The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-10-30
PRICE OF PAPER.
The Publishers Everywhere Are
0bjectiBg to the Raise.

0bjecting to the Raise.
Rates Will Have to Be
Raised to Meet the New Conditions
in the Publishing Field.
The Fourth Estate says while the
outcry of publishers against the high
prices of paper is practically uni
versal the defenders Of the present
tariff deny that the repeal Of the
duty on pulp would mend matters
But upon the whole the feeling
against the paper trust" is Intensely
bitter and krows more and more so
as the subejt is talked over. The
statement that the paper mills are
run at small profit, despite the rise
in prices, is generally laughed at,
The widespread dissatisfaction
among publishers cropped out -e-
Gently at meeting of the Western
Pennsylvania Associated Dalies at
the Hotel Lincoln, Pittsburg. Os-
tensibly the meeting was called to
complete the organization of the as
sociation, but all routine work was
forgotten when the paper question
came up
The one fact of vital interest
brought out was that the paper
trust" has raised the price of paper
from So hundred to $3.50 and
$3.50 hundred, and is even re-
fusing any quotation on future de-
livery orders. 1t was charged that
the trust has contracted for the en-
tire product Of 10000 tons Of the
Canadian mills at uniform price OF
S1.S0 a hundred, of which it pays
a duty of 80 cents a hundred, max.
ing handsome profit on the trans.
action. The consumers represented
at the meeting said that if the duty
were removed they could import
their paper from Norway or Sweder
and save money.
The New York Evening Post say:
the increased cost of paper and the
general situation are worrying the
newspapers that are using wood-pulI
paper: As already shown, the cos
has gone up tremendously and
what is more, the supply is by ne
means as abundant. White paper i:
now costing s13 more per ton nov
than few months ago. and the enc
is not yet.
The Post sees great danger to the
press unless the people come to thu
rescue of tbs papers and patroniz'
them at a higher subscription rate
The whole country will suffer if al
unnatural rise in the cost of news
paper living should either restrlc
| freedom of utterance or force thu
press into the hands of few capi
talists willing for one reason o.
another to accept low profit, o.
none at all,
The New York Commercial say
this is matter that comes vital,
home to the millions upon million
of newspaper readers in the Unitet
States-people who in recent year
have seen the price of every othe
article that enters into the cost o
living steadily advancing while thel
newspapers alone have been unchang
ed in price or have actually declined
| for unless this steady rise in tn
price of paper is speedily checked
through one agency or another, tn
prices of newspapers must be ma
terially advanced sooner or later.
.'It is an open question whethe
the cost Of some trust controlle'
products mineral oil, for in
stance-would have been highe
had these industries been conducted
without any combinations; the chic
indictment against these combines
is the sitting of competition
killing off the smaller producers
but the exactions Of the "pape
trust" threaten to put up prices OF
product conusmed by fve-sixth o
the population
The Patterson Call says those
who have studied the subject deep
ly say that the importation of all thu
paper and material that Canada
could produce would not material,
affect the price The demand fol
paper is so great that the price vii
remain high. without doubt, in the
opinion of experts The real remedy
will be in the direction of inventins
some new method of making paper
and if reports be true, some en-
couraging prospects for that achieve
ment are in sight 1t ought to be
possible to find some material out
of which paper is made that can be
raised by cultivation, instead of hav'
ing to depend on spruce trees, over
which man has comparatively little
control.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says the increased cost of produc-
ton Of which many Industries are
complaining has not passed the pub
fishing house business by. The bur
dens Of the newspaper publisher
have grown enormous in the past
two years. All the important items
Of expense in getting out a paper
nowadays are from % to so per
cent. more than they were year or
two ago The price of print paper
has steadily risen until it has reach
ed exhorbitant figures. (Never has
the publishing business been so bur
dened. In some places newspapers
have been compelled to raise their