The Princeton union., 1880-03-03
THE PAPER QUESTION.
The Views Of the Wisconsin Hunlorist, Geo


the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Ed
1tors and Publishers Association. held
last June at Oshkosh, after the members
had been formally admitted to the in
sane asylum. they passed the following
whereases and resolutions, between free
lunches and picnics, and made me
the humble instrument Of torture to
bring the aforesaid whereases and reso-
lutions to your attention:
WHEREAS, The type foundries of the Uni
ted States have formed combination for the
purpose of imposing such terms and regula-
tions 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 country, and 81, ..
WHEREAS, The ordinary and permanent diff
fculties in the way of obtaining type from for
eign countries are such as to afford ample pro-
lection to American type foundries without
the addition of the safeguard OF tariff, there
fore
Resolved, That the just interests of the prin-
ters and publishers of the United States re-
quire that the tariff on type metal and type be
removed.
Resozved, That the Representatives of Wis
consin in congress are urgently requested to
use their influence and efforts to secure q
speedy abolition of such tariff
Now that you have read the resolutions,
it is supposable case that you will feel
that your next duty is to throw them in
to the waste basket. In the name of
&c, 100000 people, be the same more or
less, I ask you not to lose your cud, but
ruminate, rs it were, and think over the
highway robbery that is being practised
upon your unsophisticated constituents
by the type founders, who arc laundering
the newspapers. AS it is now they stand
in the entrance of the editorial sanctum,
and take the money as it comes in on SUBJ
scription, 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 publisher can only return his
chips to the dealer and say 90, hell!'
Every article that is used by a newspa-
per man, excepting a second hand ulster,
overcoat and liver, is protected by a
tariff that makes 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
of the poor house to meet, before they
meet on the 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
will, they have run the prlce of paper up
almost hundred 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 Eastwood, sweat and
water, has tariff on it. The soda, the
asafntida and blue mass, or whatever is
used to deodorize undershirts and
cast-off drawers, so that they will smell
good IN newspaper, has corner on it
in the shape of tariff, so that the
| paper manufacturing, three-card- monte
| chaps have no excuse to bleed newspapers
to the last drop. What the newspapers
want, and they believe it is not unreason.
able, IS the removal Of the tariff on type
on rags, on paper, and on all chemicals
used in the manufacture OF paper. In 6
tariff on rags, if there is no tariff on rag:
you had better put one on, unless you re-
move the tariff on the rest of the stuff; II
tariff IS good thing you can't have toe
much of It'll for instance, whom do you
protect? Nobody but guttersnipe rag
p1ckers, and old maids, who save up rags
to buy snuff, and tin peddlers who trade
TIN dippers and skimmers occasionally
for flour sack full of bad smelling rags
Are the rag plckers and old maids YOU
principal constituents?
The newspapers of the country believe
that they are entitled to some considera
ton at your hands. They are in man,
instances the instruments through which
many of you have obtained the positions
you now hold, and they have never go
much of anything from you except pat
ent Office reports and agricultural docu
ments. They have set up nights for you
and done dirty work that may bar then
out of all participation in the chario
races in the golden streets OF New Jeru
salem, and now they demand that 20,
protect them from the ravages of tn
type founding and paper making grass
hoppers, before it is everlastingly toe late
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fellers'' so touchingly alluded to by tn
great Senator Simon Cameron, this epistl
to you Corinthians may be little raw
and not so polished as it should be, bu
it tries to represent the feeling of tn
newspaper men of Wisconsin in languag
that the wayfar1ng man, though diabo
lical idiot can understand, and it mean
business. The newspapers are desperate
and, while they don't want to 60 on tn
war-path, they feel that they have bee
ravished about enough by the differen
tribes of benefciaries of the government
If you great men will pass bill to Civ
US reliet, you will strike it rch, an
don't you forget it. Yours about ma
enough,
GEO. w. PECK,
Pres. Wis. Editors and Publishers ASST
Dead in the Ruins.