The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-06

| QDltcIClo EAcSONlbtlOAl3 pay ih5 ACA
| the removal of duties on chemicals
and such other dutiable articles as
inter- into the manufacture of paper.
Anticipating for it the usual fate of
such documents, Mr.. Geo. w. Peck,
| president of the association, append
ed over his own signature a post
script, the evident purpose of which
is TO get satisfaction out of Congress
in advance. The postscript accom-
panies the formal memorial, and is
as follows:
"NoW that you have read the res
Olutions it is supposable case that
you will feel that your next duty is
to throw them into the waste basket.
In the name of 40,000,000 of people,
be the same more or less, ] ask you
not to lose your cud, but ruminate,
as it were, and think over the high
way robbery that is being practiced
upon your unsophisticated constitu-
ents by the type-founders, who are
laundering the newspapers. AS it is
now they stand in the entrance of
| bIG CAlbVl CdlICtuiH anu TAKE the
money that comes in on subscription,
and only allow the publisher he cord
wood and farm produce. BY the pro-
lection your alleged honorable body
affords them in the way of tariff,
they grapple the throat of every
newspaper in America and shy
Keno" while the newspaper pub
Usher can only return his chips to the
dealer and say "Oh, hill" Every
article that is used by a newspaper
man, except secondhand ulster over
coats and liver pads, is protected by
a tariff that makes the cold chills run
up his spine.
"An0ther thing that the associa-
ton did not pass any resolutions
about, but which they probably will
at the next meeting, if there are
enough of them left outside the poor
house to meet, before they meet on
that beautiful shore, is the recent ac-
ton of the manufacturers of paper,
who are endeavoriDg 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 100
per cent. There is nothing to prevent
them from doing it, as foreign man
utactured paper is kept out Of the
country by the tariff. Every article
that goes into the cons ructiOn of rag
paper, except Eastwood and water,
has tariff on it. What the news
papers want, and they felieye it is
not an unreasonable demand, is the
removal of the tariff on type, on rags,
on paper. and all chemicals used in
the manufacture of paper. In a tariff
on rags if there is no tariff on rags,
you had better put one on, unless
you remove the tariff on the rest of
the stuff; if tariff is good thing
you can't have too much Of 1t for in
stance, whom do yon protect? No
body but guttersnipe rag pickers and
old maids who save up rags to buy
snuff, and tin pedlers who trade tin
clippers and skimmers occasionally
for flour sack full of bad smelling
rags. Are the rag plckers and old
maids your principal constituents?
1.-The newspapers of the country
believe that they are entitled to some
consideration at your hahds. They
areln many instances,the instruments
through which many of you have at
taired the positions you now hold,
and they have never got much of
anything from you except Patent
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 e-founding and
paper-making grasshoppers before it
is everastingly too late.
Not being one of the id litera
ry felers' so touchlngly alluded to by
the great senator Simon Cameron,
this epistle to you Corinthians may
be little raw and not SO polished as
it should be but it tries to represent
the feelings OF the newspaper men of
Wisconsin in language that tie way
faring man, though diabolical idiot,
can understand, and it means bust
ness. The newspapers are desperate
and while they don't want to go on
the war path, they feel that they
nave ptSlI IdNiSIleu dDOul eIlOuSH DX
the different tribes Of benificiaries of
the government. Is you great men
will pass a bill to give US relief you
will strike it rich, and don't you for
get it,"
FLEEING FROM FAMINE.
New YORK, Feb. 27.-There is al
ways very marked increase in the
steerage passenger list from England
and Ireland after what is called "a
bad season." when the harvests have
been poor and the crops have failed,
and the peasants and laborers have
consequrl tly suffered the unusual
priyations of the winter following a
bad season. The exodus toward the
bright shores of American generally
sets in in the spring, and the Com
missioners of Emigration, knowing,
after the terrible famine which has
ravaged certain districts of Hungary
and which Is now causing such dis,
tTeSS all over Ireland that tho am; |