The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-03-25
NUMBER 81.
A MODEL MEMORIAL.


raasfE Newspaper MAN. aa4 a1
About the livelie memorial ever sent
to Congress comes from the Wisconsin
Editors and Publishers Association
asking for the remission of all tariff du-
ties on chemicals and such other duti-
able articles as enter into the manufac-
ture of paper. In transmitting the
resolutions passed by the aforesaid pub
fishers association, the President, Mr..
George w. Peck, adds in the memorial:
tions it is a supposable case that you
theminto the waste-basket. In the name
of forty million people, be the same more
or less, ask you not to lose your cud,
but ruminate, as it were, and think over
the highway robbery that is being prac-
ticed upon your unsophisticated con-
stituents by the type founders, who are
foundering the newspapers. As it is
now they stand in the entrance of the
editoria. sanctum and take the money
that comes in on subscription, ard 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
'KenoP while the newspaper publisher
can only return his chips to the dealer
aud say Oh, helln Every article that
is used by a newspaper man, except
secondhand ulster overcoats and liver,
is protected by tariff that makes the
cold chills run up his spine.
"Another thing that the association
did not pass any resolutions about, but
which Jney probably will at the next
meeting, if there are enough Of them
left out of the poor-house to meet again
before they meet on the beautiful shore,
is the recent action of the manufacture
ers of paper, who are endeavoring 10
screw down the lid of the newspaper
coffin which the Jype-founders are pre-
pairing for the grave. In the last three
months, by their own sweet will, they
have run up the price of paper ain -ost a
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 thing that
goes into the construction of rag paper,
except Eastwood, sweat and water, has a
tariff on it. The soda, the assaietida
and blue mass, or whatever is used to
so that they will smell good in news
paper, has corn on it 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 de-
mand, 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 had better put one on,
unless you remove the tariff; if tariff
is good thing you can't have too much
of it |, for instance, whom do you pro-
tect? Nobody but guttersn!pe rag
i pickers, and old maids who save up rags
to buy snuff, and tin-peddiers who trade
tin dippers and skimmers occasionally
for tiour-sack full of bad smelling
rags. Are the rag-pickers and old
maids your principal constituents?
"The newspapers of the country be-
lieve that they are enli led to some con
sideration at your hands. They are in
many instances the instruments through
which many of you have attained the
positions you now hold, and they neve,
have got much of anything from yor
except Patent Office reports and ag i,ul
tural documents. They have sat uI
nights for you, and done dirty worl
that may bar them out of all participa
ton in the chariot races in the COLDER
streets of the New Jerusalem, and nov
they demand that you protect then
from the ravages of the type-foundin.
aad paper-makiog grasshoppers, before
it is everlastit gly too late.
"Not being one of the 'd-d literar!
| fellers' so touchingly alluded to b.
the great Senator Simon Cameron, thu
epistle to you Corinthians may be ;
little raw, and not as polished as i
should be, but it tries to represent tn
feelings of the newspaper men of Wlscon
sin in language that the wayiaripg man
though diabolicsl idiot, can uuder
stand, and it means busin IS. Tn
newspapers are desperate, and whi
they don't want to go on the war-path
they feel that have b en- ravished abou
enough by the different tribes of bene
fciarles of the government. If yol
great men win pass a bill to give us re
lief, you will strike it rich and dom
you forget it." @