Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1871-03-17
COUNTY PRINTING.
LFrom De Faye.se o0unty HeraId

From the Fayette County Herald.l
The County Treasurer's receipts will
be printed in Columbus this year, as
usual. We desire the public to under
stand that we have all the facilities for
doing that kind of work and can execute
It for the same price as charged in Col
umbus and make a reasonable profit.
We feel that common justice entities us
TO say this much as the fact that the work
mas been contracted for outside the coun-
ty might seem to imply that we have not
the facilities for doing it.-DsAaVaHe
Gazette.
We are among those who believe it
the best policy for individuals and for
County officers to patronize home indus
try and home institutions, especially
when the products of home industry are
in quality equal to those produced
abroad or even if they should not be
quite as good or quite as cheap, the way
10 secure their production in your town,
is 10 encourage your own mechanics
and workmen by giving them your pat
ronage, thus enabling and stimulating
them to a Iaudable rivalry with manu-
facturers or mechanics in neighbOring
towns or cities. Suppose the citizens Of
Delaware or any other town should all
take it into their heads that they could
get their goods and their mechanical
wares llttle cheaper and liftle better
at Columbus than in Delaware, for in
stance, and go to Columbus to purchase
them. What would be the encourage
ment for the mechanics to remain in
Delaware with the idea of making a liv-
ing at their trades in that town? Would
not the inducements be greater to estab-
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Now we know of number of County
Printing offices where the Treasurer's
blanks or the Assessors s blanks or any
other blanks necessary to be used in any
of the county offices can be printed as
well and as cheaply as they can in Col
umbus or any other city in Ohio.-And
we know this to be true as regards the
capacity and skill in the Delaware Ga
zette office. Why, then, take blank work
from home
In these same counties where the
county officers 60 from home to get
their blanks printed, if there is a hanky
Job to. be executed, they never think Of
going from home to get that done. 1t a
| kka1sky notice is desired to be published
IN the papers in which the neighborhood
or the county officers are inserted, they
are sure to call on the county papers to
do it, ''t1ee gratis for nothing" If the
County Treasurer of Delaware county or
the County Commissioners wish a little
| political favor, they expect the Delaware
! Gazette to be at their service. Finally,
when election time comes around, the
candidates of the party expect that our
| 6abeS- will support and our Editors vote
ior 0zf7- candidates. They do not expect
to get their votes from their business
friends in Columbus.
We are not opposed to competition in
| business, but we suggest to the citizens
of any county town whether It IS not
better for all concerned in the county
to have that competition at home, In
our own town. Now we know that a
Job printing Office in the city, where an
agent is sent out through thirty or forty
or even dozen counties for the purpose
of picking up blank work that must be
had in every county, if he succeeds in
getting the work for a dozen counties,
can furnish the blanks very cheap, be
cause when the forms are put up for one
county, they will answer for all (excepi
the mere change of the name of the
county, and the whole stricken off iT
this way but the blanks even in this
way are not in most cases furnished any
the home establishment could have the
whole work and even if they did cost a
little more, this fact in favor of home
work should be taken into consideration
Your publishers interest, If you patron
ize him as you should, is blended with
that of your town and your county he
works for its interest, its growth and 1t:
honor he pays taxes for the support o
your town and your county government
and the money you pay him IS expend
,, ed in your own town and county ane
goes into the hands of half the mer
chants and mechanics in your town be
fore it leaves your county. Not so witt
=, the cash you pay publishers and me
chanics abroad, who have no other in
terest in your town and county than (
] get the cash you pay them for thei
2 goods or work the money does no
7 circulate in your town or county an!
e more, and pays but the one debt so IA
i as your county is concerned, wherea
. the cash paid out at home may, within
T four weeks, by paying from one to an
I other at home, pay dozen debts.
{ This is the way we look upon tn
' duties and the advantages of patronizinl
}, home industry and home institutions
i over that of patronizing and building u
e institutions, abroad, where the patron
. lied have no interest in the prosperity c
!. your own mechanics and business me
y or the growth and prosperity of you
s county town.