Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-11-05

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ties by the Mann Committee ana
.it was satisfactory, they report
to the Canadian government. Blu
Senator Hale kicked it over ant
the Senate put the tariff rate a
81 per ton. Also provision il
made for the imposition Of ths
maximum tariff on foreign coun
tries witch themselves impo>. 80
export duty. That provision
strikes directly at the Province
of Quebec, which imposes a small
Stumpage tax and which imports
the greatest amount of wood
pulp. The maximum tariff would
increase the import duty by %
per cent, ad valorem, or about
$3.50 additional on each ton of pa
per. In summing up his views on
the compromise rate fixed by the
cOnfereeS Congressman Mann said
''If they have statesmen in Can
ada-and my observation and ex
perience has been that they have
wise men, men Is Eeen in refer.
ence to protective tariff as our
best leaders on this side Of the
HOuse-they will know that they
hold the whip hand; that they
have pulp wood; and not hav-
ing been offered concessions by
this country which are fair to
Canada, they will maintain for
Canada her right to manufacture
within her own borders her pulp
wood and then if we want it we
pay the price which they fix up
on it. We can not run our mills
without spruce pulp wood. When
two years ago the Western mills
went to the Province of Quebec,
and bought $4,000 cords of pulp
wood, already piled up for sale to
the Eastern manufacturers, that
purchase sent pulp wood skyward
and added from SO to S. a cord
tothe selling price within a short
time. What will be the effect if
/ the Canadians prohibit the expOr
tatiOn Of pulp wood qThe WiscOn
sin mills have paid for the spruce
pulp wood which they now have
$11.25 a cord. because they have
been compelled to go for it t(
Minnesota, which itself is shOt
Of a full supply. If those Wis
cOnSin mills could obtain pull
wood from Ontario, they cOulC
continue to manufacture print pa
per, with their great water pow
erS as against the world on evel
terms.
| But what will happen if the Ca
nadians prohibit the expectation
of pulp wOodY The price of pull
wood in Maine will increase. TIL
price of pulp wood in New HamE
shire will increase, and insteaC
of this revision of the tariff hav
} ing any effect toward reducing
, the price of print paper, tn
threat which is said to hav
r been made two wears ago that tn
print paper would be increase
to 3 cents a pound or $50 a tor
will soon have become past his
3 tory and print paper will b
: more than 3 cents a pound. An
: then l suspect that some gentle
t men upon this side of the House
@ who proposes to vote for mpOSil
I this tariff conference report W
: on the print-paper industry o
Y the country, will regret their q
titude, but they can not say the
: were not warned" '-o
n The tremendous increase /
e the price. of paper which has bee
e steadily going on for some tim
r and bids to become higher, In
t mediately raises the question q
: to what the publishers will d
+ Some say to increase the pric
of newspapers. Others say
reduce the size of the papers an
consequently the amount Of prir
paper t. he ns:d. The problem
indeed interesting and is mad
doubly vicious because COngre'
would rather permit a few intel
ested Senators to shape the woo
pulp and print paper schedule
than to accept the recommends
lions of a committee which eal
nestly investigated the subjec
and, we believe. honestly repOr
ed upon it. And this is the tai
iff bill President Taft Is now, d
Tending in his Western tour