Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-09-20
5 VIM. UPHAM,
f.. p. WALTON,
HARRY BRADLEY,
GEO. T. HODGES,
CHARLES PAINE,
CHS. X. HOPKINS,
Sept. IL, 1889. ~


| Ot1O. N. f1OIhLNO,
Sept. IL, 1889. a
From He baltimore Chronicle
i PLAIN FACTS.-No. 3.
GOVERNMENT PRINTERS
The Press is admitted TO be, in all countries
where il is free, most powerful engine both
for good and for evil. An unbough press is
the truest sentinel upon the watch-tower oil
liberty but venal, purchased press is libcr-
ty's most dangerous, because it is traitorous
enemy Il cries s'all's we'll" while the rights
of the people are invaded, and becomes the
pauder of power instead Of being the uncom-
promising exposer Of corruption.
Ii would seem that "the powers that be" OF
this country well understand the importance oil
securing the influence Of portion Of the press,
and Of accommodating its Argus eyes with
those goidsR spectacles which have the happy
effect of making all things appear yighi that are
done by those in power, aud of causing an
enemy Of the people TO appear TO be friend.
These golden spectdcies," however, seem
to have been somewhat expensive TO the peo-
pie, as appears from public documents, in ex-
aiming which the following 'plain facts" ap-
! pear.
In 1892 and 1893, the public printing Of the
Government amounted TO $2S6, S93 SO. OF
this sum a few favorite Administration Editors
shared pretty largey for instance
Francis p. Blair, Editor Of the
| Globe, S543l4 90
True & Greene, Editors of the
Boston Statesman, 3O.s9l 90
Hill & Barton, Editors of the N.
II. Patriot, 1896 90
Shadrack Penn, Editor OF the
Louisville Advertiser, 1858 SO
Peter Hay & Co., Editors of the
American Sentinel, $50 i2
Bryant & Leggett, Editors of,he
N. Y. Evening Post, esq II
The whole number of Printers employed,
aud among whom the above sum of assesses
was distributed by the Government was about
three hundred,
have not been able 20 ascertain the amount
paid by Government for public printing 10
1884 and '35, but in 1886 and '37 the amount
was $751; 1854 So; and of this, the amount
paid by the Post Office Department, appears,
from The Blue Book, to be SS3, 760 10. In
1892 and '33 the amount reported by the Post
Office Department, was less than the amount
actually paid, by upwards of thirty thousand
dollars, which was ascertained by the Com.
mittee Of the Senate appointed TO investigate
the affairs of the Post Office, and which dis
covered those famous 'sBaiks aud lwinen
leaks in the Public Treasury.
Surprising the amount reported TO be less
than The amount paid in 1886 and '37, in the
same ratio as il was in 1882 and 1913, the actual
amount paid by the Post Office TO Printers,
would be over $3.50 900 But $S3,760 10 is
by no means a tribe To distribute among Prin-
tiers for "Blanks and Irvine" and advertising,
will, until another investigating committee
discovers the contrary, suppose that this is the
whole amount paid.
or the $751; 1854 SO paid By Government in
1886 and 1877 TO printers, the following received
the sums set TO their names, to wit:
Blair g. Rives, Editors Of the
Globe, 1892, 1893 81
Milllin & Parry, Editors Of the
Pennsylvania, a,742 Sc
5. Medary s. Co., Editors, -,
Ohio, a,772 OF
Cyrus Barton, Editor ofthe NH.
Patriot 3,lo2 90
Peter Hay e. Co. Editors of the
Sentinel, philadelphia, 1889 81
S. g. J. N. Harker, Editors of the
Baltimore Republican, l,o5l,5s
S. Penn, Jr. Editor Of the Louis
vile Advertiser, 5,ol2,is
Langtree & O'Sullivan, publish
ers ofthe Democratic Review, 3,235,4
Beals & Greene, Editors, Boston, IS, 1877 GA
Croswell & Co., Editors Of the
Albany Argus, l,5s2,OO
VIM. c. Bryant & Co. Editors
N. Y. Evening Post, 1922, 9S
Paine g. Clarke, 1922, 10
Calvin Gum, Editor, Missouri, 1850
The amount paid by Government TO Prin-
tiers, as near as can ascertain, is, on an aver
age, about $4,000 or 100000 year, This
distributed among some Two or three hundred
Editors, is an engine Of immense power
knowing as we do the weakness of poor hu-
man nature, can we wonder that So many Ed
itors in the United States should support an
administration in all its measures, right or
wrong, that thus opens to them the food gates
ofpalronage? 1t is for the people, however,
tojudge what degree of influence men who are
thus paid for their support, by the adminisira-
ton, are entitled TO. The facts above stated
American people. MADISON.
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