Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-06-18
PRINT PAPER DUTY
NOW HIGH ENOUGH
Senator Brown, of Nebraska, De-
clares in Senate Speech That
Print Paper Industry Doesn t
Need Protection.
Try Associated Press.l

WASHINGTON. June 1T.-Denounc-
ing as inexcusable and indenfensible
any proposition OF finance committee
to Increase the low rate fixed by the
house bill for the protection of the print
paper industry, Senator Brown, of Ne
braska, in the senate today declared
that that industry needs no protection.
These paper mills, he insisted, have
an advantage over every foreign print
mill, whether they are in Scandinavia,
Germany or Canada.
Canada. is our only competitor in
this market" said MIR. Brown. The
seas and the inferior product of Other
countries than Canada protect the mills
OF the United States against all compe-
,.tion worth mentioning.
QUESTION DEPENDS.
This question depends on the cost
Of production at home and abroad. If
foreigners can manufacture print paper
for less than. il costs Americans that
amendment OF the finance committee
might ind justification. If the fact
be as l shall prove il is. that print pa
per can be made and is being made at
less cost here than elsewhere, then
any duty in any amount is wholly wrong
in principle and utterly uncomfortable and
extortionate in practice.
subject in 1901. The testimony in that
investigation showed that the American
mills had an advantage of So per ton
in the cost Of production of print paper.
Following that report the manufactur-
ers OF Canada petitioned their govern
ment TO continue the % per cent ad va
loren duty on paper importations.
The statement Of the Booth mills in
Canada shows the cost of production to
be Bali per ton.
The testimony before the house COM
mittee shows the cost per ton of the print
paper made by the international Paper
company OF the United States to be 27.74.
Another significant fact shown in the
hearings before the house committee is
that western publishers testified that
they bought paper from the Booth mills
in Canada and paid the duty and then got
II for less than they could have purchased
II from the trust.
HIGHER WAGES IN CANADA.
Our counsel in the province of Quebec
reported that the laborers in the Cana
dian mills receive as high, IL not higher
wages than those in American mills.
I'm 50 news print paper mills in this
country General Brown said there are
ls.4b9 employees, while the newspapers
and periodicals using their output employ
1E.6SS persons. Every one of these news
paper employees, he said, is affected by
the increase In the rate of paper which
has taken place in the last few vars.
The print paper mill In 1908 had an an
nuai payroll Of $40, sS0.sss. while the payroll
OF the newspapers and periodicals In 1905
was sos. sls9. r..
The testimony before the house COM
mittee," said Mr.. Brown, shows that
the International Paper company itself
went into Canada and purcha sed large
amount Of print paper to keep the Amer
lean publishers from buying it and this
they parceled out among their foreign
customers. Because of this purchase of
foreign paper the trust had too great a
supply on hand and was compelled to
shut down twenty-four paper machines.
while the surplus was being consumed in
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