Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1856-05-31
"FACTS AND

We refer the reader to the article on our
first page headed "Facts and Figures" The
writer in the Gazette of last week, insisted
upon our producing them, and we have done
so, and we hope to his satisfaction; and we
defy him or anybody else to refute them.
We are in hopes that the present Police
Jury will take more at heart the interest of
Tax Payers, than the Police Juries which
have preceded it, and that, in awarding a cons
tract for printing, (f' they are not disposed to
divide it) or any other work. will not pay
more for it TO one man, than another will do
it for.
In New Orleans. where politics run as high
as any locality in the State, tie Council would
not dare to pay a %fayorite publisher a higher
price for the printing than another.
Having shown conclusively, then, in our ar
ticle on the first page, that q fraction over
$500 per annum was all that we received for
the printing, evan when we had no opposition,
and when We might, with success, have charged
more, we think that the honorable members of
the present Police Jury will hesitate to pay
$500 more per annUm for work than was paid
to us, and which is $3.50 more than one of
their own members, himself a printer, says it
is worth. 1t must be recollected, too, that the
amount Of $500, paid us, would never have
reached anything near that amount but for the
unusual quantity Of printing done by US dur
ing the two or three last years, and which has
not occurred since, and may never occur again.
1t may safely be asserted that, but for the
changing of the State Constitution, causing a
number of elections in the parish, and a con-
sequent increase in the printing expenses. and
the levee law pamphlet, &c, alluded to, our
bill for printing would not have averaged $3.50
per annum!
We did not intend to proceed thus far, but,
as we have, we will go a little farther.
The writer in the Gazette boasts of its large
subscription list. It certainly gives us no pain
to hear Of its prosperity in this respect. Whe-
Their true or false, the assertion that it has
double the number of subscribers that any 9TH
er paper ever published in the parish. we have
no means Of ascertaining, and can only reason
from analogy. According TO his account, the
subscription list of the Gazette would pay its
proprietor $500. which is a pretty salary of
itself, we should think, and more we imagine
than he ever received for one years subscrip
ton! We are justified moreover in presum-
ing, that if the aforesaid writer came as near
the truth in bis remarks respecting the number
of subscribers the Gazette has, as he did with
reference TO the parish printing, he missed the
mark about one-half!
We do not ask for the printing, even at
$500 per annum but by every rule of honor
able reciprocity we are entitled to half Of it.
Gas the Wings considered oar opponent vas
10 1848,) and we trust that a more friendly
feeling as we'll as an equitable one, will be
manifested by the present Police Jury board
than by those which preceded it. By dividing
the printing, it will not only be doing a simple
act of justice TO ourself, butt will be doing
one also to the large and respectable class
constitute our readers and their consti~
Iuents.