The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-25
PAPER TRUST
BIDDER SPEAKS
FOR PUBLISHERS.
Points Ont the Vast Importance and
Extent of the Industry He
Represents.

CHICAGO, Oct. 25.-The following
powerful address was delivered here
before the National Civic Federation by
Herman Ridder, of New York, presi-
dent of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association:
Government reports upon the condition
of the printing and publishing business, as
1t was two years ago, show that 1t was
the only large manufacturing Industry
which tended toward diffusion and away
from consolidation or concentration. In
the previous five years it had grown In
greater proportion than any other Indus,
try. and 1t had taken first place among all
the industries of the country In the num-
Der of establishments.
Furthermore. the number of printing es-
Establishments had shown a greater increase
In the five years from 1900 to 1908 than III
the previous ten years. fhen, TOO. tIle per
capita value Of printing and publishing
products had increased 10 greater proper
tion than those of any other industry. In
fact, only three other industries had
shown an absolute increase in products
greater than that Of the printing ana pup
fishing business. These facts become ina
portant. and significant In any discussion
dealing with the effects OF combination
or trusts upon Industrial progress. -,
Since those reports were compiled, INC
printing and publishing interest has been
rnenaeed and beset at every point by op-
p~ressive combinations. The cost OF eVsrS
article that it uses, including labor, nae
been subjected to an artificial summation,
and it is doubtful II the splendid contras!
that was then made by that unprotected
industry with the coddled favorites OF the
tariff or with the trusted industries, can
now be maintained.
.'The leading manufacturing industries OF
the United States in 1865 N as FOL
lows:
First. slaughtering and meat packing
second. iron and steel; third. foundries anu
machine shops; fourth, -four and gr1st mills
fifth. clothing; sixth, lumber and timber;
seventh, printing and publishing; eighth,
cotton manufactures. NINTH, wooden manu-
features; tenth, boots and shoes.
h printing and publishing interests
then represented IN annual product or one
half billion dollars, of which ak cities
contributed a quarter billion and New York
city alone contributed almost one-quarteI
of the great total. There were two great
divisions of this vast business-book ana
job printing constituting one class, news
papers md periodicals the other class-the
latter contributing oyer three-fftlle of the
output.
lit is for the newspaper especially that
I propose to speak. The ano
periodicals had a reported capital invested
of two hundred aud thirty-nine million
hundred millions (s1o0, 600, 0o0) represented
machinery. tools and implements. They
paid salaries and wages amounting to one
hundred and six million dollars 100000 600
Per annunl to 10000 workers. Thew pniu
ffty-eight million dollars ($5S. 900, 00O pei
annum for their principal article of use
white paper. They represented the intel
~lectual growth of the country; they eX-
pressed its desires.
Yet SO scrupulous were they In the sub
ordination of their own and immediate III
terests to those of the varying constit'
uencies which they represented. that they
submitted without material protest to ex'
actions and expressions which no other in
terest would have tolerated. While all 9th
ers were consolidating and planning to en-
rich themselves at the general expense
the publishing interests were maintaining
a competition that reduced their subscrip'
ton prices to the lowest limit.
THE newspapers Of the country tina
reached the minimum in price had in
creased their average size from 8 7-10 page
in 1890 to 8 $40 pages in 1905. They i'm
proved their product and extended the.
scope until the circulation OF the dali.
newspaper averaged one copy per day +
every four of the entire population Of tn
country. But all the benefits arising fror
the Introduction of ty~pesetting machines
the perfection OF the printing press an
the %cheapening of the cost of white pape
by the use of mechanically ground WOO
and the improvement of fast-running pape
making machinery, were given to the pub
lie In New York city, for instance, 9