June 25, lUlf 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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broutjht before the house: F. S. riiderliill, PhiliuU'lpIiia, Pa.; 

 Gardiner I. Jones, Boston, Mass.; II. V. Humphrey, Appleton, Wis.; 

 J. L. Brownlee, Detroit, Mich.; GoorKC ('. Khemonn, Memphis, Tcnn. 

 After tho secretary-treasurer had announced the arrangements 

 for the banquet, the convention went 

 in recess for the noon liour. 



AFTERNOON SESSION 



When the meeting was called to or- 

 der at 2 'clock, Hon. James W. Funl- 

 ney, member of Congress from Michi- 

 gan, addressed the convention in part 

 as follows: 



There are many gront ineu In ConRrcss, 

 but we huvc some men who are out of 

 place there. This morning I picked up 

 from a chair here a copy of a bill, and I 

 llstenetl to the remarks of your presi- 

 dent on this hill, which provides that no 

 lumber shiill he shlppun from one stiilc to 

 another on which more than eight hours 

 for a day's work has been put. That bill 

 was Introduced for no other purpose than 

 to get the votes of the I. W, W., to got 

 the votes of the rabble. I say, shame on a 

 man that will cast bis vote In Congress for 

 no other purpose than to get the votes of 

 the people In his district to return him to 

 Congress. Let me do credit to the man 

 whose name Is on that bill, however. He 

 Is a high riass gentleman, and did not 

 Introduce the bill for the purpose of see 

 ing It enacti'd Into law. lie was meeting 

 the devil with lire. Mr. McArthur, whose 

 name Is appende<l to the bill, is one of the 

 high class men In Congress. 



FIfty-flve per cent of the saw log timber 

 of tlic United States today Is found In Cullfornla, Oregon, Washington, 

 Idaho and Montana, five western states. I have had a great deal of c-sperl- 

 ence In the lumber woods on the Pnclflc Coast. The timber of the Pacific 

 Coast Is beyond the comprehension of the eastern man who never saw the 

 western timber. An army officer appeared before a conimmlttec of the Sen- 

 ate three or four weeks ago and made the statement that the reason why 

 we had no more fighting airplanes made In this country and sent abroad 

 was because of the lack of spruce lumber. The gentlemen was In error. A 

 Washington lumberman followed Mm and said that the states of Oregon and 

 Washington had manufactured and sold to the Federal government and had 

 received their pay for enough spruce lumber to make 60,000 fighting air- 

 planes, and we only had one made and sent abroad. I know that state- 

 ment Is correct. I am not much of a lumbermen, but I have been In the 

 business all my life. 



The people of this country, In every line of Industry, are doing every- 

 thing In their power to aid this government In carrying on this great war. 

 Sixty days ago I felt greatly alarmed obout the success of this war against 

 liernuiny. We are hulhllng ships as rapidly as It Is possible, and wo are 

 sending them abroad In great numbers. Much criticism may come to the 

 govi'rnnient of the United States for mis- 

 takes, but this Is a great undertaking. 

 Money will be spent lavishly : money will 

 be wasted In many ways. That must be 

 overlooked, because it Is not possible to 

 manage this great war In an efficient and 

 economleol manner such as you are able 

 to manage your business. There arc too 

 many superintendents ; there arc too many 

 avenues for loss of money. We were 

 found without e(|ulpment when this war 

 came upon us. 



It does not require much patriotism for 

 you and me to bid good bye to our neigh- 

 bors' boys to go to the war, hut I tell 

 ynu It requires patriotism to bl^ your own 

 hoy good bye and say, "Go, my son, and 

 light for your country." 



Tlie railroads of this country have not 

 licen fairly treated by recently passed leg- 

 islation. In my opinion. The railroads of 

 the country, before adverse legislation be- 

 gan, encroached upon the rights of the 

 people In many Instances, but legislation 

 began In the various states and In the na- 

 tional halls of Congress, and the pendulum 

 has swung too far. Your business today 

 woulil be valueless without the aid of the 

 railroads to market the product of your 

 labor and your factories. Less than ninety 

 years ago we had but twenty-three miles 

 of railroad in the United States, and today 

 we have 200,000 miles of main line, and In 

 all 300,000 miles of main line and side 

 tracks. 

 During the last few years I have given a great deal of study to the 

 question of the comparative cost of railroad operation and freight rotes, 

 and I am unalterably opposed to government ownership of railroads. No 

 country has tried government ownership of railroads that has not made 

 a failure of It, not excluding tiermany. The railroads of Great Britain 

 for the last year before the war paid an average wage scale to employes 

 of $7 a week, and her freight rate was 2.23 cents per ton per mile. Her 

 railroad construction Is the most expensive In the world, because all her 

 crossings are overhead crossings. Germany's freight rate was 1.37 cents 

 per ton mile and her wage scale S7.77 per week. I speak of the year before 

 the war, when conditions were normal. France's freight rate was 1.31 

 cents per ton mile and her wage scale ?4.01 per week. Austria wos 1.51 

 per ton mile and her wage scale ?6.11. Hungary, 1.34; wage scale, $5.58 

 per week. J.ipan, .S5 cents per ton mile; wage scale, $2.17 per week. 



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