The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05

Pecl's Views I'm Regard to the Tariff on type
| and Paper-halxlng Materials.

PecIx's Views I'm Regard To the Tariff on Type
and Paper Making Materials.
Geo. w. Peck, of Milwaukee, has
addressed the following memorial to
Congress. The M. C.'s will read it,
whatever else they may do In regard TO
the matter discussed:
OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF
WISCONSIN EDIroRs' AND PUBLISHERS Assn,
MILWAUKEE, Feb. ~, loeo.
To Senator's and Members of Congress:
1t becomes my painful official duty to address
you few lines, and il you will pay attention
and allow the ideas herein advanced to gently
enter your several systems without the aid OF
surgical operation or shotgun, 1t VIII Do
cussed sight more than we have right to ex-
pect Al the annual meeting Of the Wisconsin
Editors and Publishers 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 resolutions 70 your
attention.:
sWHEREAs, The type foundries Of the Uni
ted States have formed combination for the
purpose OF imposing such terms and regula-
tons So 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
difficulties in the way of o. tanning type from
foreign countries are such as to afford ample
protection 10 American type foundries without
the addition Of the safeguard OF tariff, there
fore
sResolved, 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 Wis
consin in Congress are urgently requested to
use their influence and efforts to secure aspeedy
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 into the waste bas-
ket In the name of 40,UO0,0O0 people, be the
same moro or less, l ask you not to lose your
cud, but ruminate, as ii were, and think over
the highway robbery that ID being practiced
upon your unsophisticated constituents by the
type founders, who are laundering the news
papers. AS it is now, they stand III the en-
trance 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 hon
orable body AFFORDS them, i'll the way Of tariff,
they grapple the throat of every newspaper in
America aud say Keno" while the newspaper
publisher can only return his chips to the deal
er and say-words of disapproDation. Every
article that is used by newspaper man, eX-
cepting secondhand ulster overcoats and liver,
is projected by tariff that makes the cold
chills run up his spine.
Another thing that the association did not
pass any resolutions about but which they
probably will at the next meeting, if there al %
enough of them left outside of the poog-house
to meet before they meet on that beautiful
shore, il the recent action of the MANUFACTURE
ers of paper, who are endeayorlng 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 lUU
per cent There Is nothing 10 prevent them
from doing il, as foreign manufactured paper
is kept out of the country by the tariff. Every
article that goes into the construction OF rag
paper, except Eastwood, sweat and water, has
a tariff on it, The soda, the asaf9ida AID
blue mass, or whatever is used TO deodorize
undershirts and cast-oH drawers, so
that they will smell good in a News
paper has corn on it in the
shape of tariff, so that the paper manufacture
ing three-card- monte chaps have an excuse to
bleed newspapers TO the last drop. What the
newspapers want aud they believe it IL 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.
In tariff on rags df there is no tariff on rags
you had better put one on, unless you remove the
tariff on the rest of the stuff; il 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 clippers and swimmers occasionally for
four-sack full of bad-smelling rags Are the
ag-pickers and old maids your principal con-
stituents?
The newspapers of the country believe that
they are entitled to some consideration at your
hands. They are, in many instances, the in
etruments through which many OF you have at
tanned the POSITIONS You now hold, and they
never have got much OF anything from you ex-
cept Patent Office reports and agricultural doc
uments. 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 de-
mand that you protect them from the ravages
of the type-founding and paper making grass
hoppers, before it is everlastingly too late.
Not being one of the = literary fellers" 80
touchingly alluded to by the great Senator Simon
Cameron, this epistle to You Corinthians may
be little raw, and not as polished as it should
be, but it tries to represent the feelings OF the
the wayfaring man, though a diabolical idiot,
can understand and it means business The
newspapers are desperate, and, while they don't
want to go on the war-rath, they feel that they
have been ravished about enough blythe differ
ent tribes Of benefciaries of the Governments
If you great men will pass bill TO give us re-
lief you will strike it rich, and don't you for
get it. GEO w. PECK,
President Wisconsin Editors and Publishers
Association