Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-02-27
A Model Memorial.
PLAIN TALK TO CONGRESS OF DESPERATE NEW


PLAIN TALK TO CONGRESS OF A DESPERATE NEWS
PAPER MAN.
About the liveliest memorial ever sent to Con-
gress comes from the Wisconsin Editors and
Publishers Association asking for the remission
Of all tariff duties on chemicals and such other
dutiable articles as enter into the manufacture
of paper In transmitting the resolutions
passed by the aforesaid publishers association
the president, Mr.. George W. Peck, adds In
the memorial: Now that you have read read
the resolution it is a suppoSable case that
YOU will feel that your next duty is to
throw them into the waste basket. In the
name OF 40, O00, 900 people, be the same more or
less, ask you not to lose your cud, out rumi-
robbery that is being practiced upon your un-
sophisticated constituents by the type founders,
who are laundering the newspapers AS lt Is
now they stand in 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 protec-
in the way of tariff, they grapple the throat Of
every newspaper in America and say "Keno," !"
while the newspaper publisher can only return
his chips to the dealer and say SO, hell' = y
article that is used by a newspaper man, X
cept secondhand ulster overcoatS and liver is
protected by a tariff that makes the cold chills
run up his spine.
pass any resolutions about, but which they
probably will at the next meeting, II there are
enough of them left outside of the poor house
shore, is the recent action OF the manufacturers
of paper, who are endeavoring to screw down
the lid of the newspaper coffin which the type
last % three IN months by their own sweet will, they
have run the price of paper up almost hum
dred per cent. There is nothing to prevent
them from doing it, as foreign manufactured
paper is kept out of the country by the tariff
Every article that goes into the construction OF
rag paper. except bass wood, sweat and water,
has tariff on IL. The soda, the aSafBtida and
blue mass, or whatever is used to deodorize un-
dersnirts and cast off drawers, SO that they will
smell good in newspaper, has corn on 1t In
the shape of a tariff, so that the paper
manufacturing three-card-monte chaps have
an excuse to bleed newspapers TO the last drop.
What the newspapers want. and they believe It
is not an unreasonable demand, is the removal
of the tariff on type on rags, on paper and on
all chemicals used in the manufacture of paper.
In tariff on rags [if there is no tariff on rags
you better put one on, unless you remove the
tariff on the rest of the stuff; If tariff Is good
thing you can't have too much OF lt for instance,
rag pickers, and old maids who save up rags to
buy snuff, and tin peddlers who trade tin dipperS
and skimmers occasionally for a flour sack full
of bad smelling rags Are the rag pickerS and
old maids your principal constituents?
The newspapers OF the country believe that
they are entitled to some consideration at your
hands. They are in many instances the fnstru-
ments through which many OF you have attain
ed the positions you now hold, and they never
have got much OF anything from you except pa
tent Office reports and agricultural documents.
They have set up nights for you, and done dirty
work that may bar them out OF all participa-
ton in the chariot races in the golden streets OF
the New Jerusalem, and now they demand that
you protect them from the ravages of the type
founding and paper making grasshoppers, before
1t is eveTlastingly too late.
Not being one of the i'd literary fellers" so
touchingly alluded to by the great Senator
Simon Cameron, this epistle to you Corinthians
may be little raw, and not as polished as II
should be- but it tries to represent the feelings OF
the newspapers men of Wisconsin in language
that the wayfaring man, though diabolical
The newspapers are desperate, and while they
don't want to go on the war path, they feel that
they have been ravished about enough by the
different tribes of benefciaries OF the govern.
ment. If you great men will pass bill to give
us relief you will strike it rich, and don't you
forget it.