Lumber Interests Affected

Free-Trade in Iumber works infinite mischief to our interests. For example, Marine City, Mich., is i salt manufacturing town. A stave factory eiuploying L25 men has been one of the industries of the town. Now the free staves coming in from Ganada have been laid down in that town at prices below tliose of the native product, and the 125 men are out of work. In other large stave towns the Canadian staves, cheaper because of the lower Canadian wages, are forcing the American stave milis either to ent down the wages of their employees so that they can meet the Canadian competition, or to close their milis entirely, throw the employees out of work and surrender the market to the Canadian producers. In the face of thousands of such cases of direct ruin wrought by the Sugar-AVhisky-Trust-Tariff inonstrosity, there are fanatics and fools, dolts and imbéciles in this country who prate about "the inestimable benefits of ïariff Refawm to the laboring men of the United States."- The Lumber World, December, 1894.