Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1915-12-17
NOT IN THE DAYS NEWS
Being Some Some Sp-ighy Forceul
Events Contributed Every a While
ROBERT
By ROBERT S DOUBLEDAY.

cally at this time that wages are less
in all Canadian numbering districts"
than they are in the United States,
that being prima facie evidence, as
previously remarked, of thriving in
dustry"-from the standpoint of the
twenty-billion-dollar lumbermen.
According to the authority referred
to, the numbering industries of Can
ada are thriving" because wages are
low there and because the wicked and
destructive Democrats have opened
the way for slightly freer exchange
Of products between the two countries
to the undoubted benefit of the people
of whole. And, adversely, lumber
manufacturing industries in the
United States have been dull, with
mnay closed mills and with unsatis-
fed -billion-dollar timber own.
ers, this because wages are high with
us, and lumber cheaper by reason OF
Democratic destruction; most un-
desirable state of things, indeed.
The National City Bank, of New
York, which can hardly be said to be
in sympathy with any genuinely DEM
ocratic tendencies or administration,
in a recent issue of it's financial re-
view, gave three reasons for the de-
preston in numbering. enphasizing
the sin of speculation-in timber
made no mention at all Of
any i'll effect from the present tariff
laws. The formost lumber journal In
the United States has made practi-
cally the same statements. President
J. H. Bloedel. of the West Coast Lum-
Der Manufacturers association, and
his associates, made somewhat SINH
lar statements short while ago be-
fore the federal trade commission,
adding that ''over-production was :
great contributing cause to the de-
preston suppose, BY this token.
We are expected to assume that every
body in the country has more manu-
factured lumber than he needs. In
Mr.. Bloedel has three rom
edies to propose. He suggested that
there should BE- Regulation that would
permit OF ''combination to limit and
control productioa." This. suppose.
In the interest Of those who would
like to buy lumber, which means prac-
tically everybody. And he proposed
that selling agency" combinations
;hould be legalixed. Both these forme
81 combination have heretofore been
made Illegal because they are 20 man
ifestIy inimical to public interest,"
The third proposal for relief wa
that taxes on timber lands should ~
greatly reduced % that those who
possess the twenty billion dollars
worth Of timber should not tel
obliged to sell It in order to avoid
paying back to the people. through
governmental taxes, any part what
soever OF the increased value which
the people themselves have siven e
the timber. It was broughts out thas
the great timber holdings wsre
bought, Tor the most part. # Sisst
An acre and the presence and activi-
ties and needs Of society have M
creased the value 81 these until they
are now worth from twenty to one
hundred dollars an acre or even
more. And 1t seems that 70 taks
back even tribe OF this unearned
value from the poor twenty billion
dollar timber owners - tsndency
to make them open mp their land,
sell their timber. make more iumDeF
and therefore cheaper, employ more
labor and thereby also raise Wares
all OF these things being very III m
deed-for the poor timber owners.
|One cannot refrain from dohing the
chapeau to Mr.. Bloedel for his tndt-
yidually honest. candid. common
sense presentation. whatever We nay
think Of his recommendations. "A
any event, there was no reference g
the iniouities Of the Democratic AZ
m,nistration or the present tarin'
this being reserved no doubt for tine
secret conclave and the special cor
respondence" in Republican newspa-
pers.
Now. let US hear from some otner
authorities upon these matters Om-
cial investigation some time ago re-
yealed the fact that certain Coast
milling interests had agreed among