THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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W. A. RUST, Presideot. 



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F. R. QILCHRIST, VlCe-Prest. 



W. E. SMITH, Sec'y and Treas. 



Three States Lumber Go. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



COTTONWOOD AND GUM 



■WIIL.I_S: 



MISSOURI ARKANSAS TENNESSEE. 



OFFICE AND YARDS: CAIRO, ILLINOIS. 



GET OUR PRICES. TRY OUR LUMBER. WE SHIP ROUGH, DRESSED, RESAWED. 



COTTON WOOD-GUM 



union as a protection against the tyrannny 

 of capital, and yet what employer ever 

 undertook to piclcet another shop and use 

 force to prevent his men from going there 

 to work when they became dissatisfied 

 with his place? Such would have been but 

 a dose of the medicine that trade unions 

 have given employers, and they have given 

 so much of it that it is time to call a halt. 

 — Barrel and Box. 



UNIFORM INSPECTION. 



The condurtor of this department began 

 a campaign for the uniform inspection of 

 hardwood lumber somethiug like twelve 

 years ago, when he assumed the editorship 

 0I. Hardwood, under the management of 

 Mr. A. II. Hitchcock, of Chicago, who 

 might almost be said to have been the first 

 apostle of the doctrine. 



Hardwood as a lumber paper had its 

 day, flourished for a number of years, ran 

 its course, and became merged in a jour- 

 nal still running as the organ of the hard- 

 wood trade, and successful, too, and which 

 is doing an excellent work. The journal 

 and the Chicago Hardwood Association 

 look up the work and practically carried 

 it on to a successful issue, so that today, 

 so far as the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association is concerned, uniform inspec- 

 tion is an accomplished fact, certainly in 

 theory, if not always in practice. 



Certain Chicago dealers, who are still 

 ccmpartively youug men, with the aid of 

 some dealers from the Northwest and 

 some no less helpful ones from the South, 

 fought the battle for uniform inspection 

 and won against a good deal of factious 

 opposition. 



Uniform inspection has proved itself 

 such a really good thing and so eminently 

 practical that it is really surprising that 

 there should be auy organized opposition 

 to it, but such seems to be the fact. Cer- 

 tain parties have opposed it from the start, 

 whether because they did not originate it, 

 or because they did not believe in it, or 

 because they thought if was not to their 

 interests, matters not. But they certainly 

 opposed it and it looks very much as 

 though a certain organization, known as 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States, had been made a cat's 

 paw of by those parties, if not actually 

 conceived and organized for the very pur- 

 pose of interfering with the practical suc- 

 cess of uniform inspection. 



"Dixie" does not apprehend that the 

 members of the Hardwood JIanufacturers' 

 Association of the United States as a 

 body entertain any feelings inimical to 

 the other association or to the real princi- 

 ple of imiform inspection, but their course 

 tends that way and is really a hindrance 

 to its complete and entire success. 



Each body has its set of rules. The 

 National Association was first in the field 

 with its set of rules, which were agreed to 

 after long discussion and a good many al- 

 terations and amendments, with a large 

 proportion of the members of the Manu- 



