The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-07-14

elatlve to the duty on pulp Cor the
manufacture of print paper is cited
as an instance The newspaper puo-
fishers of the country have addressed
an open letter to Senator Aidrich
which is herewith presented:
Washington. D. c., June -. 1909.
lion. Nelson W. Aldriyh,
United states Senate.
Washington. u. &.
Ny Dear Sir: ON Friday last YOU
made a statement in the Senate tp.
3544, Cong RecD that neither the
international Papcr company nor any
other company had evec made
| charge of $3.50 hundrou or $50
| per tom for news print paper. ana
sure there must have been 4 lapse
OF memory on your part, which Nou
will be glad to correct vince yplr at
| tention is called to it, If YOU win re-
! fer to the Report of the House. Con-
mittce HEARINGS on Paper and Pulp
! (p. 23p, you will find tn testimony
of Gen. FeliN Agnus Of tna baltimore
American. in which he sa.'s: have
now a contract with the International
| Paper company, and | am paying them
$3.50 per hundred" The Providence
Journal in your state is AMI has been
raging $3.50 per hundred. BESIDES
these cases, you will ln1 hundreds
of other instances in the s2mo report,
What Record shows,
Again on page 1852 of the Congress
sional Record YOU said: 1T is true
that the paper companies did con-
slider an advance which perhaps was
not justified, at one time in 1907: they
talked about it. They pu, up thoi"
prices. but never sold any paper al
| those prices The testimony cf every
one of $500 daily newspapers and Of
| every man in the paper trade viii re
flute this extraordinary misstatemrnr
The House Committee reported p
1870 that the actual advance in price
aggregated five million dollars per an
mum up to May. 1908.
Again you state (p. 3549) that wood
for making print paper could be found
in every state of the union from
Maine to Texas. The slightest inquiry
from any authoritative source would
have convinced you of your error.
The same is true of your statement
that mechanical ground wood can be
made from eight or ten different kinds
Of wood (p. 3549, Cong. RecD
You said the pulp wood shipped an
nually from Canada to the United
States. one million cords is a neglibe
quantity
False Attitude.
Your rctalatory program against
Canada eontradicts your own state
meht, or you are needessly precipita-
ting a trade war with that country
and imperilling business intercbanges
that amount to $25O,00O,OO0 per an
mum.
You also said (p. $3.50, Cong. Rec) {:
"A large part of the print paper now
being used in this country is made
| from sulphite pulp" If you will make
any investigation on the subject you
will be convinced that such is not the
fact.
You also said (p. 3549, Cong. Rec)
| There is no possibility of there being
such shortage of wood in this coun-
try as will prevent our mills from
making indefinitely all the print pa
per that can be used" Then why did
the paper companies buy 10000
square miles of spruce land in Can
ada? Was it for speculation at our
expense? Forester Pinchot has fixed
a range of from eight and a half years
| in New York State to 28 and
a half years in Maine as the limit. on
basis of present consumption.
More Misrepresentation.
You said (p. 3549, Cong Rec) ::
There are mills engaged at this mo-
ment in making paper (meaning news
print paper) in Virginia. North Caro-
lima, and in several other southern
states We are not able to trace a
mill in any southern state that is ma
king news print paper.
You said tp. 3545, Cong. RecD: T
asked the Census Bureau if they had
ever made an investigation of this kind
(wood) and they said they had not"
The undersigned was present in your
office on April "a, when you teIephon-
ed to DR.. North, Your inquiry relat-
ed not to wood. but to an entirely diff
ferent. phase Of the plperi industry.
Your statement (p. 3545. Cong
! iN'''J tildl tIttft lldu DttQ no lnVeSti-
CATION of the pulp wood by the Cen
sus Bureau, you certainly do not want
to stand upon. in the light Of the fact
that such Investigations have been
printed by the Census Bureau and
Forestry Service Jointly and are cas-
lily accessible to any one. Senator
Brown of Nebraska, standing at vour
side, and touching elbows with Won at
that time, showed To you the govern
ment imprint upon those reports.
You said: The class COT newspa-
pers) who can only see an additional
cost of perhaps so a ton in the parsv
in the discussion and disposition of a
great question like this are so unim-
portant that they should not be con
sidered here" (p. $500. Cong. Recl.
This astounding staten ent, in the light
of the fact that the daily press of the
United States, including over $500
daily newspapers stands practically
as unit on this question. with not
to exceed twelve dissenting coiccs. must
convince you of the unwisdom of your
statement, to say the least. The 81