Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-24
TASTING THEIR OWN MEDICINE.

4 lAS lNU IhEIn OVN VtCDICINIs
Some of the newspapers which are
50 dreadfully afraid of any tariff re-
vision are getting taste of the med
! icine they so stoutly defend in an ad
vance of % per cent on their print
paper supply. And yet during the
month of January, the paper mills in
this country in the aggregate have not
been running moro than so to s. per
! cent of the usual time. The lnterna-
tional Paper Company has shut down
Wilder Mill. Franklin Mil and tmba-
| cog. Piercefeld and Herkimer had been
| shut down in 1907 Dispatches from
| these places say similar orders have
been sent to numerous ether mills of
| the company In New England, and that
| the adoption of this general policy of
| curtailment is due to the fact that
store houses have been filled with the
| finished product and that for time
| the production has been greater than
the needs of the trade. The fact is
that newspaper publishers everywhere
issues and have been Topping off re-
turns to prevent waste. In addition,
the enforcement of the new postal reg
ulattons against illegitimate mail or
der publications. has materially re-
luced the consumption of newsprint
paper Canadian mills are pushing
their capacity to the utmost and are
underselling American mills in the
United States market Notwithstanding
the duty of Sc per ton against the
Canadian mills
The Fibre and Manila association in
December, 1907. curtaied the output
Of Manila paper to the extent of $4,000
tons in an effort to maintain the in
f1ated prices of last yes.r. Jobbers who
had refused to replenish their stocks
1t the high prices We're asked to place
new orders upon a guarantee that the
high prices would be maintained for
American Paper and Pulp Association
making other kinds of paper have been
holding meetings and devising means
to curtail production and to maintain
the high prices obtained by combina-
ton. Nevertheless the president of the
American Paper and Pulp Association,
Mr.. David S. Cowles. in opening the
annual meeting of that body on Thurs
lay, Feb 6. 1908. said: "The present
lures very careful handling. 1t has
been plunged from a great condition
Of prosperity to a condition Of great
depression" Trade authorities con-
eede that the domestic pulp market is
lemoralized and that the agreements
If some of the groups necessary to
maintain paper prices are things of
the past.
The proceedings at the recent meet
makers have not been disclosed to the
public but the effort to maintain ex-
,essive newsprint prices are continued
IN face of considerable declines in the
prices of raw materials The program
thus far indicated provides for running
On part time and for adherence to
combination prices, upon the calcula-
ton that the savings in the lower cost
of raw materials will offset the losses
1ue to running the mills on part time
Thousands of paper makers have been
thrown out of employment while this
scheme of embarrassed, or sickly
operation, or complete suspension is
carried out Paper makers might re-
vive their business by reducing prices.
They might relieve the distress Of their
obtained a tariff on paper. They have
decided upon the policy of curtailment
in production, high prices to customers
and idleness for their employees. The
federal government dissolved one paper
trust and the price of print broke i'm
mediately but as none of the "malefac-
tors of great wealth. were put in Jail
they went right to work on another
combination entrenched behind a
senseless duty on imported pulp.