The Osceola times., 1880-04-03
TYPE AND PAPER.
Peck's Petition for Repeal of Existing
Duties.

yanced to gently enter your several sys-
tens without the aid OF a surgical oper-
alton or shotgun, IL Will be a cussed
sight more than we have right to ex-
pect. At the annual meeting OF the WIS
consin Editors and Publishers assocla-
ton held last June at Oshkosh, after the
members had been formally admitted TO
the insane asylum, they passed the lol-
lowing whereases and resolutl )ns, De
tween free lunchesan picnics, and made
me the humble instrument of torture to
bring the aforesaid whereases and reso-
lutions to your attention:
WHEREAs the type foundries of the
United States have formed comblna-
ton for the purpose of imposing such
terms and regulations as they choose
upon trade; and
WHEREAS they have been and are us
ing their organization to the great dlsad-
vantage and injury to their patrons, the
printers and publishers of the country;
and
WHEREAS the ordinary and permanent
difficulties in the way of obtaining type
from foreign countries are such as to al
ford ample protection to American type
foundries without the addition OF the
safeguard of a tariff; therefore,
ResOlred that the just interests OF the
printers and publishers of the United
States require that the tariff on type metal
| and tyne bc removed.
/ Resoired that the representatives OF
| Wisconsin in congress are urgently re-
/ quested to use their influence and efforts
to secure Il speedy abolition of such tar
| it,
Now that you have read the resolu-
tons, it is a supposable case that you
will feel that your next duty Il to throw
/ them into the wastebaskct. In the name
| OF 40,000,000 people, be the same more
or less, j ask you not to lose your cud,
ruminate as it were, and think over the
| highway ROBBERY that is being practlced
upon sur unsophisticaIed constituents
| by the type founders, who are founder
| ing the newspapers. As it Is now they
| stand in the entrance OF the editorial
sanctum and take the money that comes
| in on subscriptions, and only allow the
publisher the cordwood and farm pro,
duce. by the protection your alleged
| honorable body affords them in the way
of tariff, they gINpple the throat OF every
newspaper in America, and say Keno,
while the newspaper publisher can only
return his chips TO the dealer ana say
80 hell" Every article that Is used by
newspaper men, excepting second-hand
ulster overcoats and liver, IS protected by
a tariff that makes the cold chills run up
/ his spine. go
Another thing that the association did
not pass any resolutions about, but when
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 re-
cent action of the manufacturers OF pa
per. who are endeavoring to screw down
| the lid of the newspaper collin which
| the type-fOunders are preparing Tor the
grave. In the last three months, 10y
their own sweet will, they have run the
price of paper up almost 100 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 article that goes into theconstruc-
ton of rag-paper except Eastwood,
sweat and water, has tarlfl on II. The
soda, the asalGtida and blue-mass, and
cast OF drawers, so that they will smell
good in a newspaper, 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 newspa pcrs
want. and they believe it is not an un-
reasonable demand, is the removal of the
tariff on type, on rags, on paper, and on
all chemicals used in the manufacture OF
paper. In a tariff on rags (if there is no
| tariff on rags you better put one on, un-
] 4 IN aytH hn q
the stuff, if tariff is good thing YOU
can't have too much oft, Tor instance,
whom do you protect? Nobody but gut
tersnipe rag-pickers, and old maids who
save up rags to buy snuff, and tin ped
ders who trade tin-dippers and skim
mers occasionally for a tlour-sack full of
| bad smelling rags. Are the rag-pickers
and old maids your principal constitu-
ents?
The newspapers of the country belev
! 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-oiiice repcr's 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-tounding and paper-maklng grass
| hoppers before it is everlastingly too
| late.
Not being one Of the id literary
| felers" so couchingly alluded to by the
/ great Senator Simon Cameron, this epis-
| tie TO you Corinthians may be a little
raw and not as polished as 1t should be
| but il tries to represent the feelings of
| the newspaper men of Wisconsin in
| language that the wayfaring man. though
| a diabol'cal IDIOT, can understand. and
/ it mean bu ness. The newspapers are
desperate, and, while they don't want to
/ go on the war path, they feel that they
have been ravished about enough by the
/ different trioes of bene iiciaries of the
| government. If you great men will pass
a bill to give us relief you will strike ii
rich, and don't you forget it.
Yours, about mad enough,
GEORGE w. PECK,
/ President Wisconsin Editors and Pub
/ fishers Association.
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