Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05
PIRACY UPON PRINTERS.
combinations of Type-FOunders ana
Paper-makers-oOnRress BeAoughI
to make These Combinations "sinR
smaIIer,'-A unique memOrAal'

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George W. Peck, of the Milwaukee
Sun, and president Of the Wisconsin
Editors and Publishers association,
memorializes congress on the sub
iect of the paper-makers' steal astol-
lows:
"OFF1cE OF PRESIDENT OF WIS.
coNsIN EDIToRs' AND PUBLIsHERs
ASSOCIATION MILWAUKEE,, Feb. 70,
lssO.-To SENATORS AND MEMBERS
OF CONGRESS: 1t becomes my pain
fal official duty to address you a 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 opera
ton or a shot gun, it will be q cussed
sight more than we have a right to
expect. At the annual meeting OF
the Wisconsin Editors and publish
ers' association, held last June at
Oshkosh, after the members had
been formally admitted TO the insane
asylum, they passed the following
whereases and resolutions, between
free lunches and picnics and made
me the humble instrument OF fortune
to bring the aforesaid whereases and
resolutions to your attention;
"WHEREAs, The type foundries
of the United States have formed q
combination for the purpose OF i'm
posing 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 pub
fishers of the county; and, a
"Whereas, The ordinary and per
manent difficulties in the way of OBJ
tanning type from foreign countries
are such as to afford ample protect
ion TO American type foundries with
out the addition of the safeguard Of
a tariff; therefore,
ResoIued, That the just interests
of the printers and publishers of tht
United States require that the tarif
on type metal and type be removed
"ResOlUed, That the representa-
tives of Wisconsin in congress arr
urgently requested to use their in
fluenoe and efforts 10 secure speed.
abolition of such tariff.
"Now that you have read the res
olutions, it is a supposable case tina
YOU will feel that your next duty J
to throw them into the waste basket
In the name of forty million people
be the same more or less, ] ask yoI
not to lose your oud, but reminate
as il were, and think over the high
way robbery that is being practices
upon your unsophisticAted constitu
ent by the type founders, who ar
laundering the newspapers. As
is now they stand in the entrance o
the editorial sanctum and take tn
money that comes in on subscription
and only allow the publishers tn
cord wood and farm produce. B,
the protection your alleged honora
BILE body affords them in the way o
tariff, they grapple the throat 0
every newspaper in America, anC
say "Kenio," while the newspape
publisher can only return bis chip
TO the dealer and say 80, hell
Every article that is used by news
paper man, except secondhand al
ster overcoats and liver, is proteote'
by the tariff that makes the col,
chills run up his spine.
Another thing that the assooia
ton did not pass any resoiutio
about, but which they probably vii
at the next meeting, If there ar
enough Of them left outside of tn
poor house TO meet, before the
meet on that beautiful shore, is th
recent action of the manufacturer
of paper, who are endeavoring I
screw down the lid Of the newspapt
coffin which the typefounders al
preparing for the grave. In th
last three mouths, by their own swe'
will, they have run the price (
paperup elmost 100 per cent. The
Is nothing ~ prevent them from d
ing II, as foreign manutacture
paper is kept ont Of the country !
The tariiE Every article that go
into tIle eOaistFaction Of rag pape