Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-29
GETTING NEAR HOME.
Somerset County Experiencing Some
Psychological Depression.

Psychological Depression.
Iskowhegan Correspondent Bangor Netes.l
The Hsrtlsnd wooden mill closed Sat-
urday for an indefinite time, and the
superintendent, and also the foreman OF
the mill, give as the reasons, business de-
preston. This mill has suffered by the
tariff, and the owners assert that not in
ten years has the business been so poor
as in the past year.
Two paper mills in this county are rum
ming as they term it "from hand to
mouth" on orders something that has
| not been done in the past five years, and
the superintendent OF one of these mills
stated that, until the past year, the mill
could not keep up ON its orders, and there
has not been q time until the past year
that the mill had not work enough to run
extra machines, where to-day the regular
machines are hardly running.
| The owner OF another paper mill in the
county stated Friday that, with the pres
ent tariff and the effect that it is having
on the paper business in this State, in two
years the paper industry will be at stand
still. This same man said that, with the
| tariff walls OF Canada down and six new
paper mills being rushed to completion
there, in two years Maine would be a
dead issue in the paper business.
These things are not mentioned for the
purpose OF crying hard times but, con-
| sidering that democratic paper in re-
cent issue displayed from the paper trade
| journals the news report that the Savage
Manufacturing Co. in Skowhegan had
been incorporated, thus trying to prove
that the paper business was good, the
people ask for the facts in regard TO BUSH
ness.
The manager OF one of the paper COM
panies that was referred to in this demo-
cratic paper stated only last week that one
OF the company's mills was shut down be-
cause of business depression, and that an
other one of their big mills was going, but
very slack and orders coming hard, some
thing that has not happened to the COM
pany before in many years. One manu-
factursr OF paper stated that unless he
was furnishing his goods under contract
he could not keep running.
That these reports as given herewith
are true, one may easily determine by
personal interviews with the manufactur-
ers themselves. For the most part, only
the paper manufacturing business has
been mentioned here. as one democratic
paper considered only this business, but
this business is by no means the only one
affected by the tariff.
superintendent of wooden mill in
this county, who is a democrat, has adj
mitted that he is disappointed in the ad-
ministration. He said he had not believed
that his business would be affected by the
tariff law, but he had found out that it
had been running on short time, and has
even been shut down longer and at more
frequent periods than has been the case in
other years.
That the workmen in the various mills
realize. that business is slack is shown in
their conversations among themselves
In one mill where there used to be dis
, cussions about the man to vote for for
President. and that usually ended in
favor of Wilson, now these same work
men say it is the democrats that are max
ing hard times, and they end up by saying
that they will never vote the democratic
ticket again.