The Review.
Towanda, Pa. Saturday, March 6, 1880.
EDITORS :
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The Tariff on Paper.
It is currently reported that as soon as
the bill for reducing the duty on steel
rails Is out of the way, a strong and well
concerted movement will be made to
place printing paper 011 the free list. The
reasons alleged for such action are not
without plausibility; it will unquestion
ably command powerful support, and it
may be successful if no effort equal to the
occasion be made in opposition.
• Publishers of newspapers and periodi
cals, whose selling prices are fixed and
not easily raised, naturally feci the re
cent advance in the cost of paper, and in
looking for a remedy may lose sight of
the lessons of the past in their eagerness
for immediate relief. Application to
Congress for the removal 01 'he duties
seems to be the easiest and most direct
step to accomplish this, and we may
therefore expect to see the all-powerful
newspaper interest enlisted on behalf of
the measure with an earnestness that will
almost insure its success.
Yet in this we think that the newspaper
interests will be in error, and that a
cooler and wider view of the subject
would lead them to deprecate rather than
to encourage all such agitation. We
speak as consumers, and for the interest
of newspapers and printers only, wlfcn
we counsel a conservative policy and ac
quiescence in the existing condition of the
market, confident that if unwise legisla
tive interference he abstained from, the
question will settle itself b}* the natural
operation of supply and demand, and in
the long run the consumer will receive
his paper at lower rates than if he now
seeks temporary relief by striking at his
sources of supply.
No business man could have watched
the course of the paper maket during the
recent past without admitting that during
the first nine months of IS7O, prices were
unusually low, and that a reaction was
inevitable. Domestic rags were quoted
at a figure that scarcely paid for their col
lection and preservation, so that stocks
011 hand gradually fell oil'to a point lower
than had almost ever before been known.
The cheapness of paper stimulated its
consumption in every way; and to this
must be added the clause in the new pos
tage law permitting samples of periodicals
te be mailed at pound rates, leading to an
enormous distribution of gratuitous cop
ies, which caused a very lively demand
for paper during the closing months of
the year. To meet this demand, it was
found that the supply of paper stock was
short, and stock consequently advanced
with almost unprecedented rapidity.
Abroad, though the demand for paper
was limited by the prevailing commercial
depression, yet one imsprtant source of
supply for rags was cut off by the Ger
man prohibition of importing Russian
rags, owing to the dread of plague iu
fectlon.
In view of all these causes, combined
with the goueral increase of prices and of
consumption caused by the revival of pros
perity, our wonder is, not at the advance
in paper, but rather that the advance has
not been greater. It has not kept up with
the advance in the price of stock, and the
average price of the several grades to-day
Is but little greater than what it was in
the free-trade times before the war.
The remedy lies, not in admitting pa
per ftee of duty and creating ail interne
cine conflict between our own mills and
the massive capital represented by the
Belgian Association, for the losses on
which consumers in the long run will
have to pay one party or the other, but by
quietly economizing, avoidingall unneces
sury waste, and waiting for the inevi
table reaction which will shortly follow
the existing inflation in the paper stock
market; or by making a ternporary ad
vance in the subscription prices. Pres
ent prices of paper, w bile to some extent
restricting consumption, will soon begin
to draw forth more abundant supplies
and the market will settle itself on a
reasonable basis of price, which may be
regarded as permanent for some years at
least. Free trade, on the other hand, will
not give our manufacturers their stock
any cheaper, but will lead to incessant
fluctuations of values—a state of things,
of all others, most ruinious to journalis
tic interests, the prosperity of which by
reason of the necessity of fixing subscri
ption and advertising rates ahead, de
pends, more than in any other business,
on stable markets.— Phi tilers' Circular.
Suit was begun in the United States
circuit court Philadelphia yesterday by
Edward Murphy against the Pennsylvania
railroad company to recover damages for
bodily injuries austained by reason, as al
leged, of gross negligence on the part of
the defendant and its servants. The com
plaint sets forth that in June, 1878, one
Potter shipped seven horses valued at
S2OO each, from West Philadelphia to Jc-r
--sey City, and employed the plaintiff to ac
company said horses in the car in which
they were placed, and to care for them on
the passage. When the train reached Pen
uypack station the plaintiff entered
the car by means of a ladder from the top,
and having attended to his duties, was
about going out, when the train was start
ed, and lie was thrown violently upon the
track, his leg crashed between the wheels
of one of the cars, and his body otherwise
injured. By reason cf such injury the
plaintifl was obliged to have his leg whol
ly amputated, thereby crippling him for
life, and lie fixes ins damages at. .$2">,000.
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