Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-01-15
A Few Plain Statements Honestly
Made.

this we have been compelled to do, no
because we disliked Dodgeville as 10
cation mot because we have any con
troversy with any of the Dodgevillt
people not because we disliked tht
business Of issuing secular paper )
for no cause in the world other thar
that of being unable to sustain our
selves and keep out Of debt, and there
arc few things on this earth that VIC
loathe more than being in debt; and
running the printing office in Dodgeyille
has been running sus in debt every day
for the last three months or more; And
this any one can see when we make an
honest statement Of facts. 1t will take
at least the labor of two pretty smart
boys to set up the type for the CHRoN-
IcLE, full size each week their labor
is certainly worth six dollars, paper for
five hundred copies will cost at least
two dollars and fifty cents, in fact, for
the last few weeks, it has cost four dol
lars at the very lowest; light and fire
costs at least one dollar and twenty five
cents week; rent Of room costs one
dollar and twenty FIVE cents a week in
cidental expenses costs fifty cents a
week here, then, we have an aggregate
of thirteen dollars week leaving not
one cent for any labor the editor may
expend, To meet this outlay we have
not averaged more than six dollars on
the CHRONICLE account for the last four
or five months. The list of subscribers
have increased some fifty in the time
but the white paper costs all that the
subscription amounts to, or very near it.
Had We an independent income of two
thousand dollars year, we might have
managed TO have stood this while, but
VIC have not and must succumb. We
don't blame any one, nor are we sure
that any blame is attachable to any one
There is printing business Of some
two thous and dollars a year connected
with the affairs Of Iowa Co. for the last
two years al. tie county business payable
in county orders done in this Office
amounts to the respectable sum OF one
hundred and five dollars mind you,
this is for two years; the printing has been
done elsewhere. But we do not blame
any one, officers have right to have
their work done where they please and
rs they please. We have offered to do
the county work or part Of the coun-
ty'work as cheap and as well, as it can be
done elsewhere. We have offered to
take part Of the work and do it as cheap
and as well as at any other printing
concern in the county, No! we must
not have it; - we don't blame any
one. Our office is furnished with hun
dreds of dollars worth of new type, and
for anything we have heard to the con-
trary, what has been done at this ofhce
has been satisfactorily done, still the
Chronicle Office located at the county
seat must not be patronized. Well,gcn-
tlemen, we don't blame you, nor can
YOU blame us for moving away where
we can at any rate, carry on little
printing on our own hook at less ex-
pense than we can do it at Dodgeyllle.
If you cannot believe this statement,
which is a true one however, look over
the files Of the county papers and COM
pare the county business done IN them
with the county business done in the
ADVOCATE that was, and the CHRONICLE
that is, and see for yourselves.
There are men in Dodgeville who do
not relish the idea of being without a
press and a paper in the place, and per
haps it is the only county seat in the
world, especially in this American
world, where press has to stop and g
paper fail because the county, nor the
business people in the place will not
support it, but so it is here, these are
the facts. Perhaps the times will
change in this particular in reference tc
Dodgeyille sometime, but the present
managers of this affair cannot wait and
run in debt while waiting for that
good time to come. Some one may
come, perhaps viii come, and very
lEkelv will suoceed better The