The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-23
WANTS NO TARIFF
PUT ON LUMBER
Claude kitchin Takes Is
sue With Simmons
QUOTES SENATOR'S SPEECH
Regards Position Taken by Simmons
in 1902 i'll Address at Snow Hill as
the Proper One i'll Present Clfcunn-
stanceS-Tariff Does Not Affect
Price of Lumber, He Says.
(By THOMAS j. PENCE

Price of Lumber, He Says.
By THOMAS j. PENCE:
Washington. D. c., Feb. On
little interest is being displayed in
the question. of the tariff on lumber
Dv the members of the North Carolina
delegation to OngreS Senator
was the first to put himself
on record on this question. In a let
ter to ;. A.. Taylor, president Of the
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce.,
published in The News and Observer
OF February IL, he came out 1iatly
in support OF the duty.
Representative Claude kitchln
now takes issue with the letter OF
senator Simmons, declaring that he
believes the position taken by the
Senator in a speech made by him at
Snow Hill on October II, 1902, is the
correct one. Mr.. Kitchln says.
Representative Claude kitcllin's Views
L feel sure that the senator
in his letter to Colonel Taylor
has not given the subject that
careful study and consideration which
he usually does in his discussion OF
public questions, especially when ne
assumes the responsibility of speaking
for his party, as he did in his speech
from which 1 shall presently quote. l
rather think. on account OF the rush
and press of senatorial duties, which
necessarily devolves upon a senator
during a short session, that his letter
was hastily written, without time for
due deliberatiOn. l wish to say now,
as / have frequently said before, thai
whenever Senator under
takes the discussion Of a question:, his
penetration and analysis Of it is as
clear and fOrCible as that OF any OF
our public men. From a we'll con-
sidered, we'll prepared and we'll writ
ten speech Gas it was afterwards dis
lOnt, ~ ~
throughout North Carolina) made by
the senator in Snow Hill, North Caro-
lima, on October II, 1902, while III
was chairman of the Democrat
Executive committee. I make The
following pertinent extracts:
Protection Has Not Increased
the Price Of Lumber.
WE are told that protection
has has greatly increased the
price of lumber: that lumber sold
for $500 a thousand under
Cleveland and the Wilson bill,
and is now selling under the
Dingley bill for $500 a thous-
and. The duty upon yellow pine
lumber is only $500 a thousand
and enly $1.00 on white pine. If
the manufacturers of lumber
should get the full benefit Of this
protection, it would only increase
the price of lumber $500 per
thousand. II protection has added
that, what has added the other
$500 increase in the price of
lumber? If that other thing,
whatever it is. has increased the
price $500, why may it have not
increased it the full amount. or
$500? How does a. duty Of $500
a thousand exclude Canadian
lumber when the price has in
creased $500. Cannot. the Cana
dian manufactures pay the $500
tax md still have a profit of
$500?
More Lumber Imported Under
h Dingley Bill.
The a~bSurdity of the Republi-
can contention that the present
high prices Of our lumber is be-
cause the Dingley tariff excludes
from our markets the lumber of
other countries is shown by the
TACT chat under the Dingley tariff
In 1900, there was imported into
this country $2O,591 ,908 worth of
wood, while under the Wilson
tariff, in 1895, there was imported
INTO THIS country only SIT, SALT
VI "ooa ana the manufacture Of
Mooo. RMS shows that il is not
the Dingley tariff which has made
our high markets., but that orr
nl5h markets have male the
Dlisley tariff of no effect in
checking foreign competition in
ne pIoductS of our forests.
iariH Has Nothing to do With
Tie Prices of Lumber
oo.,e run is, II tariff has had
in tn 70 DO with the increase
iunbert. It does not oonann.
;s Sithss lumber. Their,s
W. AZ white pine and hem1ocL
HaVe no white pine to 49,