The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-04-22
STRIKING 1T RICH.
NEWSPAPER MAN WHO OPENS
A NEW MINE OF HUMOR.
which Pans Out Some Choice Spec
linens of Englfsh Language,

itors' and Publishers association, Geo.
w. Peck. Esq, has issued a circular in
the form of petition to congress,
which, for once, at least is bound to be
read both IN congress and out of it. 1t
is rich in profusion of western inter-
probation of the English language, aud
can hardly fail to attract attention to
the cause it champions. Our opinion
is that Peck is a man of no ordinary
measure, and his own petition is equal
to bushel of the ordinary kind.
MILWAUKEE, Feb. 20, 1880.
TO Senator'S 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, it
will be cusseds sight more than we
have a right to expect. at the annual
meeting of the Wisconsin Publishers
and Editors 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 torture to
bring the aforesaid whereases and res
clutions to your attention:
WHEREAS, The type founders of the
United States haye formed a combina-
ton for the purpose of imposing such
terms and regulations upon the trade
as they choose, and
WHEREAS, They have been and are
using their organization to the great
disadvantage and injury to their pa
irons, the printers and publishers of
the country, and
WHEREAS, The ordidary and per-
manent diff culties in the way of OBJ
tanning type from foreign countries
are such as to afford ample protection
to American type foundries without
the addition of the safeguard of tar
i1f, therefore
ReSolced, That the just interest of
the printers and publishers of the
United States require that the tariff on
type metal be removed.
Resolued, That the representatives
of Wisconsin in congress are urgently
requested to use their influence and
efforts to secure speedy abolition of
such tariff.
Now you have read the resolutions,
it is snpposable case that you will
feel that your next duty is to throw
name of4Q, 100000 people, be the same
more or less, ask you not to lose your
end, but ruminate, as 1t were, and
think over the highway robbery that
is being practiced upon your unso-
phisticated constituents by the type
founders who are laundering the
newspapers. AS it is now they stand
in the entrance of the editorial sane
tum and take the money that comes in
on subscription, and only allow the
publishers the cord of wood and farm
produce. By the protection your al
legged 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 and say %, hell !!
Every article that is used by news
paper man, except second hand ulster
overcoats and liver, is protected by
a tariff that makes the cold chills run
up his spine.
Another thing that the association
did not pass resolutions about, but
which they probably will at the next
meeting, if there are enough of them
left out of the poor house to meet, be-
fore they meet on that beautiful shore
is the recent action of the manufactur
ers of paper, who are endeavOring t.
screw down the lid of the newspaper
coffin which the type founders are pre-
| pairing for the grave. IL the last thre,
months by their own sweet will, the!
have run the price of paper up al
most a hundred per cent. There i
nothing to prevent them doing it, a
foreign manufactured paper is KEEP
out of the country by tariff. Ever.
article that goes into the construction
of rag paper except bass wood, swea
and water, has q tariff on it. The sods
the asofetida aud blue mass, or what
ever is used to deoderize under shirt
and cast off drawers, so that they Wi
smell good IN newspaper, has a cor
on it in the shape of a tariff, so tina
paper manufacturing three card mont
chaps have an excuse to bleed new
papers to the last drop. What tn
newspapers want, and they believe
is not an unreasonable demand, is tn
removal of the tariff on type, on rag
on paper, and all chemicals used in th
manufacture of paper.
The newspapers of the country bt
leve they are entitled to some consid
Grafton at your hands. They are
many instances the instruments thr
which many of you obtained the pos
, tions you now hold, and they nevt
have got much of anything from yo
except patent office reports and agr
; cultural documents. They have s.
up nights for you, and done dirt
work that may bar them out of all pa
ticipation in the chariot races Of Il
, new Jerusalem, and now they deman
: that you protect them from the ravag'
, of the type founding and paper makil
t grasshoppers, before it is everlasting
, too late.
, Not being one of the id literal
o fellers' SO touchingly alluded to by ii
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