Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — Exporting Paper. [ARTICLE]

Exporting Paper.

A trade paper announces that the Hudson Paver Paper and Pulp Company, at Corinth, N. Y., have an order from Meloourae, Australia, for 4,000 tons of printing paper, and are now shipping 100 tons per month. They are also sending large quantities of paper to New Zealand. Last year we exported paper and manufactures of paper to the value of about £1,200,000, and the figures for this year will be somewhat greator. Notwithstanding the ability of our paper manufacturers' to compete in the world’s markets, McKinley did not lower the paper duties at a single point. The old duties on common printing paper, sized or unsized, were retained, but on all tissue and copyiug papers the duties wero raised enormously. The old duties wero 20 and 25 per cent.; the McKinley duties areß cents a pound and 15 percent., equal to a single ad va orem duty of 90 per cent. Photographers’ paper was raised from 25 per cent, to 35, and envelopes from 25 to 30. Our paper makers are ab’o to lio’d their own in unprotecto 1 markets; where is the need for more protection in the home market? The McKinleyites liavo an itching to raise duties and can never be satisfied till they aro thus occupied.