Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1880-03-04
THE PAPER QUESTION.
The Views Of the Wisconsin Humorist. Geo.
w pank

Congress from Wisconsin:
OFFICE PRESIDENT WISCONSIN EDIToRs'
AND PUBLISHERS Assn, MILWAUKEE
FEB. 90, 80.
To Senators and members of Congress-;
1t becomes my painful official duty to
address you few lines, and if you pay
attention and allow the ideas herein adj
vanced to gently enter your several sys-
TENS without the aid of surgical opera
ton or shotgun, it will be cussed sight
more than we have Alright to expect. At
the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Ed
ltors 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-
buttons 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
| WHEREAS, The ordinary and permanent diff
ficulties 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-
tiers and publishers of the United States re-
quire that the tariff on type metal and type be
| removed.
RESOLVED, That the Representatives of Wis
consin in congress are urgently requested to
use their influence and efforts to secure a
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
100000 people, be the same more OF
less, ask you not to lose your cud, but
ruminate, as 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 sub,
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 il
: America, and say "Keno," while the
newspaper publisher can only return bis
chips to the dealer and say so, hellr
Every article that is used by newspa
per man, excepting second hand ulster
OvercOat and liver, is protected by {
tariff that makes cold chills run up his
spine.
Another thing that the ASSOCIATION die
not pass any resolutions about, butwhicl
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 re cen
action of the manufacturers of paper, wht
are endeavoring to screw down the lid o
the newspaper coffin which the type
founders are preparing for the grave. IL
the last three months, by their own swee
will, they have run the price of paper VI
almost hundred per cent. There /
nothing to prevent them from doing it
as foreign manufactured paper is KEEP
out of the country by the tariff. Ever,
article that goes into the construction o
rag paper, except Eastwood, sweat ant
water, has tariff on it. The soda, tn
asaf9tida and blue mass, or whatever i
used to deodorize undershirts ant
cast-off drawers, so that they will smell
good In newspaper, has corner on j
in the shape of a tariff, so that tn
paper three cardmont
chaps have no excuse to bleed newspaper
to the last drop. What the newspaper!
| xxyor& nd fhory hoIiaro ~ 10
able, Is the removal Of the tariff on type
on rags, OH paper, and on all chemical
used in the manufacture OF paper. In
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; 1
tariff is good thing yoa can't have tot
much of It'll for instance, whom do you
protect? Nobody but guttersnipe rag
plckers, and old maids, who save up rag
to buy snuff, and tin peddlers who trade
TIN clippers and skimmers OCCASIONAL,
for -four sack full of bad smelling rags
Are the rag p1ckers 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 many
| AuSGduCCS LuC 1uSIL uluChtS tLlIOuSH WulCL
many of you have obtained the positions
you now hold, anu 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 chariot
races in the golden streets of New Jeru
salem, and now they demand that yor
protect them from the ravages of the
type founding and paper making grass
hoppers, before it is everlastingly toe late
Not being one of the odd literary
fellers' SO touchingly alluded to by the
great Senator Simon Cameron, this epistlc
to you Corinthians may be little raw
and not so polished as it should be, but
it tries to represent the feeling of the
newspaper men of Wisconsin In language
that the wayfarlng man, though diabo
lical idiot can understand, and it means
business. The newspapers are desperate
and, while they don't want to 60 on tho
war-path, they feel that they have beer
ravished about enough by the different
tribes of benefciaries of the government
Ifyou great men will pass bill to give
us reliet, you will strike it rich, anG
don't you forget it. Yours about mad
enough,
GEO. w. PECK,
Pres. Wis. Editors and Publishers Assn
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