Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-10-22

us another tlaBt Of bis trumpet. tt
use different Agafs be takes a "neV
departure" His abandonment Of tbs
I declaration that we charged him f0l
rhe publication Of the CoELesiGH this
year "tWo hundred dollars above fan
profit, is noticeable. The figures we
/ o. piTeedueed from our books three week
| ago settled thas little statement. We
showed that our receipts for the ptibs
LEGATION of the CoIIegian last year ex-
eeeded our expenditures only SO. 40
and that Mr.. Nave's declaration that
we charged two hundred dollars above
a fair profit for that year was a. least
SI24.6O remote from the truth. He
seems to think this showing abusive.
We shall expect him to say pretty soon
that calculus Is an immoral work and
that geometric theorems are SANDER
Gus. IF these figures are abusive we
can't help it.
But abused as be is Brother Nave
is not without comfort. He attacks
our financial management and COM
mercial forethought. and impeaches
our business capacity, In the imperfec-
ton thereof he fndeth great eonsOla-
ton. Well, if business capacity consists
in taking printing at a ruinous price
simply to get it away from your neigh
Dor we confess we have not gOt it. We
notify Mr.. Nave and any others con
cerned that We are not doing business
on that basis. We tell him further
more that We do not consider it the
highest point ofmoral excellence to get
mechanics or business men by the ears
so as to compel them TO do their work
or sell their wares at less prices than
they can afford. Justice requires will
ingness to pay a fair price or in other
words to Live and let live" and to
have succeeded in compelling any one
to take less than fair and living price
is not a thing to boast Of
Mr.. Nave sounds in our ears the dec
laration that we being Republicans,
$500 more year than he pays the Her.
aid. Not at all. We don't want him
to pay US continental penny unless
he chooses. The publication of the
CoEegiGn at our price was not sufficient
Iy profitable TO make it very desira-
BILE acquisition or its loss serious det-
nment. We repeat that we are most
profoundly Indifferent as to where it is
published. We offered to take it at
the lowest rate we could afford and
don't want it at less one. 1t is only
with the charge of extortion which Bro.
Nave makes against us, which has been
used as a pretext for the removal of
publication, and spread over the cOun=
W in the Democratic paper with theOb
vious intent of injuring our business,
that we have any concern. That
charge we have answered!
Nave says he took from us the pub=
lication Of the CoUegiae solely becadse
the Herald offered to do it cheaper, and
at the same time he states that anoth-
er firm offered tOpubIish it for 800 less
than the HeraLd's proposal. Now why
in the name of goodness gracious don't
he give it to that other firm and save
this S1OOP Why is this other firm al
lowed to stand repining for the moral
and financial patronage of the cole
giGn when by trnsferring it thereto
500 might be saved to the students p
And if that other firm can publish the
D per for 500 less than the Herald is
now charging is not that establishment
charging, according to Nave's reason
ing, 500 above a fair profit2 We hope
our neighbor, taking a hint from this,
will Immediately come to terms and
reduce his price accordingly. He
ought by no means to charge the stu
dents 500 or even So above fair profit,
and we regret to hear this early testi-
mony from his patrons that he has
''stuck' them to the tune of 800 in his
bargain.
Before the removal Of the COUegian
to the HeruLd Office we informed Mr..
Nave that if not satisfied with our
price, he might himself assume the
publication of the paper at this Office,
paying his own cempositors, buying
his own paper and materials and pay
US what any three welI-informed per-
sons would say it would be worth for
the use of our Office, type. machinery,
&c. This would have enabled the gem
tleman to make a practical and satis-
factory test of the expense of publish
ing the paper, but the only reply we
ever received to this proposition was
the information that the publication
had been given to the Herald.