i66 C. A. SCHENCK. 



President Taft is outspoken for free lumber; he says "Free 

 lumber we ought to have. By giving our people access to 

 Canadian forests we shall reduce the consumption of our own, 

 which, in the hands of comparatively few owners, now have 

 a value that requires the enlargement of our timber resources." 



President Taft forgets that stumpage prices have risen, in the 

 last ten years, in Prussia, in Austria, in Bavaria, in Sweden, in 

 Russia ; in short everywhere. 



President Taft forgets that the number of forest owners in 

 the U. S. exceeds the million mark. 



President Taft forgets that nothing can be conserved which 

 is not worth conserving. 



President Taft forgets that Canada does not contain but one 

 third of our timber-resources, or 800 billion feet board measure. 



President Taft forgets that no civilized country practises, 

 now a days, conservative forestry with the door to importations 

 wide open. 



A country desirous to establish conservative forestry, a new 

 industry, must protect it. Germany where conservative forestry 

 is well established, protects it nevertheless, by the following 

 custom duties: 



logs, round or roughly hewn, per cubic foot : 0.48 to 0.72 cents ; 



lumber, rough, per 1000 feet b. m.: $2.45 to $3.25. 



The Payne-AIdrich tariff law provides, with implied reference 

 to Canada : That if any country, dependency, province, or other 

 subdivision of government shall impose an export duty or other 

 export charge of any kind whatsoever upon, or any discrimination 

 against, any forest product exported to the United States, or if 

 any country, dependency, province, or other subdivision of go- 

 vernment forbids or restricts the exportation of any forest product 

 to the United States in any way, there shall be imposed upon all 

 of the forest products of such country when imported into 

 the United States the duties prescribed in section three of this 

 Act during the continuance of such export duties, charges, em- 

 bargo, discrimination, or restriction. The duty thus prescribed 

 is 250/0 above the Dingley-rate of tariff. 



With reference to nursery-stock (seedlings of trees) im- 

 ported from Europe, it might be wise to prohibit such im- 

 portation as long as there prevails the grave danger of serious 



