Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-12
.P,NcHoT SAYS 1T WoULD NOT
REDUCE PRICE NOR PROTECT
THE SUPPLY
NO PULP WOOD TAX -
SAYS CHIEF FORESTER
Paper Makers Alarmed Over Report
That Their Industry is Unprotected
Proposed Coffee Tax Giving Tariff
Revisionists the Most Concern.

Washington, March IA removal
Of the tariff on lumber would neither
reduce the price to the consumer nor
preserve our forests, according to the
opinion expressed by Clifford Pinchot
chief Of the United States forest serv-
ice. in a letter to Serene &c. Payne
chairman of the house ways and means
committee.
| MIR. Pinchot holds that the funda-
mental question at issue in the lumber
tariff is forest conservation. He says
that he would favor removal of the
tariff If he Were of the opinion, which
he thinks is the cause of the demand
for free lumber that it would offer a
way to protect our forests. But am
unable to see," he says, chow free
lumber will promote forestry
There is only one way to save our
forests" he adds. THAT is to see that
they are kept at work growing new
crops of timber as the old are cut
away"
Mr. Pinchot says that "most of the
lumber we now import comes from
Canada, as most of it.would il the duty
were taken off. We are importing
from Canada only about 2 per cent as
much lumber as we are cutting from
our own forests. 1t is not likely that
under free lumber more than 5 per
cent as much would come from Canada
as we would cut at home"
Wants Free Pulp Wood.
The chief forester thinks 1T highly
important that we should have free
pulp wood in the future as in the past
and that Canada should impose no ex-
port duty upon pulp wood. In this re-
spect," he continues. "the pulp and
paper making industry is in different
position from the other great woodus-
ing industries of the United States.
The latter can be supplied wholly from
our own forests, while the former must
have free access to the Canadian spruce
forests as long as spruce is the chief
pulp wood" He declares that ground
wood should be admitted free ''pro-
vided that it comes from a country
which does not In any way restrict the
expectation of wood pulp or ground
wood, and that, there should be a re-
duction in the duty upon news paper.
providing that it comes from IL coun-
try which does not in any way restrict
the expectation of pulp wood, wood
pulp or printing paper"
Paper and pulp manufacturers have
expressed great alarm over the report
that the ways and means committee
would include in the bill the changes
in the pulp paper schedule recon-
mended in the report of the Mann COM
>mittee, which investigated the pulp and
paper questions. The American Paper
and Pulp Association, thru Its presi-
dent Arthur C. Hastings. has submit
ted a lengthy brief urging certain
changes in the recommendations made
by the select committee.
".We can not too emphatically state
that the recommendations of the Sc
lect committee fill us with ALARM" says
Mr.. Hastings, land we believe if adopt
ed would inevitably he injurious to our
industry, to the country, and ultimate
ly to the consumer"
Oppose Tax on Coffee.
The proposition that has given the
committee the most concern and which
has been the. most difficult to deter
mine Is the plan to tax coffee. Some
republican members declare that the
taxing of the breakfast table would
make it impossible for the republicans
to carry their districts at the next cleo
ton The National Coffee and Tea As
sociation wrote to the committee that
tax on coffee or tea would be unjust
to the consumer, detrimental to trade,
irritating to the masses, and, finally.
would fail to produce any material
revenuesto the government for nearly
two years to Come.