Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-20
Largest Circulation in the District
Reading Matter on Every Page.
WASHINGTON CITY:
SAIL RDAY -.---......January 70, ls7s.
About Prices.

About Prices
In the discussion upon certain bills for adver-
Using ted upon by the house of delegates last
evening, Mr.. Hardness Is represented by the
Idtrlot as saying that ''the prices charged were
exOTbitant, and in excess Of the regular adver-
Using rates." and that paper states edItorially
that 1.-the allowances for TIE STAR, republican
and Sunday Morning Chrosicls are large, as COM
pared with other presses Leaving the other
journals concerned to speak for themselves we
have to say, in the most explicit and unqualified
manner, that these statements so far as they
refer OF may be supposed to refer to The SrAR.
are entirely destitute Of truth, a. their authors
must have known, or could have known had
they cared 20 inform themselves before speak
ing.
80 far from being Excessive" the prices
charged by THE STAR are not only reasonable
and Just, but Ior, considering its very wide cir
culation; and, moreover, they are precisely what
would have been charged 10 Mr.. Hardness or
any other private individual for the same ser
vice.
Nor - the amount passed for this paper
Charge, as compared with other presses, A.
stated hE the Patriot ON the other hand. il is
small. both absolutely and relatively:-less. we
believe, than the sum charged by any daily
paper for the same advertising, and absurdly
small when compared with the prices charged
by our iaul;-fnding contemporary for the same
service,-suppOsing that it could perform the
same service, or One-tenth of it. Publicity is
the sole measure OF value in cases of this kind:
and, tested by this standard, the charges of THE
STAR might well have been very much higher
than they were made. But, relying on the
business community for our support, we prefer
10 charge price which will be remuneratiye TO
ourselves and at the same time reasonable and
just TO our customers, and this price we charge
to all.
of the propriety of limiting the pubIi-
cation of Official advertisements to two or
three leading papers, we do not now feel
called upon to speak. Our sole object at this
time Is to place The STAR right before the pub
lie. In its legitimate business patronage IL has
possession of vastly more value than any gov
eminent favOrs can be; and while it will use all
proper means to retain the one, it cannot afford
and does not propose to sacrifice either that or
its own self-respect to secure the other
Coo
The Coming Man" OF Wall street is one
Henry Smith, formerly OF the firm of Smith.
Gould & Martin, but who withdrew sometime
ago and has since been operating in his own
name. He is described as young man, "ener-
getc andfOreseeisg," and a bold, fearless specu-
lator, who, having once calculated the chances.
persisteHtly pushes forward till success is at
tanned. He spends his whole time in Wall street
dealing almost exclusively in railroad shares
sometimes carrying millions of dollars worth
~ Is predicted of him that his immense railroad
interests will yCtnecessitate his becoming man.
ager OF some one of the great railroad cOrpora-
TONS Vanderbilt, Could and other "Pripres-
recognize in him ga foeman worthy of their
steel, and PrOphssy that he will become "Dic-
tafor' OF thestreet. Smith, it seems. has already
large following Of operators in Wall street. as
has every new man possessing audacity, Origi-
nslity and-succeSs. 1t does not indicate q
wholesome state OF public sentiment when the
dictatorship of Wall street is looked to bv so
large number of our people as the highest
position the country can afford; but the fact isso
though Lot one dollar is earned or added to the
wealth of the country by these operators in
stocks, who expend their energy and sagacity in
Wall street gambling.
mn
We do not feel called upon 10 notice all the
misrepresentation of the Patriot in regard to
the printing appropriation of the Legislature
tahd which, 10y the way, that paper was ca refu
lot to make until its own heavy bill for adyer-
Using had been passed upon. but it is but ius-
tee 10 others to refer 10 one or two OF its nm
truths That paper SAYS, for instance, that this
appropriation all goes to advertising not TO
book job, journal, and the like printing" On
The contrary, the larger part OF the appropriation
Tor The Daily Chronicle and the National Era Is for
Just this class of printing and not for advertising
Nor Is II true that the cost of the lob printing
has not all been rendered and that ssit far ex-
ceeds the enormous sum given Tor newspaper
advertising" This appropriation bill enums-
rates job printing as well as advertising done
ior the District, both paid and unpaid For
instance, the section of the bill which includes
the Job printing with miscellaneous advertising.
and which the Patriot puts down solely TO adver.
Using. concludes thus: &" Which approved hills
amount in the aggregat- to s5I ,OO9s3, ON ae.
count of which there has been already paid the
sum OF 81 ,ss3.65, there be appropriated ST.
l-o.ls, payable out of the general fund.- This
includes expenditure since February 2lst when
the DIS trict government went into operation.
IL should be added that a large portion of IN.
advertising In question was forced upon the
District government by the injunction suits of
the Patriot party
As stated elsewhere, we do not propose here to
enter upon the question OF restricting the adyer-
Using to two or three daily papers, but it NAV
he remarked that the amount of advertising
requisite in setting the new form OF District
government in operation is probably more
than will be needed for the next twenty wears
The Governor probably felt it his duty to the
PEOPLE, when everything was being entered upon
az moro, 10 give tne Wlaest publicity 10 the new
laws and regulations by which they were to be
governed, and to the measures to be submitted
TO them for decision at the polls.
The Pennsylvania legislature can't decide
exactly what to do with Rothermers picture of
the battle of Gettysburg, painted at cost to
the state Of $4,000. The house has resolved
that IL shall be placed in the capitol at Harris
burg. but the senate had come to no conclusion
he, adj I'D
being in favor of Harrisburg, and others of
Philadelphia. One gentleman said sit might
be well TO examine whether the picture is in a
condition to display anywhere, since it is ru-
mored that il was injured at Chicago. II il is
to 90 finally TO Philadelphia, let il go; but let it
come 10 the capitol first. If tn most people are
to see 1t, let II gO-tO New YOrk-not up to one
end of Philadelphia, or to the way station at
that place, where New York passengers stop for