, 1872-09-12
VICIOUS ADoLEscENcE.-The youthful

put on "long togs," constantly shows
an insane ambition to assail the editor
Of this paper, for no other apparent rea-
son than to magnify the Importance of
his position by provoking notice from
an old editor. This freak of childish
vanity might be tolerated if lie did not
exhibit with it " Hoodium" propensi-
ty for malicious lying and sympathy
with public thieves manifestly at vari-
ance with the paternal injunction
Keep your hands from picking and
stealing. and your tongue from evil
speaking"
Upon our exposition of An infamous
robbery of the taxpayers in this county
bv collusion between the tax collectors
and the printer of the Lntelligencer, this
young jackanapes in "jacket-and-trous-
ers" impertinently volunteers false wit
ness for the thieves and malicious as
sauft upon us of the same character
He SAYS we ran "rat" printing estab-
lishment in San Francisco; are "rat-
ting now in the publishing business;
advertising at 'Chinamen's wages, )"
and "because fellow publisher gets a
mite of patronage for which he can
charge rates--just ones too-shows such
an intense jealousy as to bring upon
himself the contempt of not only print
ers but of everybody else and withal,
denounces us as dangerous man in
the community. stirring up strife, and
An enemy of the craft.
There Is not semblance Of truth in
any of the above charges. We never.
anywhere or on any occasion employed
journeymen printers at less than the
standard rates; never underbid any 9TH
er printer for job-except where the
law required public printing to be let to
the lowest bidder-or did any act which
is characterized by the craft as rafting, :"
but have always deprecated such prac-
tees, as We have the too common prac-
tice of setting up inexperienced and ir-
responsible fledglings in the newspaper
business, to be burden to their friends
or exc out a miserable existence by
forced contributions from the public
treasurer, or as the subsidized organs Of
unscrupulous political rings.
There is not a newspaper published
in Washington Territory the advertising
in which is charged at more uniform
and invariable rates than those in the
DISPATCH. There is not an advertise
ment in this paper for which we receive
. less rate than one hundred and twenty
dollars year per column, with an ad-
vance for less space and time, and in no
instance have we solicited an advertise
ment at less price, or sought business
to the detriment of any other publisher.
During the past six months we have re-
jected over three columns of advertise
ments sent us by agents, because they
did not come up to our uniform rates,
and have seen all of the same advertise
ments published in other papers upon
the Sound-principally in the Intelligen-
cer-at the rates which we rejected
Until this controversy we have never al
luded to this matter, because we do not
propose to interfere with the business
affairs of our neighbors except where
that business is carried on for public
theft and robbery.
The young man of the Argus very
well knows that he falsifes the facts
when he says or intimates that we as
sailed the InteLigencer for charging regu-
lar or just rates for advertising the tax
sales. The charges which we denounc-
cd were two dollars and fifty cents des-
cription, averaging from two to three
lines in large type, for three publica-
tions. The highest advertised rates of
the Inteuigencer, or any other paper in
the Territory, are two dollars per square
OF twelve lines for the first insertion and
one dollar for each subsequent insertion,
and only one-half of these rates are
usually charged. Atthese highest rates,
a square containing six descriptions
would have amounted to four dollars;
BY the usual rates charged for legal ad-
vertising, to two dollars for the three
weeks publication. Any paper upon
Puget Sound would have published this
advertisement at the latter rates. The
charge of the InteAigencer was fifteen
dollars per square of six descriptions
an overcharge of eleven dollars to four
upon its highest advertised rates, and
thirteen dollars to two upon its usual
rates for legal advertising. This Aagrant
swindle upon the taxpayers, was, in
the delinquent school tax, levied to col
lect small special tax amounting in a
majority of cases to less than thirty
cents each, and of over two hundred de-
linquents, probably not one in ten had
any knowledge of it until they were put
In for this cost by manifest collision be-
tween the collector and the printer
The Sher1d's delinquent tax sale, charg-
ed at the same rates for advertising.
amounted to nearly, or quite, twice as
much; the two aggregating not far from