Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1883 — I HAVE MENTIONED THE TIMBEB TAX. [ARTICLE]

I HAVE MENTIONED THE TIMBEB TAX.

Let ub look at that a moment. Test the sources of our timber supply are rapidly diminishing ii notorious. It is also a well-known fact that the pine lands.of Wisconsin and Michigan have passed into the hands of a Jfew men who control the lumber market of the West 4ffd Northwest* Canadians would gladly send lumber to our markets, which wo'd* cheapen buildiug material and retard the destruction of our own forests. Senators and Congressmen from the prairie States begged Congress to put lumber on the tree list, and in one branch, the Senate, I believe, that proposition carried- But your potent Conference Committee, at the bidding of Mr. Conger, put a tax of 20 percent, ou sawed timber, fit per 1,000 ou boards, 10 per cent, on staves, 20 per cent ou pickets and palings, $2 per I,o* >0 ou clapboards, and 95 cents per 1,000 on shingles, and rou voted for it. This Umber tax folly will make iroubie for our. party in the prairie Stab s. The settler on the prairie has