The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-06
A HUMOROUS PETITION,

i ington was fairly challenged, If not
shocked, on the 2sth ult., by the presen-
tation and reading. of the Wisconsin
Editors and Publishers Association,
asking for the remission of the unjust
and inequitable tariff duties on chemi-
Gals and such other dutiable articles as
enter in on the manufacture of paper,
aud also the repeal of the duty on type.
The memorial was as follows:
MILWAUKEE, February 20, 1880.
To the Senators and Members Of Con-
gress
1t becomes my painful official duty to
address you few lines, and If you will
pay attention and allow the ideas herein
advanced to gently enter your several
systems without the aid of surgical
operation or a shot gun, 1t will be cuss-
ed sight more than we have a right to
expect. At the annual meeting of the
Wisconsin Editors and publishers AS
ISOLATION, held last June at Oshkosh,
after the members had been formally ad-
mitted to the Insane Asylum, they pass
ed the following whereasas and resolu-
tions, between free lunches and picnics,
and made me the humble instrument of
torture to bring the aforesaid whereasas
and resolutions to your attention.
WHEREAS, The type foundries of the
United States have formed a combina-
ton for the purpose of imposing such
terms and regulations as they choose
upon trade and
WHEREAS, They have been and are
using their organization to the great
disadvantage and injury of their patrons
the printers and publishers of the coun-
try and
WHEREAS, The ordinary and perma-
nent difficulties in the way of obtaining
type from foreign countries are such as
to afford ample protection to American
type foundries without the addition of
the safeguard of tariff therefore
Resolved, That the just of the
printers and publishers of the United
States require that the tariff on type
metal and type be removed.
Resolved, That the Representatives of
Wisconsin in Congress are urgently re-
quested to use their influence and eff
forts to secure speedy abolition of such
tariff.
Now that you have read the resolu-
uohs It il b supposaple case that you
will feel that your next duty is to throw
them into the waste basket. In the
name of 100000 people, be the same
more or less, ask you not to loose your
cud, but ruminate, as 1t were, and think
over the highway robbery that is being
practiced upon your unsophisticated
constituents by the tpye founders, who
are laundering the newspapers. AS it is
now they stand at the entrance of the
editorial sanctum and take the money
that comes in on subscription, and only
allow the publisher the cord wood and
farm produce. BY the protection your
alleged honorable body affords them, in
the way of tariff they grapple the throat
of every newspaper in America, and
say Keno" while the newspaper pub
Usher can only return his chips to the
dealer and say 90, hell !" Every arti-
Gle that is used by the newspaper man,
excepting second hand ulster overcoats
and liver, is protected by tariff that
makes the cold chills run up his spine.
Another thing that the association
did not pass any resolutions about, but
which they probably will at the next
meeting, if there are enough of them
left outside the poorhouse to meet, before
they meet on that beautiful shore, is the
recent action of the manufactures of
paper, who are endeavoring to screw
down the lid of the newspaper coffin
which the type founders are preparing
for the grave. In the last three months
by their own sweet will, they have run
the price of paper up almost hundred
per cent. There is nothing to prevent
them from doing 1t, as foreign manufac-
tured paper is kept out of the country
by the tariff. Every article that goes
into the construction of rag paper, ex-
cept Eastwood, sweat and water, has a
tariff on it. The soda, the asafetida
and blue mass, or whatever is used, has
q corn on ii in the shape of a tariff, so