Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-01-30
Sole Agent - san Franchise.
Abolishins the Office of State Printer

Abolishins the Office of State Printer.
It is really strange that u wise
Legislators should think Of dispensing
with An Office the holder Of which
Is about the only person in the employ
Of the State who earns his compensa-
ton by rendering = full equivalent in
labor. There has always seemed TO
be . jealousy Of . State Printers pro-
hts in all legislative bodies; and vet.
with one or tw" exceptions i'm CAlifor-
mia, the State Printer has never made
much out of the Office. Because y few
persons have contrived to wheedle
State Legislatures into paving ex-
travagsntly for the public printing,
it seems necessary that every honest
printer should ever after lie subject to
. sort of police surveillance. Accord
ingly. we have An extrs officer now.
called q printing expert" whose
duty it is to see that the ~rascally
printers do not swindle the State by
making more than q bare living out
Of the Office of State Printer: and it
costs more to compensate the expert"
than it would to pay extravagant
charges of the poor devil who does
the printing for the State. The whole
thing proceeds on the principle that
every printer who executes the work
Of the State is to be presumed a viii
lain till he proves that he is an honest
nautilus reversing the we'll known
rule Of the common law. And now a
member OF the Assembly, Mr.. Stod-
dard, of misunderstanding that the
Legislature has Just extended the
term Of the office to four yeas so that
tho State Printer need not become
\ bankrupt by his outlay for his ma
terial. and other expenses OF u two
years lease ofthe office, during which
his profits would not alance the said
outlay-this Assemblvman wishes to
abolish the office altogether. and to
provide that the printing shall be
done by contract with the lowest bid
der; as though a job that is cheaply
done could ever be well done, and as
though a swindle did not as often ac-
company the cheapening of compen-
sation for a piece of work as . fair
charge for a fair days labor. Our
opinion is, that this crowding OF the
artisans. the result of whose labor is
the enlightenment OF the nations, has
proceeded far enough. How often is
a full days wages obtained by our
Regulators for a half days work?
How many adjournments over till
Monday. skipping Saturday aitoge-
Their, occur during the session? A
Legislative expert" is very much
needed, to keep a time-book, in which
the actual time occupied by our law
makers in the service of the State
should be recorded, and their COM
%pensation determined accordingly.
REDUCTION IN TELEGRAPH RATES.
The secret Of the recent reduction in
telegraph rates is already out. 1t
seems there is \ combination OF all
the other telegraph lines, to compete
actively with the Western Union. the
Company for the telegraph business
of the country. And as. in order to
do this. the rates must be made lower
than those of the Western Union.
Executive Committee Of tn 1t comp.
nv instructed the President, VIM. Or
ton, to lower the rates throughout the
country, which has accordingly been
done. thus heading off the 9 combi-
nation.
THE STATUE OF HORACE GREELEY.