Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-26
The Newspaper Daniels Explanation.

under the caption. John Norris
Boards the Lion in His Den" Consid-
cred from q standpoint Of the trade
arrangement being actually reciprocal
the argument would DE passably logi-
cal but taken as conditions exist is
as far of as usual. Were the pro-
posed agreement reciprocal the farm
ers. Iaborers and other consumers
would not oppose il. The sort of
reciprocity Blaine and Mckinley advo-
Gated would have been acceptable to
all but the juggled pretense now
called reciprocity" is growing less
popular every day Its erstwhile
friends are forsaking il and, according
TO the Androscoggin HIGH JINKS''
expert, are joining the Farmer Lori
mer combinesters.
The National and various State
Oranges oppose the present plan be-
cause the proposed schedule aims to
admit on the free list practically
80 AAt4AlE AAft 4nAttiEi GdASGS lot Hldf-
ket. Yet provides no appreciable re-
duction on the articles commonly pur-
chased by the farmer. There is no
getting away from the fact that if the
treaty is ratified it will cause the
farmer 10 sell his products under free
trade conditions, yet forcing him still
10 make 81 his purchases upon con-
tinned high protection basis. and we
may safely say that fully 81 per cent.
OF the 6,000.0 900 farmers of the country
heartily back the Changers. and that
other millions of laborers employed at
various industrial eallings and those
opposed 10 such apparent unfairness
stand behind the Changers and the
farmers
The Massachusetts State Grange has
recently issaed a comparative table
with the deadly parallel idea, which
Is perhaps the most readily compre-
hensive argument that has been nut
forth against the reciprocity fake. In
the first column Of the Bay State
Grange table are shown 40 articles of
common production on the farms of
the United States. all Of which are to
come In free If the treaty is ratified.
In the parallel column are listed 40
aftleies OF common use in the average
farm home, on not one of which does
the treaty provide any reduction, but
whose continued tariff tax ranges from
10 per cent, all the way up TO S25 ner
ton. Copies of this vivid argument
are being posted in all the Grange
halls of the State.
me Lewiston opponent of the
farmer now shunts the chief blame
Tor the opposition to its pet scheme
upon the paper trust, and declares
'hat this trade organization takes lis
interest IN defeating Canadian reci-
pfoeity In AN 'intelligently selfish
manner" 1t says:
a monopoly in unreasonable restrain
its , ~onnestie trade, naturally preserves
..fs
elgner at a cut price CANADIAN nanar
LIN! niiiIs are greatly bothered by America
g Uo,ps ana IS classification of this type
worth The while when il involves tartsy
Wal and robbery of the consumar9 ~ 70
NJ lhe junction of the American protec-
~, system to trustify the domestic mar
on tb a.'1 9o. IMPOSE cut-throat competition
81 ~ .i. s iofelgn market Shall we be bet
NJ III, II while we rob buyers at home
We ahenate our neighbors who are onr
Dest customers? 'i
ftlf 10 not A.
protective system to encourage waste
iulhess IN the forest or in the min na1,ch
Iess 10 encourage mills TO use ohsoieta
a,.., contrary 10 the demands or
SOUND capital and OF a fair markat Tba
most implacable enemy of Taft'S cana
diaii agreement is the paper combine
Willeh mas packed the Senate finance
committee, whose controllers act 49, o,,
palu attorneys for the trusts hut y,nr,
effectively, as il We're. in that canacitv
o oratt OF political and Industrial co.
t opr, sion' EVEN should paper trust,
harvester trust and lumber trust succaed
IN delaying Tafts reciprocity agreement
the combnesters cannot defeat il Tbat
a s.ss is bound to become law
should mere be long delay, punishment
worthy the ohense will be administerad
TO such political and Industrial connhiaCi
~ ptiVeft Iatts 1903 platform and DELAY
the development of amiable trade rel
tons between ourselves and Canada
amity essential To honest capital. TO TAI.
wages and to the profitable productivity
- t''N 90 w SET III Maine $ pDtato
crop. Doubling up our fists to our best
customer is stupidity If honestly selfish
Mr.. Norris contends that American
speculation in Canadian timber lands
whose product cannot now be proftablv
exported to the United States figlIres
extensively in the operations of the
American paper trust. He urges the net
result viii be inevitable removal 10 Can
ada of American paper plants not in
TOUGH with American forests-since theV
cannot secure raw material from this
country. save at prices fixed by less than
200 persons controlling almost the entire
forests Of the United States Hence free
wood and pulp for print paper are es-
senti3l 10 the salvation Of America
paper mills For the Forestry Combine
hardly has bur 10 or II years supply for
the entire country and under tariff war
with Canada the Forestry ana Lumber
combines viii make fabulous profit in
the future.
In the Canadian agreement both prfut
paper. wood pulp and logs win be made
free barring only such logs and pulp
as come from Crown lands,-on condition
that we admit Canadian print paper du-
~ free The tariff board report indicates
we can do business In American pa per
mills on free basis provided we improve
pur mills and bring them up TO date
The old theory that labor In our pulp
bnills needs protection. Is exploded by
she tariff board report 50 far as Canada
concerned Illuminated by The tarfi