Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-11-02


passed into the hands of allied money
interests with the power to charge
such prices as their ayarice and greed
may determine. The only reason
that farm products are not controlled
by Wall Street is because each year
produces a new crop: the supply is
ineXhaustlble and cannot be corner.
ed, but in the case of coal asd oil
and timber it is different. II the
financial interests buy all of natures
stores they can of course csntrsl the
price and rs natures supply dimin-
ishes and our population increases II
follows with inevitable certainty that
a still higher price can be charged
and we must buy these products and
pay the price demanded for we can.
not buy them anywhere else and must
have them.
The People. Not the Trusts Should
Control Our Government.
We cannot prevent rich men from
5uying up these natural resources n
they want to do it and which they
have right to do and have already
done but we ought neither give nor sell
our government to these Same finan-
oial interests to be used as addition.
al weapons against u.s. Let us see
how your Government is Leading its
aid to the timber trust and making
You pay the bill. The first nsve BY
the trust was to buy all the timber
in the country then have a prehibi.
tive tax placed upon all i'm ported lum-
ber to prevent foreign cemsetitisn
so that If a man needs lunber he
must buy 1t from the timber and lua.
ber trust. On dressed lunher there
IS tax Of $500 per Thousand, which
added to the heavy transportation
2harges prevent lumber coming frsm
Canada or Mexico or foreign csun.
tries because it cannot bs delivered
TO compete with our prices ans pay
this additional tariff and transpsrta.
ton charges So the timber trust
adds this additional cost to their swn
prices and keep the prices up to the
point just a little below the price
which the foreign competitors could
offer | want to explain what I mean
by allied interests and want you to
carry this thought home with yoH
and think it over. The same finan.
cial interests which control the tim.
ber trust also controls the railroads
OF the country So the Government
is presenting the timber trust with
$500 per thousand through its sax
regulation while through the rail.
road trust the foreign rates from ip-
port points are made so high that
foreign lumber can not be brought
into this country or If it is the rail-
road people make such large prof.
it on the transportation charges that
they don't care. --
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Farce OF Government Tax on Lumber
Think of the absolute folly and I'm.
tenable position for our government
in spending vast sums of money to
preserve our forests upon the ono
hand and upon the other hand I'm.
posing an import tax of $3.50 per
thousand feet to prevent foreign Iun,.
ser from coming into this country.
mpoverishlng our people to the ex.
ent OF these unlawful millions which
he timber trust Is annually collect.
ng from the people and at the same
lime helping to denude our forests In.
tead OF drawing upon the forestry
eserves Of foreign countries. TWEEN.
y years ago there were untold mil
ions OF feet of standing timber in
pennsylvania. Today there IN
carcely a decent saw-mill tract left
md every tract of timber in Pennsyl
'ania of any considerable size is
wned by the timber trust. You may
hink that this matter does not con.
ern you because you do not expect
buy any lumber, but don't forget
hat the consumer is the man who al
rays pays the price and when you
ee these enormous fortunes built by
he artificial corporation man yov
lust know that this money has beer
rawn from the pockets of the people
nd the Capitalization OF this same
loney into the one supreme head
ives it additional power while weak
ming the power of resistance upou
lie part of the people. Whether you
wn home or rent one you are pay
lg direct tribute to the timber trust
nd | will venture the assertion that
lere is not mechanic or working
ian living in this Congressional dis
ict today who rents a home who
as not had his rent advanced any
here from 25 to 40 per cent during
lie past five years.