Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-12-17

eve, printers of Madison might perhaps Justly
complain of that want of goodfellowshfp and pro-
iessionai honor on the part of neighbors, who,
knowing that our all is involved and our existence
depending upon the work belonging to the town.
enter into competition for no other purpose than
TO speculate upon our nccessties-to compel us TO
buy them off and thus reduce the business below
living rates; but we will not"
So says the Madison Argus, in speaking of the
object of the proposed editorial convention and
ball, which the Madison editors have called and
arranged to be held at that place; and it gives We
ry good ground for the suspicion entertained that
these worthless have got up this matter to get some
very dull axes ground they have on hand. We
say 1t is piece of impudent assumption for these
fellows to say the state printing belongs to that
town. 1t is true the law prescribcs it shall be done
there, but it is state work. done for the people OF
the state, and paid for by them, and moreover is
let out by contract, and every printer in the state
or out OF IT. has not only right to bid, but is in
yited to bid. Not allowing these fellows to com.
bine to plumber the treasury, may be breach
OF such good fellowship and professional honor as
prevails among thieves, but we deny that is any
breach OF that which governs honest business and
business men. If is any part of the business of
TINS editorial convention to guarantee them full
SWING at the treasury, we trust they will have a
good time of it.
But look little further at the modesty and viz
tue of these deeply injured individuals. With re.
ference to the late letting of printing the Madison
printers had in bid in the name of David T. Dick
son, which was rejected for nformality, but which
bad - han,, Ill 4
as they contended, figured five hundred dollars a
year less than the bid which was accepted. So i,
appears that these individuals who meant to spec.
ulate out of their necessities did not come within
hve hundred dollars year of bidding as low as
they did themselves and moreover in buving off the
successful one, instead of by that means reducing
the business below living rates. they made at least
five hundred dollars above their own proposition
And yet these are the gentleman whose great for
bearance and pious resignation only prevent them
from complaining. We can assure them and the
public too of another thing that so far from the
bid being made to compel them to buy off to their
own ruin, had the state officers done their duty by
deciding the matter when they ought to, another
press would have been established there, and thew
would have had no opportunity of buying off II
was only the negligence of the Board of Appeal
in delaying four months what the law says shall be
done 'Withom delay" thus rendering the getting OF
the necessary material in time difficult, if not inn
possible, that gave them the chance to buy, and al
their own terms. But of this, pfalably more will
be heard in different manner, as the question is
worth testing whether state functionaries can thus
neglect their duty to the injury of citizens.
Perhaps in the whole history of Typography,
from the time of Faust to the present no such want
of what these fellows call good fellowship and pro-
fcssional honor, has been elsewhere exhibited as
they perpctually manifest. When the opportuni-
ty is favorable they combine among themselves
and fleece the state and when it is not they quar-
rel and compete among themselves, last year run
ming the prices down at least one hundred per cent
lower than the lowest bid away from Madison. II
this convention of Doctors they have called to cure
the typographical ills of the state shall succeed at
this sitting, in making patriotic, disinterested and
unselfsh Individuals of our Madison brethren,
it will have done great work but we don't
think it will