Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-18
PRINT PAPER DUTIES
NOW HIGH ENOUGH
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American presses. And the protected Ia
borers on these twenty-four machines
were compelled to find other jobs"
HOW PAPER is MADE.
Senator Brown entered into discus
sion of paper making and the progress
that has been made in the manufacture
since the discovery that 1t could be made
from weed. The industry has grown and
prospered, he said. until today American
mills produce more than 100000 tons OF
print paper annually and are about to
supply the American market
Ground wood pulp is made very large
" from the spruce tree with a limited
amount from the hemlock tree, he said.
'"Tbe spruce is already nearly exhausted
In the United States. Science has not yet
discovered any other tree which may be
satisfactorily converted into pulp by the
grinding process. The domestic consump-
ton of print paper amounts to 1,2OO,OOO
tons annually. The total consumption OF
spruce wood for paper purposes In the
United States amount to 2, 10000 cords per
annum. One-third of this amount comes
from Canada the remainder from Ameri-
can forests. The government forest SER
vice estimates that there are 100000 OF
acres of spruce forests east Of the Rock
Mountains.
FIGURES ABOUT FORESTS.
THE spruce on the Pacific coast is more
valuable for lumber and is used only in
limited quantities for paper making.
Computing the exhausting of these spruce
forests on the basis of present consump-
ton for paper purposes, Forecaster Pin
chot estimates they will be exhausted as
follows:
Maine, in Is years; New Hampshire, in
rs years; Vermont, in IL years, and New
York in 8 years. He also estimates that
Minnesota, with her great forests of blacS
spruce, cannot continue to supply Jher
present output and have any left at the
end of years. Mr.. Pinchot also testified
that II will be impossible to avoid the
exhaustion by reforestation, for the rea-
son that spruce trees require from 20 to
100 years to reach diameter of ten
inches"
Senator Brown drew the following con-
clusion at the end of his argument:
Our pulp wood supply is nearly ex-
hausted.
"The pulp wood supply of Canada is ap-
arently inexhaustible.
Free pulp would tend to conserve our
pulp wood.
less in the United States than il is In
Canada.
"A ton OF news-print paper costs in Can
ada 1884 omanufacture. in the United
States 1t costs 327.74 per ton"
CONTROLLED BY TRUST.
The print paper market is controlled IN
the United States by a combination, and
whatever duty the law may fix will assist
the combination in that control. In vio-
lation of the law, in competition to the
injury and outrage of the public
by reason of such control. the cost Of
print paper to the consumer has been ar
bitrarily advanced to an unreasonable and
unconscionable profit to the manuafc-
turer.
Print paper advanced from SSs in 1907
to S42 and $50 per ton In 1905
THE Importation Of print paper for all
time has been neglible.
1.-The proposed duty on pulp and print
paper is therefore not necessary for pro-
lection purposes nor uses for revenue pur-
poses. 1t is therefore an outlaw duty. and
should be stricken from this BILL
ALDRICH STARTED SUBJECT.
The subject was introduced by Senator
Aldrich. who. as chairman of the finance
committee. proposed an amendment in
creasing the duty on print paper from
one-tenth to two-tenths of a cent per
pound which he said equalled 81 ton.
The Dingley law placed the duty at IS
ton and the house reduced 1t to 81 a
ton.
Senator Browne, of Nebraska, immedi-
ately took the floor to speak on the sub
iect.
Offering an amendment to place print
paper on the free list, Mr.. Browne de-
clared that the paper industry did not
need the protection of duty. AT the
risk of creating a panic" he said. he
would read from President Roosevelts
message to congress, in response to which
the house had undertaken to investigate
the wood pulp and paper business. He
then proceeded to read from the mes
sage, and in doing so received careful
attention.