The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1880-03-12
A MODEL MEMORIAL.
PLAIN TALK TO COSGREss OF A DESPERATE
NEWSPAPER Man.

PLAIN TALK TO CONGRESS OF A DESPERATE
NEWSPAPER NAN.
About the liveliest memorial ever sent 70
/ Congress comes from the Wisconsin Editors
and Publishers Association asking for the
remission Of all tariff Cuties on chemicals
and such other dutiable articles as enter into
the manufacture Of paper. In transmitting
the resolution passed by the aforesaid Pub
fishers Association the President, Mr.. George
W. Peck, adds in the memorial: "Now that
you have read the resolutions, it is a sup
posable case that You viii feel that your next
duty is to throw them iuto the waste basket
In the'name Of 40, coo, 600 people, be the same
more or less, I ask you not to lose your cue,
but ruminate as it were, and think over the
highway robbery that is being practiced
upon your unsOphisticated constituents by
the type founders, who are foundering tho
newspapers. As il 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-wOcd
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 publisher can only re-
turn his chips to the dealer and say %, hellH
Every article that is used ay a newspaper
man, except second hand ulster .overcoats
and liver pads IS protected 10y 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 viii at she next meeting. If
there are enough of them left outside Of the
poor house to meet again before they meet
on that beautiful 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 founders
. are preparing for the grave. In the last
three months, by their own sweet viii, they
have run the price of paper up almost
hundred per cent. There is nothing to pre-
vent them from doing it, as foreign manu-
/ featured paper Is kept ont of the country by
the tariff. Every article that goes into the
construction of rag paper, except bass wood,
sweat and water, has a tariff Oh it. The
! soda, the asafRtida and blue mass. or what
ever is used to deodorize uudershirts and
. cast Cn drawers, so that they viii smell good
. in newspaper, has a corn on it in the shape
Of a tariff, so that the paper manufacturing
. three-card-mCCte chaps have an excuse to
bleed newspapers to the last drop. What the
newspaper men 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 n tariff on rags Cif there is no tar
if on rags you had better put one on, unless
you remove the tariff on the rest Of the stuff;
if tariff is a good thing you can't have too
much Of it, Cor instance, whom do You pro
Nr7r brr
and old maids who save upraCs to buy snuff,
and tin peddlers who trade tin dippers and
skimmers occasionally for a -four 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 instruments through which many Of you
have attained the positions you now hold,
and they never have got much OF anything
from you except patent Office reports and
. I agricultural documents. They have set up
nights for you and done dirty work that NAV
bar them ont OF all participation in the
chariot races in the golden streets Of the
New Jerusalem, and now they demand that
( you protect them from the ravaEes Of the
e type founding and paper making grasshop.
pers, before it is everlastingly too late
Not being one Of the 'd-d literary feuers
so touchingly alluded to by the great Senator
: Simon Cameron, this epistle 20 you C0Iin-
p thians may he little raw, and not as polish.
70 ed as It should be, but it tries to represent
the feelings Of the newspaper men Of Wis
; consin in language that the wayfaring man
{ though diab0lical idiot, can understand
4 and 1t means business The newspapers ar,
desperate, and while they don't want to &,
e on the war path, they feel that they havt
been rayished about enough by the 6ifTeren
+ tribes Of benefciaries Of the government
= II You great men win pass bill to give u
relief, you will strike it rich, and don't yol
l. forget it,