Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

chairman of the committee on paper of the American Newspaper Publishers’ association, says: "The publishers had asked for free print paper. The select committee yf the house had recommended $2 per for>. The senate raised the rate to $4 per ton, and the conferees had substantially agreed on a compromise rate of $3 per ton when President Taft announced to congressional callers on or about July 24 that a $4 rate was necessary for the application of the protection principle to print paper. “The president made this announcement without that full and impartial ascertainment of cost to which the consumers were entitled, and in disregard of numerous and voluntary assurances that he had given In favor of the lower rate.”