Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-18
The County Delinquent Tar List AMI
the CITY Deitnaaen Tss List-.Goi
Cookery CornsFed and suehny
Eut8 iu the Ground.

the city Deitnaasnt Tss Ltss=cei.
GookertY Cornefed ana shshtis
ran IA the Ground.
u will be reeolleeted by every reader OF
lhs Journal, that tho following paragraph
va, kept ior months paraded at the head OF
r..sfesding column Of that paper. twill
be reeolleeied this paragraph was thrust In
10 the face Of its readers from day to day,
from week to week. and for months. IL
was kept before the people" as though
We had been guilty OF great outrage upon
the public treasury. aud had dishOnorably
taken more than was due US. Here is the
paragraph. il is familiar 10 the reader;
Keep il before the people that X. N.
Hudson, editor OF the Express, who was a
great advocate Of economy, before the last
election, charged the county one hundred
aud seventy five dollars more Tor publish
ing the delinquent list, than IL could have
been published for This sum was paid to
him by order OF the Board Of Commission
ers.
Here We are accused of charging the
county for publishing the delinquent list
SITS, more than il could be done for
A demagogus always has a short memo
~, and is never impelled by honest con
victions. II he exposes anything that is
wrong, it is not because he hates the wrong,
bat because he hopes 10 make political
capital out Of il. IL he pleads for virtue,
il is not because he really faVOrs it, bot
because he expects thereby 10 attain some
political end.
We felt assured that all wshad to do was
to wait, aud the opportunity would soon
occur by which we would be able, not only
TO show TO this community that We did NOT
charge the county too much for the work
we did for il, but tina. Col. Cookery him
self, charged much more for the same kind
Of work. We felt assured that the time
would come round when we would be able
TO do this thing That time has now arri'
we'd
On the 9Th day of February last, tie
Tsrre Haute Journal commenced the pub
LEGATION Of the delinquent tax list, for this
city. II was precisely such an advertise
meDt as the delinquent tax list which we
published for the county. The county 8
was published four weeks successfully
while the city's was published but three.
A few days ago the editor Of the Terre
Haute Journal.-the same individual who
had kept Il before the people" for months,
that we had been extortionate in our
charge against the county, hand ID in his
bill for publishing the City Delinquent
Tax list. And now comes the duplicity oil
The editor.
The work we did for the county, was
537 squares. we published it four weeks,
and charged for the same 1927 50
which is fraction less than SIXTY one cents
per square. The work which the editor Of
the Journal did for the city amounted to
10 squares-he published it three weeks
aud charged the city for the same SI4 IS
which is fraction less than one dol
lar aud t.oenty four cents per square. Thi.
is a fraction over double the charge mad,
fer precisely he same kind Of rork for h'
county. Had we charged the county tho
same rates that our neighbor charged the
city. instead Of the 1897 so that the county
paid us for the work, our bill would have
been s665,55. Or had we charged thu
county at the same rates that Mr.. Cookery
charged the city, for precisely the sans
KIDD o. work, our bill would have been
three handred and thirty eight dollars and
hing-eigh cents, Ioore than il was.
We do not say that our beighbor has
charged the city too much, indeed his bill
ia very reasonable one, and - low rs any
printing Office can afford to do the work
The city should never aud we presume il
never did grumble at such prices. but II Is
little more than double what We charged
The county for the same kind Of work, and
we published IL four weeks, whereas our
neighbor published IL bat three.
We review this matter IN order that our
readers may see the sincerity there il in
soae men. and how their prcepts accord
with their practices. But il Mr.. Cookery :
bill was reasonable one against the city,
was not ours against the county macb more
so9 five charged the county too much,
how does il stand between him and the