The Northern Pacific farmer., 1880-03-11

permanent
culties in the way of obtaining type from foreign
countries are such as to afford ample protection
to American type foundries without the addition
OF the safeguard of tariff, therefore
Res0lved, That the just interests of the print
ers and publishers of the United States require
that the tariff on type metal and type be removed.
.Resolved That the representatives of Wiscon-
sin in congress are earnestly requested to use
their influence and efforts to secure speedy abo-
lition of such tariff
Now that you have read the resolu-
tions, it is a supposable case that you
will feel that your next duty is to throw
them in the waste basket. In the name
of &c, ,OOO, 900 people, be the same more
or less, l ask you not to lose your cud,
but ruminate, as itwere, and think over
the highway robbery that is being prac-
ticed upon your unsophisticated con-
stituents by the type founders, who are
tounc ering the newspapers. As it 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 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 pnb-
Usher can only return his chips to the
dealer and say 20, hell ~ Every arti-
Gle that is used by newspaper man,
excepting 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 resolution 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 that beautiful
shore, is the recent action of the manu-
facturers of paper, who are endeavoring
to screw down the lid of the newspaper
coffin which the type founders are pre-
pairing for the grave. In the last three
months by their own sweet will, they
have run the price of paper up almost
q hundred per cent. There ia nothing
to prevent them from doing it, as for
eign manufactured paper is kept out of
the country by the tariff. Every article
that goes into the construction of rag
paper, except bass wood, sweat and wa
ter, has tariff on it. The soda, the
asafndida and blue mass, or whatever
is used to deodorize undershirts and
cast off drawers, so that they will smell
good in q newspaper, has corn on it
in the shape of a tariff, so that the pa
per manufacturing three-card-monte
chaps have an excuse to bleed newspa-
pers to the last drop. What the news
papers want, and they believe it is not
an unreasonable demand, is the remov-
al Of the tariff on type, on rags, on pa
per, and on all chemicals used in the
manufacture Of paper. In tariff on
rags fif there is no tariff on rags you
had better put one on, unless you re-
move the tariff on the rest of the stuff:
if a tariff is a good thing you can't have
too much of it], for instance, whom do
you protect? Nobody but guttersnipe
rag pickers and old maids, who save up
rags to buy snuff, and tin peddlers who
trade tin dippers and skimmers occa-
sionally for -four sack full of bad
smelling rags. Are the rag pickers and
old maids your principal constituents?
The newspapers of the coantry believe
that they are entitled to some consider
alton 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 pat
ent Office reports and agricultural docu-
ments. They have set up nights for
you, and done dirty work that may bar
them out 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 ravages
of the type founding and paper making
grasshoppers, before it is everlastingly
too lat.
Not being one of the I'D literary
fellers" 80 touchingly alluded to
by the great Senator Simon
Cameron, this epistle to you Corin-
thians may be little raw, and not as
polished as it should be, but it tries to
represent the feelings of the newspaper
men of Wisconsin in language that the
wayfaring man, though diabolical i'd
lot, can understand, and it means busi-
ness. The newspapers are desperate,
and while they don't want to 20 on the
war path, they feel that they have been
ravished about enough by the different
tribes of beneficlaries of the govern
ment. If you great men will pass bill
to give us relief, you will strike it rich,
and don't you forget it. @
Yours about mad enough,
Geo. w. Peck,
Pres. Wis. Editors and Pab's Assn.
GEN. ScHENK is recovering. Instead
of passing in his checks he has called for
another stack.