The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-17
HERALD WOULD
ROB The FARMER
GRAND FORKS DEMOCRATIC OR.
GAN BOOSTING FOR REciPRocl-
TY IN ORDER TO GET CHEAPER
PAPER-TIMEs QUOTES SOME
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Grand Forks Times: The morning
democratic paper is living illustra-
tion of the merit of the classic saying,
THE CALLED Jade winces," as well at
that less classic though more forcible
one, when someone treads on your
corns, howl" A few days ago The
Times showed by actual figures that
while papers like the morning organ
which were favoring the Canadian
reciprocity agreement would save 26
cents for each subscriber they were
advocating a policy that would rob
the half section farmer of SEES That
statement stirred up the democratic
sheet and as usual, when 1t is caught
with the goods, 1t put on it's robes Of
! righteousness, folded them so as to
hide the bad stains and posed as an
oracle OF wisdom with utter disregard
for the truth-7a very common occur
ence with it.
The point at issue is whether the
reciprocity agreement will benefit the
newspapers by giving them cheaper
print paper, and the reasons for this
change. The democratic organ says:
The statement has been made that
/ the Canadian reciprocity agreement
abolishes the duties on print and pa
per pulp. That statement is false.
Now read the provisions Of the Nc
Call bill prepared for the purpose OF
carrying the agreement into effect,
and which passed the last house. It
says:
Section 2. Pulp of wood mechanical
ly ground; pulp OF wood, chemical,
bleaehed or unbleached: news print
paper and other paper board manu-
featured from mechanical wood pulp
Eor from chemical wood pulp or of
which such pulp is the component ma
terial of chief value, colored in the pulp
or not colored and valued at not more
than cents per pound, not including
printed or decorated wall paper being
the products of Canada. when imported
directly therefrom into the United
States shall be admitted free Of duty
But there is a provision in the agree
ment covering the crown lands which
exempts the products of these lands
so far as pulp and indirectly the paper
manufactured from the timber on them
is concerned, from the provisions of
the agreement 1t is on this fact The
Herald hangs it's policy for robbing the
North Dakota farmers for little
profit for itself The Herald's argu-
ment. what little there is to it, is based
on the theory that Canada has no other
pulp timber except what is on the
crown lands For evidently 1t is not
| silly enough to contend that other
pulp and paper coming from Canada
would not be admitted free. A few
figures will show the absurdity OF The
Herald's contention as well as its utter
lack of information or deliberate pre-
varication-probably the latter. The
| following figures are taken from table
"A" of the schedule prepared by the
commissioners at page thirty-nine, and
are part of the exhibits of the agree
ment During the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1910, there were imported into
the United States from Canada pulp
wood as follows:
Mechanically ground-317, 565,515 lbs,
valued at $2.52S,2SS.
! Chemical, nbleached-75,4 46, 1O9 lbs,
| valued at $1,241,179.
Chemical, bleached-19,S45,31 9 lbs,
valued at s4sO,oSS
From these figures it will be seen
that in one year the imports of pulp
| from Canada reached the sum of,412,-
S5S,943 pounds or 206,179 tons and that
the value of these imports was $4,-
224.5OO
In addition to the pulp imported as
shown by the figures quoted above,
there were imported from Canada dur
ing the same fiscal year ending June
80, 1910, s6,766,027 pounds of the var
4 ious grades Of newspaper print, valued
at $1,615,10O. This amount would be
equal to 1895 tons or approximately
1900 carloads.
Assembling the figures quoted above
it will be seen that the total value
of the imports of pulp and paper from
Canada amount to the sum of 95,s39,59!
annually, when there is a duty which
on the products enumerated amounted
to $472,S0s, according to the statement
issued by the commissioners and from
which all the figures given herein are
taken.
Now if the crown lands restriction
The Herald's great saving clause
will prevent these things from cominE
in free, why did not the action Of
Quebec, which 1t quotes so pompous.
ly, prevent them from coming in las
year when there was duty of nearly
a half million dollars gross to hell
it?
We have violated the scripture il
not answering a fool according TO hi!
folly, and even with the figures taker
from the official reports will not en-
able us to develop intelligence in TIN
democratic organ any more than w,
have been able in the past to develop
in 1t sense of honesty.
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