausurated AN un-
healthy bidding for Woodlands to STOP the
incursions of rivals. They have marked
up the prices of wood and OF labor upon
themselves and upon their customers.
Iney have failed in the promises they
held out when the International Paper
companN was organized. Instead of re-
ducing the cost of manufacturing they
have Increased 1t. Instead of creating a
foreign trade for ON manufacturers they
have reduced 1t. Instead OF avoiding vio-
! lent fluctuations and abnormal conditions
in the paper market they have stimulated
these disturbances.
by dismantling one or more mills and
converting others 81 different uses the
International Paper company has reduced
the output Of news print paper In its
mills from a rated capacity Of 600 tons
per day In 1883, to an actual capacity OF
about ]. 200 tons In 1903. That corporation,
which charged With all the responsibility
OF the paper market has not added sin
gle new news machine to Its outfit in#the
five years Of his history.
SaIt has bought tbs surplus product oi
independent mills IN order thar III might
maintAin high prices. and II has shipped
some Or that pr0duct abroad, 30 That,
asitspfHeers told 3 DIXON N Ees9r Dtxor
SON. HI gagaS egssaa stnga wal RheN
could nsa1as sSdis posse aT 40 per eSn
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