Bisbee daily review., 1905-12-31
THE PAPER TRUST.

are growing weary of supporting the trusts. The paper trust is giving the newspapers of the country, Rcpubli- can and Democratic alike, an object
 lesson in what the trust system is do-
 ing to the consumers of the country. ! The following is taken from the Santa Fe New Mexican concerning
 the paper trust:
 ''The New Mexican has supported
 Republican principles and the cause ! of protection to American industries
 for forty years and pro. o-~J @ l.. so hereafter. as long e EopI-i!can party principles shall prevail. This paper, however, in common with many ! leading Republican newspapers in the
 United States desires to voice the great necessity of curbing the brutal and grasping paper trust which has been getting rich and is becoming richer right along. owing to an unfair and unjust schedule in the Dingley tariff bill If there is rotten monop- oly in the country it is that same thieYing and ruthless paper trust. It is high time that it's nefarious opera tions and dishonest actions were stopped. The New Mexican does not agree with everything in recent edi- torial in the Kansas City Star, but must acknowledge that in the main the editorial is correct and that the remedies therein contained for the curbing of the paper trust are about right. Says the Star:
 The department of justice has several cases pending against the pa 1er trust, charging it with a violation If the interstate commerce laws. A
 ,etter remedy, but one that would have to be adopted by Congress. would be to eliminate the trust by removing the duty on paper and it's raw ingred- tents. And if Congress is in earnest about dealing a blow to this arbitrary and abusive monopoly it will pass the bill introduced by Representative . for free admission of news print pa per, book and periodical paper, wood and wood pulp and other materials of whatever kind used in the manufac- ture of paper. MT. Shackelford Of fered his bill early in the session. It covers the essential points, it is properly framed and it meets the just demands of the users of paper as well as those of the independent manufac- turers.
 |" Of all the duties imposed by the Dingley law there is none more un- reasonable than those laid on print pa per and it's ingredients. This duty is not for the protection of the paper making industry. for all the manufac- turers of paper except those in the trust who control practically all the spruce forests of this country, seek the removal of the duty. It certainly is not for the benefit of American labor. -la--- -tLa duties on news print paper and on wood pulp are greUTeT than the cost of labor entering into these articles respectively. The only ben efts of the tariff go to the trust, which is enabled to charge excessive rates for its output because American manu- lecturers in competition with the trust are unable to secure free pulp from Canada and are prohibited from es- tablishing pulp mills in Canada to make paper there or to ship to man ufacturers on this side, and because paper of Canadian manufacture is not brought into competition with Ameri- can paper Now, aside from the in dustrial and commercial consideration of the case, it is highly important that the wood for making paper should be drawn from the unlimited Canadian forests rather than from the already depleted timber lands of the United States, where their preservation is essential to the water supply and other vital conditions.