Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-18

Inc semitic ppltb itpN'.- $3.50
schedule placing a lower duty than is
provided by the Dingley law or the
house bi1l.
Because of intense competition by
German manufacturers the duty on IL
Illustrated postcards was increased 32o
per cent above the Dingley law
The schedules relating to photographic
papers, calendars, cigar bands and such
products were adopted.
SENATOR BRoWJN's. SPEECH.
Denouncing as measurable and indie
feasible any proposition&of the iinance
committee to Increase the low rate iixed
by the house bill for the protection OF
the print paper Industry, senator send.
Brown OF Nebraska declared that that
Industry needs no protection. These
paper. mills, he insisted, have an az
vantage over every foreign print nnli,
whether they are in Scandinavia, Ger
many or Canada.
"Canadais our only competitor IN tlis
MARKET, said MIR, Brown. The seas
and the inferior product of other couil-
tries than Canada protect the mills OF
the United States against all coInpeti-
ton worth mentioning. This question
depends on the cost Of production AT
home and abroad II the foreigners can
manufacture print paper for less IMAM
IL costs Americans, that amendment OF
the finance committee might ma JUS
ti1cation II tho fact he, as shall
prove il is that print paper Is being
made at a less cost here than elsewhere,
then any duty in any amount ~ wholly
wrong in principle and unenduraple anu
cxtortionate in practise.
"Canada had an investigation INTO the
subject in 1901, which showed that INC
American mills had an advantage OF 40
per ton in the cost of production of
nrInt paper. Following that report,
The manufacturers of Canada petitioncd
their government to continue the IN
per cent ad yalorcn duty on paper I'M
portations.
..The statement of the Booth mills in
Canada shows the cost Of prohuctci 70
DO s341l per ton. The testimony pc
fore the house committee shows the
cost per ton Of the print paper made.
nv the International Paper company
Of the United States to be $2I.7d. Ans
other significant fact shown In Inc
hearings before the house committee
Is that western publishers testified
that they bought paper from the Booth
mills II, Canada and paid the duty and
then got 1t for less than they could
have purchased it from the trust.
"Our consul In the province Of Que
bee reported that the laborers in the
Canadian mills receive as high If not
higher wages than those in American
mills. 1t Is undisputed by the testl-
mony taken by this committee that
many of the workmen in tho canadian
mills are American citizens and receive
higher wages than when IN the United
States"
In 80 news print paper mills in this
country. he said, there are 19,449 en-
ployes, while the newspapers and perl
odicals using their output employ 14o,
6aS persons.
Every one OF these newspaper e1n-s
ployes, he said is affected by the M
crease in the price of paper which mas
taken place in the last few years. The
Print paper mills in 1908 had an annual
pay roll of SO, $3.50, 632 While the payaroli
Of the newspapers and periodicals In
1906 was s106. 9t9. 1885,
1.-THE testimony before the house COM
mittee,'t said Mr.. Brown shows that
The International Paper company itself
went into Canada and purchased
large amount of print paper to keep the
American publishers from buying u,
and this they parcelled out among their
foreign customers. Because of this
purchase of foreign paper, the trust
had too great a supply5on hand and
was compelled to shut down ~ paper
machines while the surplus was being
consumed in American presses. And
the protected laborers on these "a ma
chimes were compelled to find other
jobs
prospered. he said until today Amer
lean mills produce more than 10000 /.
tons of print paper annually and are
able to supply the American market
"Ground wood pulp is made very
largely from the spruce tree, with a
limited amount from the hemlock tree,
he said
1.-THE spruce Is already nearly exhast-
ed in the United States. The govern
ment forest service estimates that there
are 10, 900, 900 acres of spruce forests east
of the Rocky mountains. The spruce
on the Pacific coast is more valuable fol
lumber, and Is used only in limited
quantities for making paper''
Senator Brown drew the following
conclusions at the end OF his argument:
"tour pulp supply is nearly exhausted
''The pulp wood supply Of Canada; IS
apparently inexhaustible.
Free pulp would tend to conserve our
pulp wood,
..The production cost of pulp paper is
less in the United States than it is in
Canada.
"a ton OF news print paper costs IN
Canada s2a.54 to manufactures; in the
United States 1t costs S2E74 per ton.
THE print paper market is controlled
|, In the United States by a combination.
and whatever duty the law may fix will
assist the combination in that control
in violation OF the law to the injury
and outrage of the public
by reason of such control. the cost
OF print paper 10 the consumer has been
arbitrarily advanced to an unreasonable
and uncomfortable price profit 10 the
manufacturer.
Print paper advanced from SIS in
1907 to s42 and $50 per ton in 1908,
THE Importation of print paper for
all time has been negligible, The pro
posed duty OH pulp and print paper Is
the :affc,i e-l.ot sileee:sI -. to.1 protective
purposes nor useful for revenue pur
poses. 1t is therefore an outlaw duty
and should be stricken from the bill