Following these men who mark out the “haulways,” come a far more numerous body of men with axes, saws, hooks, oxen, mules and other equipment, including cooks, “grub” and other things necessary to feed and shelter them. These, also, are factors--elemental or primal factors--in the production of wood-pulp from which most of our white paper is made. Numerically they, in the aggregate, number thousands. Most certainly they cannot be counted among the “few magazine publishers” referred to by Mr. Hitchcock. With equal certainty it can be said that _each_ of these thousands would be materially affected in his industrial occupation by any legislation or other influence which caused a shrinkage in the demand for wood-pulp. In the fall and winter of the year (sometimes in other seasons as well), an army of men--not thousands, but tens of thousands in number--swarm into the pulp wood forests. They are axemen, “fiddlers” (cross-cut sawyers,) foremen, gang foremen, ox drivers, mule drivers, horse drivers. Here also is again found the cook, the “pot cleaner,” the “grub slinger” and other servers of subsistence to the “timber jackies” of the various camps. Any material reduction in the consumption of wood-pulp would affect them, would it not? None of them publish magazines, do they? This brings us down to the pulp mill. Of course each mill has a hundred or more men employed getting its wood floated down the rivers or streams during the spring floods, or “freshets,” if their transportation is by water. They are log “berlers”, “jam” breakers, shore “canters,” “boomers,” etc. If their working stock comes by rail, there are “loaders,” “unloaders,” “yarders,” etc. Then come in the thousands of mill men, engaged on the work of reducing the wood to pulp. If the pulp mill has not a paper mill in immediate connection, as often happens, then the railroad is immediately interested in the reduced tonnage haul, and likewise every man who works for the railroad becomes interested industrially. Even a triple-expansion brained man could not figure these thousands of industrial workers into the ranks of those “few magazine publishers” whom Mr. Hitchcock, it is asserted, _repeatedly_ asserted, would alone be affected by his urgently urged amendment. Next, we reach the paper mill. How many thousands of men are employed by them, I do not know. Of the many other thousands--wives and children who are dependent upon those workers for clothing, shelter and subsistence--I cannot make even a worthy guess. The reader can make as dependable an estimate as I, probably a more dependable one. But readers will unitedly agree that all these thousands of workmen, wives and children would be affected by _any_ reduction in the consumption of wood-pulp paper. All readers will also agree that no one of these is a magazine publisher.