The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1849-11-15

my ana hdNt, tHSiSioIt, no Fi89nt ~ say
ANYTHING; and we undertake to say,
that il. according to those rules, the a.
mount charged by the Pioneer office for
incidental printing, press work and pa
per, is not under charged in our bills,
we will agree to forfeit one hundred dol
lars; aud we will agree to submit the
whole matter to the decision of either of
the oldest printers in Galcna or Saint
Louis.
But what will be said-wiIl it be be-
lievcd, that the Chronicle got through
an appropriation of over seven hundred
doIlars-about one-third as much as
the Pioneer, although we did prob
ably Observation-Disclosures Of the inciden-
tai printing business, for which their
total want Of energy and business habits,
wholly disqualified the Chronicle con-
Germ: No wonder they leg some for
Mr.. Wilkinson, who had the astonishing
mpudcnce to carry through for them an
allowance OF two or three hundred dol
lars fer printing Ike message i" The
Chronicle.
Nice, scrupulous, conscientious men,
to take three times as much as it was
worth" for doing thing which nobody
ever before dreamed would be paid for at
all!
From the first, while we have uni-
lormly treated the Chronicle with fair
ness, candor and integrity, making con-
ccssions to which we have adhered al
ways in good faith, we have met with
nothing on their part but hypocrisy. ha-
tired, lalsehoods, aspcrsions and at
tempts to gain sneaking advantages.
With characteristic baseness, they have
snapped at the hand that fed them.
The Chronicle does not believe that
we could possibly do SO much printing
No wonder it surprised the Chronicle;
FIR Notwithstanding the perpetual d,ssen-
sions secretly sown by them amongst a
part Of our workmon, u most mean and
contemplate kind Of Indian warfare in
which they seem cminently skiliul, We
| did do at least twice as much work as
our slip-shod neighbor could have done
with the same hands. Why, their very
first effort in Incidental printing, was Il
! failure. In their hands, for the first
time in the session, the daily journals
failed to be got ready for the morning
session, although they had nothing but
the journals to print. That wretched
s,ring-b concern, which came here
under pawn, both branches OF it---mort-
garcd for freight and storage, which
has been under distress, once entirely
stopped-twico under attachment and
always without influence or pecunlary
crcdit-oxisting only by sufierance and
which could not possibly have survived
through the coming winter, bat for our
concession to it Of the printing OF part
of the laws and journals-this poor old
hulk, without a helmsman, which has
been under the command Of every body
and nobodv-such folks as Quay, Ow-
ems and Akenside, Young, Mclean and
Foster, by turns taking hand at the
rudder-this poor, mutinous, Sod-fogsa-
ken craft. which is now dashing her
bottom out on the shoals OF bankruptcy
cries out Justify against the Pioneer for
offering them relicf-givng them some
thing to do and ''three times as much as
it is worth" for doing it.
This whole matter is easily explained.
The outcry of the Chronicle is nothing
more nor less than an attempt to raise a
smoke through which the Secretary
may retreat from the volley of indig-
nant rebuke which his meanness and ras-
calty have provoked. If the rest Of
the kennel expect, by raising united
howl. to save either the Secretary or
themselves from castigation, they arc
much mistaken.