The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-10-11
DEN0UNCE THE TARIFF.
PAPER TRUST SHOWS REPUBLICAN EDITORS THE
INIQUITY OF PROTECTION

One of the genuine pleasures of life the Far West is
v to read the editorials Oregonan especially when like
the following that paper of the End ins they deal with the
Dngey tariff
Another wicked has just been aimed the dness spheri
ctv of the Dingey tariff This time the Pennsylvania editors
who are guilty sacegous defamation of those sacred schedules
and to make bad could possibly be- they Re-
nbcan editors of them Caor against the blessings of
Dnqeysm from Democratic editors of expected such
people being totally depraved birth and usually growing
tey grow older Republicans and Pennsylvania Republicans
too should stain with such pedious crime untn
able Did not the Dngley tariff lay down the coal the
Pennsylvania mounans Did the perennial fountains Of
kerone And now editors lift their voices fur
os against it. Their conduct like abusing one own moth
er or at least ones mothern-aw
What do these hereto editors advance to justify their
camor Shoingy sordd There note of high, pa
toc unefs atru assault upon the tariff, there al
ways is in those exalted deenses of which the steel trust the beef
trust and lumber knowingly offer With these editors
base considerations amportant the duty
wood pulp paper which particularly gals them They want re-
moved for grossly unparoc that it remains at the
present figure of them will have to go out OF business Inc
newspaper publisher caught vice between rising COST OF
material and rising wages The beef trust and does
put up prices offset increasing price OF produc
ton This the newspaper cannot well do Once oered on e See
for one or two cents always be offered for the same price, OF
less The result has steady decline in the earning power OF
all newspapers in the country For two or three OF e great
New York daes decline has been something like 40 per cent
Robbery the white paper industry as in almost every oer S
stimulated by the tariff Of course it possible or yno
cate to commit highway robbery upon the consumer without a
assistance but the tariff help him he makes much more
beautiful Job of it. This the with the paper trust The sup
ply material for wood paper is falling OFT IN the Onteu
The tariff keeps foreign stock and to conplee ue ~ any
squad farce we hectored Canada with our dou
ism that she has begun to eaae by ang export duties TO 1oeS
products shipped the boundary All these factors
place the users of white paper absolutely the mercy OF the mono
polss who control the supply Their plight is not dn "
than that of the beef COAL kerosene Steel farm
almost everything ee but they are especially DeSl III ~
can make their woes effectively vocal Hence they are great
more IeI To m them remeded than the nconspc1ou uhl
whose how may be heard heaven but naudlDe TO our
y rulers
For great penny dailes things have come to the pass
more subscribers they have desperate their pngh
price the publication does pay tor the Whlle PdPe
to saw nothing of the expense of printing and marketing MOI Una
the of it Advertising supposed TO DC le P ~ y ~
all economic troubles in the newspaper WoIu W.
papr does sell below the cost of production? The advertising ~
the bills and swings the balance to the right sde m ~
been be case once m is so no longer The paper winch P
very large edition may find that the white paper le ~
advertisement than is PAID 1or le spa
subscriptions and advertising cease to yled Ieti' M
for newspaper to do retire from business No .
Pennsylvania editors have rudey cast aside dl ' - M
reverence which IS due to the unspeakabe excellent d %
manded that breach be made in the nefaDe "a - he
the eoteric meaning of their demand? are ue9 +be
slightest dnt in the spherical rotundly o. H. torv all
collapse Of the whole divine creaton Very likely they KNOW
it, but they prefer the tariff collapse Ia @ sa
business, and many millions OF American VIZ
tment ou,soaoer
We must make one exception the statement ui1' w IT,
which does not pay expenses must go out OF 70 nub
pen that millionaire or group of millonalreS are WIS m
lsh paper at loss in order beog the pubic 'n &c
colossal scale other directions they eau h witnessed
the losing publication This phenomnon has ba. # will
the United States and there is full reason " Directly
become more and more The arl' N 60 the ma
only to corrupt morals and destroy m the sources
f 60 Du slso 70 rum m Of designing putocrats 1t poson'