The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-03-04
FUN In CONGRESS-.
A WISCONSIN EDITOR O. PUBLISH
Err BULL-DOZING THE HOUSE.
Telling q Good Many Plain Truths in Blunt
Shape.

Washington February 28.-The dignity Of Con.
gresS, the Lower House at all events got severe
shock yesterday, through the memorial Of the
Wisconsin Editorial and publishers Association
asking for the remission Of all tariff duties on
chemical and such other dutiable articles az en-
ter into the manufacture Of paper, and also the
repeal Of the duty on type. The memorial was
proposed by Geo. W, Peck, Esq, President Of the
Wisconsin Publishers Association, and Is as fol-
lows; 'ft
Milwaukee, February 20, 1880.
To ne Senators and Members Of Congress:
It 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 a
surgical operation or shot gun, 1t will be cuss
ed sight more than we have right to expect. At
the annual meeting Of the Wisconsin Editors and
Publishers Association, held last June at Osh
kosh, after the members had been formally ad
mitted to the Insane Asylum, they passed the fol.
lowing whereases and resolutions, between free
lunches and piCnieS, and made me the humble
instrument Of torture to bring the aforesaid
whereases and resolutions to your attention:
Whereas, TlN :ype foundries Of the United
States have formed combination for the pur'
pose OF imposing such terms and regulations Ra
they choose upon trade; and
Whereas They have been and are using their
Organization 10 the great disadvantage and injury
Of their patrons the printers and publishers Of
the country; and
WheredS The ordinary and permanent difficult
tiea 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 o tariff; therefore
Resolved That the just interests of the printers
and publishers of the United States require that
the tariff on type metal and type be removed.
RESOLVED, That the Representatives of Wigcon.
sin In Congress are urgently requested to use
their influence and efforts TO secure speedy abo-
lition Of such tariff.
Now that you have read the resolutions, II is q
supposable case that you will feel that your next
duty is to throw them into the waste basket In
the name Of 100000 people, be the same more
or less, ask You not to lose your cud but rumip-
ate, as It were, and think over the highway rob.
berry that Ia being practiced upon your unsophis.
ticated constituents by the type founders, who are
laundering the newspapers. As 1t is now they
stand at the entrance Of the editorial sanctum
and take the money that comes In on subscrlp.
ton, and only allow the publisher the cord wood
and farm produce. By the protection your al.
tariff, they grapple the throat Of every neWsps.
per in America, and say "Keno," while the news.
paper publisher can only return his chips to the
dealer and say o, hell r. Every article that ia
used by the newspaper man, excepting second
hand ulster overcoats and liver, is protected by
tariff that makes the cold ohills run up his spine
Another thing that the association did not pass
any resolutions about but which they probably
will at the next meeting, II there are enough Of
them left outside Of the poor house to meet, be-
fore they meet on that beautiful shore, is the re-
cent 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 price
Of paper up almost o hundred per cent. There Is
nothing to prevent them from doing 1t, as foreign
manufactured paper is kept out Of the country by
the tariff. Every article that goes into the CON
struction Of rag paper, except Eastwood, sweat
and water, has q tariff on IT, The soda, the asa.
foetida and blue mass, or whatever is used, has a
corn ON 1t in the shape Of tariff, so that the pa.
per manufacturing three card monte chaps have
an excuse to bleed newspapers to the last drop
What the newspapers want, and they believe 1t ia
not an unreasonable demand, is the removal OF
the tariff on type, on rags on paper, and on all
chemicals used in the manufacture Of paper.
The newspapers Of the country believe they are
entitled to some consideration at your hands.
They are in many instances the instruments
through which many Of You have attained the
positions you now hold, and they have never got
much from you except Patent ONCE reports and
agricultural documents. They have set up nights
for you, and done dirty work that may bar them
out Of participation In the chariot racl In the
golden streets Of the New Jerusalem. and now
they demand that you protect them from the type
founding and paper making grasshoppers before
II 10 everlastingly too late.
Not being one Of the "d-d literary feller" so
touchingly alluded to by Senator Simon Cameron
this epistle to you Corinthians Tlay be little raw
and not as polished as II should be- but IT tries to
representthe feelings of the newspaper men Of
Wisconsin in language that the wayfaring man,
though diabolical idiot can understand, and 1t
means business. II you great men pass bill to
give us relief, you will strike 1t rich, and don't
you forgetit
Yours about mad enough,
GEORGE W. PECK,
President Wisconsin Editors and Publisher AS
ISOLATION. ~