The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1896, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1896. THE LUMBER INDUSTRY BLIGHTED BY FREE-TRADE AND CANADIAN P.HUPER.'L.HBOR._. Having shown how the wool industries of the United States have been ‘prostrated by the Bryan-Wilson bill, the free-trade policy formulated by Wilson and chum- pioned by “‘the boy orator of the Platte,’ it is now proposed to show, in a series of articles, how tlie lumber.business of Amer- ica has'suffered under free trade, how for- eign panper labor: depresses prices, and how the policy ably championed by Mc- Kinley afforded ample proteotion’ to the largest busifiess in America. It should be fully understood af the out- set that the lumber business of thé United States stands in magnitude abead of all otherpursults. What. is" meant-by this? First, that-its invested, capital s larger than that invested in any otlier pursuit. Then,"next to this, its product or gnnual output is the largest, it .employs rore people’and has more . establishments than any other in the form of mills and fac- tories. 1t will be-admitted by every lover of hfs | country thdt a business of flrst magnitude | ought to bave protection against any- thing that threatens td annihijlate- it or | tends to reduce the profit-aceruing there- | from t6'a sum so low that American labor- | ers are reduced to the verge of penury. It is a notorious fact that on the Pacific | Coast the milling and ‘lumber men are in- | @ bad way. In Mendocine and Humboldt counties there are' thousands of men who | know nothing about any occupation but lumbering. E “Men- have grown old:in our service,"‘ said the oldest Mendocino lumber-dealer living yesterday, “and we run our mills in order- to give them work. We' are not | earning a dollar; but we cannot make pau- pers of men who have servea -us until they are gray. Istarted in the lumber business in.'1852, and. I cannot afford’ to close my mills and turn my faithful.men out on-the world even if I am not making money. Our only hope is in a protective tariff that “will afford us some’ defense against the pauper labor and unequal con- ditions of British Columbig.”’ The following item from Iron and W of San Francisco.for this month, jssded yesterday, shows the condition of the lumber -trade. As the editor is a free- trade ‘Democrat the most bitter partisan cannot say the quotation is biased. Here | is a picture of the most important busi- | ness of the Union under the policy of free trade, championed by Bryan: The lumber trade for the past month has been in a worse condition than it has been in for years. Sales have beenlight, and the re- | ceipts show a falling off from July of last year | $14,009,847. Of this amount the ‘Puget 1d mills fall from 25,770,448 feet in July, | ¢ in 1896; Mendocino | , Humboldt | 70,854 in the same. time. Del Nort its shipments a trifle. | Lumber freights to Australia are steady, but | the demand is light, while there is no demand | for China .and West Coast. The outiook is | gloomy. The redwood mills have not as yet | shut down, and the owners seem in doubt as | to what course.to pursue. Prices remain un-‘ | American lumbermen. Chinese and Crown Lands Make American Workmen Hungry---Proteetioanas Been; Proved the Only Relief to Be Relied Upon, and Voters Must Now changed, for the demand is 80 light that in- quiries are scarce and quotations are not asked for. The Scotia mill will start up_this month, &nd if the output is placed on the market it “will only add tothe stack on hand. Altogether the outlook is far from encouraging. ‘What is Tesponsible for such a condition of affairs? Free, trade, as’ seen in the present Wilson bill, the same un-American law that destroyed the wool business and pleased shoddy. Lest .the reader, think this is a mere epithet the law résponsible for the destruction of thé lumber trade is sub- mitted, in sections. The follawing twelve sections of the Wilson bill put wood on the free list without qualification: ~ 72. Logs, and round unmanufactured tim- oot specially enumerated or provided: for in this act. 673, Firowood, haridle bolts,” stave bolts, heading bolts and shingle bolts, hop _poles, fence posts, failroad ties, ship ttmber and ship pmmmg, not ‘specially prévided for in this b7d Timber, } Bewn and sawed, and tlmbel’ used for spars-and in building wharves. Timber'squared or-sided. Sawed boards, lumber, rough or dressed, exceps boards; plank, deals and other lumber of cedar, lig- num vite, lancewood, -ebony, box, grandilla, fanhogany; satinwood, rosewood, and all other cabinet woods. 677. Pine clapboards. 678. Spruce clapboards. 679. Hubs for wheels, posts, last:. blocks, wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, heading and all like blocks or mckl. rough, hewn, or: sawed only.. 680. Laths. 681. Pickets and palings. 682. Shingles. Staves of wbfldol all kinds, woud un- manufactured. But there are people who say that'Amer- ican forests are so dense as to defy compe- tition from any quarter of the globe.." Let us see. . In 1893 foreign lurrber valued at $93,152,722 ‘was "imported into - America,” and every foof imported- interfered with © ["American prices and staid the atm of American labor: The following statistics of the Trensury Department for the periods named show how the removal of the tariff on Canadian | lumber has affected the business of the It appears from { that report that for the fiscal year.ending June 30, 1895, the total import of sawed lumber from Canada amounted’ to 539,- 574,000 feet. Forthe nine. months ending | March 31, 1896, the quantity imported was 5i 1,315000 feet, more than 12,000,000 feet the English manufacturers of planks, deals, and, other | ‘Look to Their Own Interests. i greater than for the entire previous fiscal year., 2 During the same period the imports of logs and round timber were 204,603,000 feet, showing that the - Canadian product is coming into the United States for the cur- ent fisca 1 year at a rate that will send the total over 1,000,000,000 feet before the close of it. Think of. it! A billion feet of " Canadian lumber, logs and timber coming into this country while -dimension swuff sells on the Chicago. market at $8 a thou- sand, and for millinns of.feet of coarse lumber now piled in Wisconsin and Min- nesota, the owners would be glud to realize $6 a thqusand at the mill. The quantity of logs and round timber imported from Canada’for the first nine months of the current fiscal yeas exceeds by over 50,000,000 feet the. total import of the previous fiscal vear.. The Northwestern Lumberman snvs. A tariff of 1 a 1000 would prabnbly keep 500,000,000 feet of this productout of the American market. The infiuence of that 500,000,000 feet would be felt by every .manafacturer from Maine fo Oregon, and from Mintiesota o the Gulf of Mexico. The following paragraph of the Wilson bill- mest seriously affects Pacific Coast business:- 181, Hmlse or ¢abinet fyrnitire, of wood~ wholly. or partly finishied, manufactures of woad, or of which wood is the component .material of chief value, not specially pro- vided for in this acz, 25 per centum ad valorem. |+ It was held some months-ago by the Géneral Appraisers .that tongued and gtooved flooring, ceiling and like finished products ere not lamber. dnd that they.. would have to pay 25 per cent ad. ‘valorem duty. Before that .decision was reached, however, more than 20.000,000 feet of Cana- dian lumber had teached the coast mar- - ket, greatly to the demo‘nllzn\tmn of busi- hess. . Tne matter was ‘then -carried to the United States. Circuit Court of Vermont, and Judge Wheeler holds that “‘the pres- ent tariff law provides for ‘entry, free of duty, of anything which comes under the general. head of ‘lumber.. The terms of the law itself- are -somewha} vague, and .in considering the que: tion raised in this ca se, the Board of Ge éral Appraisérs * decided. that the térm _“dressed- lumber’ meant only such lur- ber as” had been suriaced on one or two sides; that when furtlier worked te adapt the stock -for a particular use it bécame a manufacture of wood in the meaning of the law, and as such was subject to an ad valorem duty of 25 percent.”” This view of the case was upheld by twenty-four wit- nesses out of the forty-six-heard. When the decision of the Board of Gen- eral Appraisers above relerred to was made lumbermen 1n the States bordering on Canada were just beginning to feel the effects of Canadian competition on a free- lumber basis, but in that decision saw some prospect of relief. Such prospect is now dissipated, however, by .the decision of Judge Wheeler. It . is not generally understood why Canadian lumber and the products of Canadian-manufacture can be imported irto this country under free trade in such a way as to paralyze American industry. It is for several potent reasons. At the outset, the Canadian lumberman has crown. lands at low rentals, with no in- vestment of capital, no taxes and no in- terest running against him. Then, again, the British Columbian lumbermeén hire Chinese and Japaness at from 60 to 70 cents a day, the laborers boarding them- selves. What can the Amencan workmen exs pect to do against such competition? In this aspect of the case it is not strangé that the Wilson bill, a mild form of what Bryan wonld like to inflict upon the é¢oun- try, has caused universal business stagna. tion. E. M. Herrick, presxdent of the Pacific Coast Pine Lumber Company, who has given the lumber question great study, is unquestionabiy in favor of a proteciive tariff. Speaking of the general subject of protection as it affects lumber, Mr. Her- rick yesterday gave the following unan- swerable arguments and facts in favor of the ideas of protection and’ prosperity. He said: “There are some phases of the question by which the trade on this coast is differ- ently aifected than other sections. - “There are not now, and cannot be for generations to come, the slightest grounds for apprehending scarcity of timber, and consequently no jusfification whatsoever for considering the question of reciprocity, commercial union or any other form of interchange of products between'this coast and our northern " neighbors. British Co- lumbia has nothing to send to us except lumber and coal, both of-which we have in | unlimited quantities ahd the development of whiéh has interested large amounts of _capital to such extent " that the greatest of competition has been engendered on our own side, and in this respect the con- sumer is protected to the greatest possible extent; and, as a fact, the consumer has for the past year been buying, and is now buying, lumber at less than the cost of production. ““Considering the limited markets acces- sible to the lumber manufacturer on this coast, and the very large number of mills seeking the same, there is no possibility of such markets reaching the capacity of present mill plants for a number of years, except always an Eastern shipment trade by rail can be developed. There being no question as to the supply of lumber, no question as to the price at which the con- sumer gets it and no opposite conditions possible to exist for many years, it is im- possible to understand how a Gov ernment, deemed paternal, can in any way give our limited markets to our northern neigh- bors, when the efféct will be inevitably the wiping out of the presentinvested interests on the American side. “There is also another very material reason, appealing to a certain extent to National pride, that should prevent any action under which British Columbia mills can seek the markets of’ this coast. I refer to the qyestion of ship-building, an industry that bas been, compsrltlvely speaking, dormant.for some years and having its principal, if not only, activity on this coast. The fostering of ¢his in- dustry is of more than local importance; inasmuch as the character of vessels most recently built are carrying our flag to ports where it has been almost unknowr, and additionally to the stimulation of this _pride is the increased use of our lumber 1n the construction of said vessels, as well as the advertisement of its possibilities in magnificent models of American ‘ship-" building in foreign ports. “If-by reduction of duty or any form of reciprocity, British Columbia has the | ‘entree’.to our markets, a death blow fo this industry will bestruck at once. Vic- toria, the. prmcxpnl port of, British’ Colum- | bia, lies but forty miles distant from Port "Townser'xd the clearing port of Puget Round, and excepting such distance is as near to-American ports of consumption on | ! this coast as Puget Sound. The right to‘ - export iumber to any American port from | British Columbia would carry with it the right to ship same in foreign bottoms, and the lumber markets thus supplied from British Columbia by foreign tonnage | ship-building use,’created by the advent of | would practically permit foreign vessels | to engagein the coasting trade. The same conditions, to wit, lower cost of construc- tion, less wages in manning vessels, etc., that have ruined American deep-water snippmg, would thus become an entering’ wedge in similarly affecting the umppmg of the coast. “Further, 5hon]d the American mill- owner, under any imunrobable future con- ditions, be able to continué his business at: as low a cost as is possible in Brisish Co- 1u1;1bia (through governmental assistance’ in the matter of Jow rentals of crown lands, etc,) he would, in the matter of shipping his product coastwise be handi- capped by the obligation to employ anly American vessels, while- his British Columbia competitors have the ¢hoice of all flags. ~. < It would appesr, therefore, evident thnt on this coast at least (and Lopine tbnulm- ilar conditions may exist on the extreme Eastern Atlantic coast, where Maine man- ufatturers would be brought into; ccmpeu tion with those of the provinceu). -ihe opening of American markets to British-| Columbia mills means destruction to boti, American mill interests, already depresaed to the lowest limit. by overproduction, and: | the growing smpbmldmg mdnslry on this ' coast. “Well undersmdmg the nsnnl method of our foreign .competitors, even the handling of this. business would be in’ their bands: Offices representing Eng~ lish mills wouild be establihed in San Francisco and-other coast cities, suppued by foreign clerks,-and with. the manufac-’ tare, freightimg, hnndlmznnd distribution in’ the hands of our competitors the only American conpection. with- the trade would be the payment-of the bill,’and it’ does not seem - possible, theréfore, that.| -from those who'by their investments hnve lation’ of 1888, and on the receipt ot ad- vice of'any movement of Eastern manu- facturers in the ptotechon of Ametican lumber thjs Coast will be heard from with no uncertain sound.” . REPUBLICAN LEAGUE/ . Army and Navy Stalwarts Organize-a Campaign Committee. At a meeting of the executive committes of the Army and Navy Republican Leagite- of California held July 24 there wag passed a resolution unhonzmg the appmntmen: 2 of a campaign comnu;wa to have full charge of the coming political canfpaigh on behalf of the old soldier and snlnr organiaation. Pursuant to the’ msolutmn the com- mander-in-chief, General R:.A. Frigdrich, " appoinied * the following . commmee- James A. Waymire, Alameda; -T. C. Mas- teller, E: Herrick, Jay Cummin s, & W. Bushne{l San Francisco; M. D, yde,-. "Oakland, and Jamies Kipp, ex-officio: ¥ This’ committee met yesterday in the - - office of Judgé Waymire, in the Cironicle - building, and organized by-the eledtion Gi* J. A. Waymire chairman, -T. C. Masteller ‘vice-chairman: and’ Jwy Cuymmings secre-* tary. All the members were* present, and -, it was determined that the' campgign committee Would have -its’-headquartérs at .26 O'Farrell street, where the secretary may bé found At ajl nmes qurmg the cnm- -paign.’ The followm,. reso‘lutlonu were unani- mously adopted WHEREAS, Tt is the Sbject of ‘the Army and.: Navy Republican League of California i} use its best efforts to- élect the Reépublican ticket in the coming National, State and municipsl election, now therefore, be it.- Rexolved, Thiat each county 1 the State be and the same is hereby constituted a district.. to be placed incharge of tompetent represen- tatives of this league; that such representa- tives will -be appqmiod by “thie’committee at the earliest practical moment, and their du- ties shall be to organize camps. under thé sus parvg;inn and contrel of the campaign com: mitt Resolved, That wé most empHatically indozse snd approve the. National Republican plit- form upon all the issues covered by it, includ- mgme declaration in favor ‘of protection - .to American labor'and American industries, and’ also the decliration in favor of bimétallisnt by international agreement, fully believing thap Both are essential to the restorationof pros- perity and _the-maintenance “of the Honor of the Natfon for whade perpetuatian we and our comrades struggled throngh four years of war. iz ANTISN T * Archbishop Redwood’s Sermon. The Right Rev: Aschbishop Redwood- of Wellinigton, New Zealand, will preach .tg- added to the taxable wealth of the country |MOrrow, Sunday, in English, at the 11-6’clock and thus contnbuted Jdargely. to_the reve- | nues by which the State- and Nation are | supported should be taken the only trade | they have and ‘the same- handed over to | non-citizens who would . not pay one dime’| .to thé support-of either. . ‘ It goes withaut saying that the whole lumber interests on the Pacific Coast are | beart and" soul in favor of American mar- | kets, for "Amerjcan lumber. The anfic[ Coast manufacturers aré ready to take an active.part and will fight as vigorously in tha accompflshment of this protecnon [ and they trust-as successfully, as in their | | special campaign against the ‘mills’ legu- | ervice at the Chureh- of Notre Dame des Vic- tdires, Bush strept: The Archbishop is ote of the. greatest pulpit_ orators in -the’ Catholic - church,-and as'he leaves early next week tiis: 1is the only opportunity the Catholics of San ‘Francisco will héve.of nearing this eminent prelate. S g Sovcialist Arrested. William Edlin, a well-known socialist, was. arrested last evéning on eomplaint of William Meyer, who keeps & grocery-store-at the corner of Sixth and Folsom streets, and detained at the- Southe#n- police station en & charge 6f D»(ructmg the sidewalk. Meyer alteges that Edlin -is. in the habit of making Howery speeches in front of his store, which inevitably colléet a crowd of riptous young meén who |-ptevent customers from going in or coming out'of his establishment. THE WORLD'S GREATEST AND MOST SUGCESSFUL SPEGIALIST HIS NEW METHODS OF TREATING DISEASE, BASED UPON ‘THE LATEST MEDlCAL SCIENCE MAKE WOMEN HEALTHY AND }B‘EA_U,TIF,U:L. r To BE BEAUTIFUL AND ATTRACTIVE IS A DESIRE THAT OCCUPIES A LARGE MAKE l'lEN VlGOROUS AND STRONG THE GLORY. OF MAN.IS HIS PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SEXUAL.STRENGTH, " IN EVERY WOMAN'S HEART, AND IT IS RIGHT THAT SHE SHOULD RE AND ALL PROPER METHODS TO OBTAIN THEIR CONDITION, AS MUCH OF HER HAPPINESS IN LIFE DEPENDS UPON' THEM. FROM MEDICAL STATISTICS WE LEARN THAT SEVEN-TENTHS OF THE WOMEN OF THIS VAST COUNTRY ARE SUFFERERS FROM SOME CHRONIC AILMENT, AND IN MOST. CASES THAT AILMENT IS PECUL!AR TO. HER SEX. WITH THAT FORTITUDE WHICH ONLY THE TRUE WOMAN POSSESSES, SHE UNCOMPLAININGLY SUFFERS ON DAY AFTER DAY—YES, YEAR 'AFTER YEAR— WITH THE FALSE HOPE THAT NATURE WILL SOME TIME REMEDY HER TROUBLE AND RESTORE HER HEALTH. WITH THE GREAT LOVE FOR BEAUTY WHICH EVERY WOMAN DESIRES, SHE, WITH PAINTS, POWDERS AND LOTIdNS, TRIES IN WORK OF DISEASE HAS WROUGHT IN HER ONCE BEAUTIFUL FACE. PLACE CULTIVATE THIS THERE A .BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. ROSY CHEEK AND THE PLUMP AND WELL-ROUNDED FORM., THE WHOLE WORLD IS'A WORLD OF SUNSHINE. DARK, GLOOMY, PRISON-LIKE ABODE. : : IT 18 THE IMPERATIVE DUTY OF EVERY WOMAN, WHEN HER HEALTH WITH-HEALTH AND DEKANGED, TO SEEK A SKILLED SPECIALIST AND AT OI\CE HAVE THE EARTHLY MISSION MAY BE FULFILLED. DR. SWEANY'S METHODS OF. TREAT- AND SPECIAL PRACTICE, AND HE TAKES A GREAT AND JUST PRIDE IN SAYING THAT HIS SUCCESS IN EFFECTING CURES IS BEYOND ALL' COMPARISON. IN FACT, IT IS HIS HONEST OPINION, BASED UPON YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL PRAC- TICE, THAT NINE-TENTHS OF THE DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN CAN BE CURED, THEIR PHYSICAL STRENGTH, MENTAL AND SOCIAL BRIGHTNESS AND THE RUDDY GLOW OF HEALTH AND BEAUTY FULLY RESTORED. Bema e o = VAIN TO COVER UP THE LINES AND DEFECTS WHICH THE CRUEL IS BUT ONE FOUNDATION. FOR BEAUTY, AND THAT IS HEALTH. HEALTH PRODUCES A MIND TEEMING WITH WIT, THE BRIGHT, SPARKLING EYE, THE. WnH'D!sEASE_IT 18 A BECOMES IMPAIRED, WHEN HER GENERATIVE SYSTEM BECOMES WEAKENED 3 TROUBLE RECTIFIED AND HER HEALTH RESTORED, SO THAT HER HIGHEST | ING DISEASES OF WOMEN ARE [HE -RESULT OF YEARS OF BOTH HOSPITAL .| \ Bl s’WEANY, ‘M. D. - ity - DOCTOR SWEANY ‘His mtellectual greatness, his pure, unsulhed character, his strength of will and his high professional attainments not only ‘recommend him to the sick, but place him in.the front rank . among the most advanced physmlans of the age. "In his profes- sion he rlgldly adheres to the pmnmples of advancement and he never yields his' opinions or disregards successful methods of treatment merely through respect to the old .code of medical ethies. His patients. are treated scientifically, always receiving - his personal attention and watchful care until a’ permanent cure - is effected. "The poor of this city who are unable to pay for treatment can have the benefit of his professional services FREE on Friday . afternoons of every week. WRITE YOUR TROUBLES IF I.IVIIIG AWAY FROM THE CITY. Letters answered In English, German, French, ltallan. Spanish, Nor- weglan, Swedish and Danish. ADDRESS * THE MAN WHO.IS ENDOWED . BY NATURE WITH THESE ATTRIBUTES IS “F ' INDEED A.STRONG MAN AND IN'A CONDFI'ION TO MANFULLY BEAR ALL THE BURDENS-OF LIFE AND ENJOY-ALL ITS PLEASURES TO THE'FULLEST EXTEN'. IT IS"AN ABSOLUTE FACT THAT THREE-FOURTHS OF “*HE MEN ARE LOST TO ° ALL THE QUALITIES WHICH MARE THE STRONG, BRAVE AND NOBLE MaN. THEY ARE PREMATURELY QLD .AND DISEASED THROUGH °EXCESSES OR ., UNNATURAL STRAINS, WHICH SAP THE FOUNTAINS OF ‘LIFE, DESTROY THE ° HEALTH AND ‘STRENGTH AND FINALLY RESULT -IN PHYSICAL WRECK. THESEPOOR V!CTIMS,.LOADED WITH DISEASE, REMORSE AND HUMILIL ATION, SILENTLY S-UFFER ON, GOING FROM 'BAD TO WORSE, UNTIL DEATH CLOSES THE SAD SCENE. MUSCULAR STRENGTH AND MANLY POWER *ARE BOTH '’ BASED UPON ‘THE ONE CO\IDITION, AND THAT CONDITION IS HEALTH. WITH HEALTH ALE. THE ESSENTIAL ORGANS OF THE BODY ARE CAPABLE OF PERFORM!NG THEIR FUNCTIONS PROPERLY, PRODUCING MENTAL BRIGHT- .A STRONG MAN. NESS, MANLY VIGOR AND MUSCULAR POWER. DISEASE ROBS THE BLOOD OF ITS KICHNESS, TEARS DOWN THE CONSTITUTION 4ND nss-movs THE MENTAL AS ‘WELL AS THE PHYSICAL MAN. WHAT GREATER BLESSING COULD, COME TO THE SICK MAN, WHOSE HEALTH IS BROKEN DOWN AND HAPPINESS DESTROYED, THAN TO GET CURED, TO BE AGAIN IN POSSESSION OF PERFECT HEALTH AND STRENGTH AND FULLY COMPETENT TO SUCCESSFULLY COPE WITH ALL THE “DUTIES OF LIFE, TO FEEL THAT BOTH HIS PHYSICAL AND MENTAL BEING WERE A RECOGNIZED POWER AMONG HIS FELLOW-MEN. THERE Is BUT ONE WAY FOR THE MAN WHOSE CONSTITUTION IS BROKEN DOWN WITH DISEASE TO OBTAIN PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND NERVOUS STRENGTH;, AND THAT WAY IS TO GET CURED. " THE WAY TO'GET CURED IS TO SECURE THE SERVICES OF SOME- REPUTABLE PHYSICIAN, ONE WHO HAS,THE WELFARE OF HIS PATIENT ALWAYS AT HEART AND WHOSE SYMPATHY FOR SUFFEKING HUMANITY IS SUFFICIENT ‘IO INTEREST HIM TO EXERT EVERY EFFORT TO EFFECT CURES IN ALL CASES HE UNDERTAKES . F. L. SWEANY, M. D., 737 MARKET STREET, SAN FRANGISGO CAL.