The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-31
AFTER LUMeER TRUST.


weight Of law in the Great Southwest
The states have decreed that It has
long enough gone free OF the re-
straining hand Of supervision, and
that it has left in its wake the ruined
forests, the wasted young trees, and,
while securing it's raw material at the
lowest possible figure, has asked Of
the consumer in all instances the high
price the same as required whore the
raw material costs the high price.
Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Okla
homa are an unit in the effort to
thwart the methods and plans OF tue
yellow pine users. AMI that these
great oommonwpalths viii succeed in
cugbing the past privileges, there is
no one Of information and thought
doubts. The local lumber dealers, II
the effort of the states be success ssful.
Will be able to make the profits and
still sell to the consumer far less
than now. For be It known the trust
on lumber is'as noggish as are the
other trusts. and sees that the fancy
profits go to the trust proper in many
Instances also debating the profit OF
the dealers, that there may not be too
much complaint, and the dealer Is
ever the one who has to take the
small profit. II one bs taken.
An instance of lumber trust meth
DDS was made plain in 1907, Shingles
were getting cheap, and tne great
forests OF Washington. Idaho and ore
gon, furnishing half the shingles used
In the world. were instructed to hold
back shipments This was done after
and extraordinary lot had been made
az cheap prices, then the shingles
were shipped as the trust desired. In
spite of the fact that there was never
so large a supply in the forests Of the
three states mentioned, he dealers of
the other states could only get few
hundred Thousand shingles at one or
der, and the price charged was soon
double what It had been a few weeks
before.
That OF course, was the shingle
trust, The trusts have their subdiv-
isions, better planned than an army
and wherever grows certain hn1 OF
wood. there is appointed general
manager for that forest, that mill
that shipping point and so on to the
most nauseating degree. The public
ready to go on with improving, aud
in many instances partially through
Is held up. figuratively speaking, by
! the suspenders. and the last stray
dime taken for the benefit OF that Pc
culiar child Of republican party faitf
trusts.
The different states are waginl
war and as the Southwest is the giani
/ trust fighting section OF the United
/ states, it Is perhaps as well that thS
1 dear old yellow pine baron "a TO NEE
tho strong arm of law right in ths
I tHist-fgnting center OF the republic
Il win be a long fight, and a har
4 fight, bui the Southwest has Officials
who will keep aDlaze the beScoI
lights Of publicity and the body polite
! will be such an unit behind the con
stituted authorities there viii be httl'
/ concentrated effort 10 defend outside
the legal departments OF the trus
\ barons. That the battle is coming OF
I In haste Is apparent by the diferen
states commencing their campaign
the same day ana making the SAM
charges. When the yellow pine cor
cens pay their next quarters legh
n expenses Il viii have some idea OF wha
campaign to bust trust In IN
Southwest means And this Is not
Ted Roosevelt bust newspapers only
as the officials are rushing their cas-
TO tae courts. and they will ente
those courts prepared 10 battle TO
the principle that honest comDetiuo
is the making OF the country ami @
fort TO suppress not permissible ui
der the law of the land
It is even money that the Souu
western officials bag the game an
show the older and 53me OF he NOR
populous states hOW the job can
performed az the lowest possible COS