Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-14
WHAT CJkN|NS SAID.
Part of His Speech Before the
Boston Home Market Club
Not Published
LUMBER, IRON ORE AND COAL.
Figures and Statements on These Ar.
ticIes With Relation to tho Tariff
Not Before Given-some Interesting
Statistics and conelu.ions-ot Other
\ ws Of tho State.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Nov. 14.-Reports Of the
governors address before the Home
Market Club Of Boston, on the tariff
question printed in the newspapers Of
this section Of the country, have all
eliminated very valued part of tho
address pertaining to lumber iron ore
and coal. His figures and statements
on these articles he has never given
before and for that reason are of In
terest and Importance in the discus
sion of tariff revision. The paragraphs
referred to are as follows:
I'VE have put duty of substantial
~ 81 per thousand on lumber. 1t was
intended to enhance the value Of our
pine forests, and to insure the cutting
of logs in our own country. Given
the logs at the sawmill, there Is no sub
stantial difference between the cost Of
cutting them in the United States and
Canada, and therefore. Judged by the
true criterion OF protection, there ought
not under any circumstances to be
more than one-fourth the duty upon
lumber that the present schedule inn
poses. American sawmills are not
benefited appreciably by the lumber
tariff, but 1t has vastly enhanced the
value Of standing pine. and if / have
mot misunderstood the history Of the
Dlngley law. the owners Of pine stump
age were the men who were especially
energetic and effective in SCORING -
duty They have all grown rlch-some
Of them fabulously SO. AS look at
It, the duty is tndefensible.
K I'VE have. in the far west great
areas or arid land, and irrigation Is
one OF the live topics Of the hour. We
need water to make these lands fruit
full Suppose river that comes roll
ing over the border line to quench the
thirst OF this parched ground We're
damned at our northern boundary,
and made to pay q duty simply be-
cause 1t might render American water
less valuable. What q travest 1t would
be upon government established for
the common good. / see little distinc-
ton between levying q duty to make
American water more costly and levy
ing q duty to raise the price Of pine
stumpage.
.There is however, another view
more essential and far-seeing, which
condemns the duty upon lumber. The
forests Of Michigan and Wisconsin are
practically gone. and we are cutting
the forests OF the south and Of the west
with frightful rapidity. IL we continue
to use lumber as we have used 1t, IN
less than fifty years the source OF sup
ply In the United States will have been
exhausted. AS tine process goes ON,
lumber will become dearer and dearer,
and when the end comes we will he
compelled to rely upon importation.
when It Is remembered that iron, steel
and lumber are the Fundamental ma
,terials of all industry, the wisdom OF
conserving in every possible way OUT
forests Is manifest to the d1lllest mind.
Instead OF shutting out lumber from
Canada. It would have been wise, II
we could have accomplished 1t, to have
adopted policy that would have de-
nalded the great forests of the Dom1n-
ion before ours We're laid under the
axe. To say the least. q course which
would have had tendency to preserve
our timber would have yielded the ut
most advantage to the people Of the
IInited states. Iearnestly submit that
"a there was nothing else awry In the
Present acd,edaales. the duty on lumber
,,o,id clone iustify the demand for
revsision
1--WE have duty of 40 cents Per ton
N, iron ore I do not believe that there
10 any indar,try dn the world that can
y,,,e..,;7,yc~a from ore more cneaply than