Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-02-04
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tiers and Publisher
Tinkering-SPiggOtS Saving and
RungsHOle Leaking.

tiers and Publisher -BuncOnDe
Tinkering-SPiggOtS Saving and
Bung-HOle Leaking.
As if it were to keep up the consist
ency of hat body, the Legislature, (now
in session at Columbus, it should occa-
sionly be repeated has again, like near
ly every Assembly preceding it for the
last twenty years, gone to tinkering at
the compensation of printers and publish
ers in Ohio. To afford the reader an
idea of the character of the last move in
this line of economy, it is only neeessa-
~ to give the following resolution, which
was passed last week:
.'Resolved, That the reporting clerk
of each branch of this Assembly furnish
a daily report of the proceedings. and
debates of each of said bodies to the
Ohio Statesman andthe Ohio State Jour
nal, in due time for their respective is
sues of said papers. Provided, The pro-
prietors of said papers shall receive So
per day each, and no more, for publish
ing the same in their daily tri-weekly
and weekly issues /; Ind provided Gr-
tier, That the said proprietors shall pub
lish all matter furnished them by the
said reporters"
Five dollars, the compensation for
publishing, in the daily, tri-weekly and
weekly issues of the Statesman and the
Journal, all the motions, resolutions, re-,
ports, ayes and noes, speeches, whether
for utility, ornament, Buncombe or what
not-in a word, all the doings of every
body in the Legislature, whether wise or
silly If the reporters, on their part,
comply with the spirit of the proposition,
and furnish official copy to those two.
Journals, there will scarcely be room in
their columns for anything but the do
ings ofour wise hU-nlakers, and all their
columns of three separate editions, are
to be compensated with fee dollars u
day! We are not advised how the two
metropolitan papers regard such a prop
%osition, or whether they Will notice it
at all but we are prepared to see them
both spurn it as contemplate and insult
ing.
We do not recollect of 4 Legislature
meeting at Columbus, for the the last
twenty years-espccially when tho De-
mocraey were in the ascendant, we are.
ashamed to say-that their doings were
not distinguished by some small potato
demagogue, some penny-wise and pound
foolish, hypocritical economist getting
up a crusade against printers aud pub
Hshcrs. The press, too, has borne the
repeated ~indignity with a marvellous de
gree of liberation. After its conductors
las has often been the case in our OWE
knowledge--had labored among party
friends to nave some ia sorite nominated
in convention, then, after that, laboring
night and day for his success with the
people, writing column after column and
printing token after token, gratuitously,
too, to get him to Columbus, about the
first act of gratitude his good friend does
for him is to introduce a resolution or
bill, ormake a flaming Buncombe speech,
full of clat-trap and cant, about useless
expenditures of the peoples money, en-
ding with the cutting down of half-liy-
ing to full-starving prices, over which he
4~expects his=ea4=kA4Eaas.AaEglarify hit4
for a marvellous wathfulness of their
suffering interests!
In the mean time, while saving those
spiggot dribblings, we often see this mo
del economist voting for some craft y
gotten up scheme TO saddle the peoI lie
with prohigate expenditures, or 6!ch
from them some valuable interest, to be
transferred to the enjoyment of favored
combinations or individuals. The thing
has long since been run into the ground,
and the press is false to itself, to its own
rights and its general usefulness, to toll
crate any man, be he whom he may,
who will now undertake to Cypress aud
cripple it by such contemplate clat-trap
economy as we have here noticed in
general terms.
Of this last feature in printing econ
omy it is proper for us to add that its
D Eternity S, ems to be Mr.. PHELPS, the
senator from Auglaize, and mastering
on Il e Democratic side of that body
Possibly he may be proud of his bant-
ling.
As Democrats, as old publishers, as
advocates of the Bible doctrine, that she
LaJorer Is uo-thy Of has hire" we must
say that We are not proud of Mr.. PHELPS.
Possibly he, too, like many little mind
cd demagogues before him, may have
imbibed the idea that there is growing
greatness in such laEors of retrcnchment.
Possibly, however, there is something
deeper than all this in his move. All !.
there may be Maybe he would have
the silly doings and the windy speeches
and the Reconsideration d~isreputable
moves of himselfand his fellow members
suppressed entirely, and their constitu-
ency bfindfolded to their good, bad and
Indifferent acts therefore, then, p.opo-
sition to publish at such rates that no
paper can live on them Cunning Mr..
PHELPS, if that be SO !-CEncinnati En-
quir =.
THE $4,000 LEGACY.-The reader
will recollect the detailed account which
We give a few months ago, of a legacy
| # by a wealthy Enelishman named
Wright, to a young girl named Muntz,
with whom he was acquainted in Day
ton some twenty years ago, where he
and she resided at that time. By the
advertisement in another column, it will
be seen that the then Miss Muntz. is now
Mrs. Dobler, and resides with her hus-