The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-03
WOOD AND THE CITY PRINTING.

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QUIET WORD TO THE COLONEL AND HIS
sUN-wHY THE SUN SHOULD NOT PRINT
FOR THECITY.
Probably because the Sun suggested
Col. Wood for the Office Of mayor during
| the last canvass and insisted on making
him a candidate for the select council in
ward not entitled to elect member at the
late election, he has become the champion
and advocate Of his little luminary and
says he is resolved to give the city print
ing to that paper during the current mum
icipal year. Very WE'LL if the Cononel
can lead the council into his way of think
ing we shall not complain; but, before the
decision is made, we wish to briefly state
why The BULLETIN should receive the
city printing at a fair price and not be
compelled to enter into a contest of low
rates with the Sun So, here goes:
The city has adopted the policy Of en-.
couraging manufacturing establishments,
because they give employment to work
men and distribute money in Cairo among
retail dealers. To Mr.. Gamble the city
gave valuable privileges and the trustees
OF the property, valuable property. The
hub factory was Us much favored, and the
Box Factory and Eichoff Brothers had no
reason for complaint. The policy WAS not
q mistaken one, and, if the trustees had re.
fused to donate lots to encourage these en-.
terprises, Major Wood would have raised
his ebeneezer in an explosion OF indigna-
ton agains. Col. Taylor.
Now, we assert The BULLETIN is Il,
: much entitled to the encouragement of The
city as any other enterprise.
In the face ofthe most discouraging cir
cumstances THE BULLETIN has struggled
for years, and has never lost an opportu
nifty to advocate Cairo and her interests.
But, more than this, The BULLETIN has
and does now employ a greater number
Of workmen than most of the estsb lish-
ments Of the city, and pays out to en-
ployes every month between eleven and
fifteen hundred dollars cash for wages,
which, with the other expenditures of the
office, SO into the pockets Of our grocers
T dry-goods merchants, boot and shoe men
etc. THE BULLETIN is concern Cairo
has no right to decry, and if Col. Wood
and his co-laborers in the council and Ma.
jor Mum S office were to succeed in their
very sly attempts to break it down, Cairo
would be greater sufferer than we The
hub factory may prove failure, and tho
outside bsrbarians be none the wiser, bu:
the failure of THE BULLETIN would at
least create ripple on the cur rent Of pub.
lie offiairs
But, although we believe we might with
good showing of justice claim the right to
receive the encouragement Of the Cairo
public in the manner indicated, we ask no
such favor, and only claim we should be
allowed to do printing for the city at Il lair
price.
We might enforce this claim by calling
attention 10 the fact that The BuLLETIS
is the only paper printed in Cairo that
can legally publish the council proceed.
! ings and ordinances. The Paper, being
, weekly issue, cannot publish them, and
the Sun is not printed in Cairo. One
side of that sheet, and the only side con-
tanning reading matter, is printed at Belle.
vile. The side printed here contains n
few advertisements, and usually local
item or two, and is printed by man who
knows very little about the affairs Of the
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thing TO advance the interests of the city,
and rents the press on which he does the
printing from citizen of Union county.
The only strong ground he has for de-
manding the printing, is taat he is the
organ OF Col. John Wood and believes
that gentleman, who is fearfully uncertain
in his political way, to be really great
man