The Huttig news., 1909-06-26

employees engaged in the manufacture of lumber, representing population of approximately i9o.o0o souls who are fed and clothed. we'll or ill. as the price of lumber justfies the scale of wages to 1 be paid.
 The masses who will be benefited by any reduction in the price of lumber are not our home people or people of the South. but people who consume the 95 per cent of the lumber manufactured within our State and who are. practical | y all of them, protected in the indus | tries in which they are engaged under he proposed Payne bill The lumber men are forced to buy from the Northern farmer horses and mules protected by a duty of $50 per head, hay with duty of S4 per ton. corn with duty of 5 cents per bushel. engines and boilers with duty of 45 per cent. machinery with a with duty of 45 per cent, trucks and logging cars with a duty of AS per cent. band saws with duty of cents per pound and 20 per cent, orossout saws with duty of 5 cents per foot. l circular saws with a duty of 20 per cent. cotton and rubber belting with a duty of 50 per cent. axes with duty of AS per cent..hatchets with a duty of AS per cent, harness with duty of 55 a. | 100 per cent. and thus through the list everything that the Southern lumberman needs for his use in building and opera ting saw and blaming mills is taxed or protected by duty ranging about in pro- portion as those above referred to. and the laborng classes and skilled mechan- ics and the vast number of office men connected with this industry buy their food and rainment from the N rthern farmer and manufacturer through ou Southern merchants, who are dstribut- ors of these goods Their flour which is protected under the proposed Payne bl. by duty of 2P per cent. bacon and hams cents ger pound, pol atoes 2t per cent per bushel, butter cents per pound, eggs cents per dozen. onions 4o cents per bushel apples 25 cents pei bushel, cheese 6 cents4per pound cab page cents each, fresh beef 5 cents per pound, poultry cents per pound ana their shoes, hats. clothing, cotton ane. woolen goods and everything, in fact which goes to make up their ralnment protected by a duty from 25 per cent te l5 per cent advalorum.
 The masses. therefore. who will b. oeneftted by the reduction of the dut on lumber are those people who are en toying already. and will continue to en Joy protection for the commodities whicl, they are exchanging with us for ou. i lumber
 Other building material which we pul chase outside of our State is protectet IS follows:
 Fire brick, 50 4s- 100 per cent advalo fffetn.
 Common brick. 25 per cent.
 l Cement. 25 2O- per cent
 l Lime, 25 z2- 100 per cent.
 | Plaster (ground). 29 l4-lOO per cent
 very large per cent of the comnod ties referred to are purchased iron Northern and Western farmers and man
 ifacturers by our large wholesale mer -hants in Shreveport. Monroe and Alex tndria and other distributing centsrs throughout; North Louisiana and sold tt various mills in their respective territor Q be consumed in the construction ano operation of mills or in the clothing ant feeding of the vast number of laborers skilled mechanics and professional men
 olnected with the lumber business who are citizens of our State and whose wages are dependent on the price ob tained for lumber and will neoessafil. be reduced should the tariff be remove, from that commodity
 The removing of the tariff on lumbe, will not result in any benefit whatever to the oonsu tuner in the South for the reason we are too far removed from the point of invasion. The Canadian manufacturer can and will. if this tariff is removed, take from the manufacturers of the United States quite large territory along the Canadian border which will necessarily deprive us of the trade which we have built up in that territory and will, therefore. result in loss of busi- ness and necessitate curtaiment of the output of the mills in this country to just the extent the Canadian mills can get control of our territory.
 We are manufacturing now in the United States all of the lumber the coun- try will consume, and in fact just now we are manufacturing more than the country is consuming. but under normal conditions the growth of this country is just about keeping pace with the amount of lumber which is being manufactured The abolishing therefore of the lumber tariff will benefit nobody except the Canadian manufacturers and | if ie well to oheerve tho h., yJoef Eyb4 f,,