The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-01
TARIFF WAR WITH CANADA

$ In circular letter issued by Cnalr-. nan Norris of the American Newspa- per Publishers associations commit lee on Paper, there appears the fol- E owing in relation to the predicted tarin war between this country and canadas
 V At the outset the Dominion claimed lmati if the American paper mills want K Hd to obtain their supply of pulpWood rom Canada free of any export sharge, the American paper makers \ Mould not object to reasonable rate z r& duty on paper made in Canada from ,illp wood. Committee of the House of Representative after a. ten t1dnthss study of the subject approV. skd of that view, which was confirmed sS1d ratified by the Ways and Means sSrnuatttee, and by the House of Rep feAentatives Senator Hale (who has sA0n in the paper business objected 2 ia Ekafes Senate, to please. him, upset and raised the rate above that pass fd bF the House The Provinces of Canada now declare that since the x Gnited States has refused to admit E print baper upon reasonabley terms, they Will protect Canadian interests by neetfng retaliation with retaliation, knd wilt force many of the American print paper mills to move to Canada, Canadian retaliation will strike Am-
 
 < cotton, iron and meat, fruit and auto- mobiles, oil and live stock. But the Cost serious feature of the prospec-
 war is that which affects wood
 ducts; valued af $30.000, 900, brought
 0 the United States from the Do, Ifnion. The existing conditions in the pre- licted tariff wal" are thus summarized Yin the, circular above mentioned.
 
 Treasury Department, dated Aug. 26, 1909. imposing q retaliatory duty of $2 per ton on print paper and $1.67 per 5ton son mechanically ground \ wood, made from wood; cut from Crown lands. in the ProHinces of Que Quebec ssea1n and me1lted the duty of s3.75 per ton fixed by the Payne Bill.
 End. The announcement of Premier Goufn September 6. 1909, that the Province of Quebec, would join with l the Province efs- Ontario and prohibit the exportatfon of unnanufactured wood cut from Crown lands. srd. Beginning March 31, 1910. the Payhe Law imposing 25 per cent. ,ad- valorern duty or 101s million dollars |additional duty, on AZ million dollars worth of imports to the United States from the leading provinces of Canada. 4th. Threat by Canada that if the naximum tariff of the Payne Law is 4nT0TC6Q plying it's Surtax Act of 1903, adding bne- third to duties on articles from khy country which discriminates kainst Canada. This is equivalent to 1 addition of 71z million dollars duty h articles sent from the United Hates to Canada. 5th Canadian Manufacturers As- ociation, at Hamilton, Ontario last Feek asked the Canadian Govern lent to stop the exportation not mere
 of wood cut from Crown lands, but all unmanufactured wood, whether dt from Crown lands or private lands all of the nine Provinces of the De- linfon. . stu Threat by Canada to. stop im- ortations from the United States to ax1ada, which amount to 167N million pillars per annum. Affogether the threatened war men ce89 interchanges of the two countries 11ounting to 250 million dollars per hntffn, and: this has been brought bout to bolster a combination of pa Der mills.
 As Canada buys s2 worth of Ameri nan manufactures to every $1 worth
 Canadian goods (nostly raw mater is) bought by us, it appears that a
 tariff war would operate very ma keffaIly to our disadvantage. And he whole trouble seems to have aris- En from the fact that near relative # Senator Hale of Maine is connect with the manufacture of print pa er. The American people may be fore d to pay heavily for the protection of enator Hales relative-a protection khich is not needed but is only in ended to increase his profits at the xpense of all users of print paper.
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