The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-10-10

Ell thah ~ coSL last year me premium list, tn
rn list of Premiums awarded, and all the notice
~ OF the Society to be published in both paper
- gratn'tOns'y. This proposition was declined b.
'u the President and Secretary, and the printing
- was taken to Steubenville We make thi
m statement that our readers may understand
G, why it is that the Premium list has not beer
published as heretofore, in the Republican ant
Sentinel" .
The correctness Of the above statement has
n been admitted both by the President and Secre
tary OF the Society.
;. Our county Fair is now over, and we pro
pose to make such additional remarks as will
explain our position, and leave the matter with
the people.
# With the Harrison County Agricultural So
o ciety we have no quarrel, nor do we intend
Il having any. We are satisfied that the action
of the President and Secretary ofthe Society
as set forth in the above article, does not meet
the approval ofa majority OF the members Of
the Society, or of this commuty; and we know
that several of the officers Of the Society disap-
prove of the course pursued by their Presi
dent and Secretary. Then John G. JamiSon
, and Jacob Jarvis are solely responsible for the
difficulty that exists between the Society and
the Press, and with them, only have we to do.
The Harrison county Agricultural Society was
organized in lS47-13 years ago. For the first
eight years of its existence the patronage rece
we'd from it by the Press amounted to about
jfve dollars a yenr. Yet during all that time
the Premium List, the list Of Premiums awar.
ded, the notices for meetings of the Society. &c.
&c, were all published gratwtous'y. Since
1856, the Society has been getting pamphlets,
cards, bills, &c, printed which up to this year
has been done, alternately, at the two offices
in this place, and for which they received rea.
sonable compensation This year the President
and Secretary of the Society John G. Jamison
and Jacob Jarvis concluded to have their print
ing done at Job office in Steubenyille. BY so
doing they have probably saved the Society
t>Cenfy dollars. And as the President and Sec
re'ary took the paying part Of the printing
to Jefferson county, we concluded to let the
gratuito@s part slide also. Consequently we
have not published the premium list; nor do we
intend publishing the list of premiums awar-
ded, while John G. Jamison and Jacob Jarvis
remain the President and Secretary of the So.
ciety. If the action of these gentlemen be re
pudated by the Society; if other and better
men be selected to fill their places, at the next
annual election OF officers, we will than publish
gratuitously as heretofore, the list of premium
awarded at our late county Fair Such is our
position; and, believing that we are in the right,
we will not be driven from it by threats OF 9th
erwise.
Look for a momeut at the course pursued by
the President and Secretary OF your Agricutu
raj Society against the Press oftheir own coun-
ty. First, they went to Steubenville and as
certained the lowest figures for which they
could get their printing done at job Office
Conn& & Mills made out their bill knowing that
they had to compete with the Press of tn i |
county, and they no doubt put the figures as
low as possible. With this bill in their pockets
the worthy President and Secretary comes to
us to ascertain our prices They tell us they will |
give so much for doing job work and publishing
through tie paper and that if we don't do it for
what they offer they will 60 to S eubenvlle
and get it done. We declined the proposition.
not because We cared about the tweaty dollars
that was between Us, but because we were de-
termincd not to be driven to their figures: and
they did go to Steubenville. How much the
have saved the Society by the operation, we do
not know certainly, but il cannot exceed tven-
ty dollnrs.
BY this act of the presid ,nt an l Secretary Of
the Harrison county Agricultural Society, ahou,
one hundred dollars of the proceeds o our late
county Fair goes to pay for printing done in
StcubenUiHe. IL I'd it been pad out in this coun
ty it would have returned again to the pockets
OF our peoples for we expend evsry dollar that
we receive in this community. Now, if the
Agricultural Society justify this act of theiR
President and Secretary, they will of course
re-e'ect them; but IT they do not they will dis
pense with their services.
But it may be asked--why is it that the
country Press cannot do job work as CHEAP as n
city job office? W. answer: for the same rea
cons that we cannot afford to publish a paper
as cheap as the New York Tribune establish
ment or other Eastern monopolies: for the
same reason thata Harrison county farmer can.
not afford 70 produce corn and raise pork as |
cheap as an Illinois farmer; for the same reason
that Cabinet maker in Cadiz cannot afford to
manufacture Furniture as cheap as the large es-
Establishments in Cincinnati and other cities.
where the principle part OF the work S done by
If he conductors of the country
Press were compelled to furnish their papers as
cheap as the Eastern papers are furnished and
do job work at the same prices charged by city
job offices, there is not a dozen papers in Ohio,
outside Of Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland
that could live three months.
The course pursued by the President and
Secretary of the Harrison county Agricultural
Society towards the Press of this county would
drive out of existence every country paper in
the State, if adopted by the people generally. -
But We presume that there are but few in this
community who are disposed to wage war OF
determination against their county papers; and
we think our special frieads the President and {
Secretary, will yet find out that the course /
pursued against tho Press OF this county 4
will not have the intended effect, viz: to increase