, 1873-12-12
THE CITY PRINTING AGAIN.

Tho Common Council laro 1t III 1Helr power 20
aayo tho Taxpayers Of Chfcugo at least s1b,00o
annually III tho single item Of the city printing.
tho proceedings. notices, and ordl"
nances Of tho Common Council and the various |
departments Of Tho City Government have been
published at an annuat oxpouae OF over $4,000 |
in two newspapers, Quo, an E1glsh newspaper,
know as tue Corporation paper, aud tho other, |
the German paper having tho largest clrculn-
ton, This bis been done in supposed compll-
auco with the requirements Of the City Charter.
This provides that the Common Council hlall
designate one public newspaper printed in Chi
cago Us the Corporation newspaper, In which
the city printing shall be done. Tho sa1no mat
tor, it aso provides, shall be printed. at the samo
price, in the German newspaper having tho
largest circulation. 4 careful reading OF these
provisions will show that there is no reasou Why
tho Corporation newspaper and the most widely
circulated German newspaper should not bo one
and tho same. The Council may, II they choose,
name the Gdats-Zeitt.ng "a tho Corporation
newspaper to print tho public nlatter in
English, We have mado this suggestion
before and wc repeat 1t again In oil sobornoss.
It's effect would DO to do away with the duplicate
aud doubly- expensive publication of tho city
printing. II tho staats- Zeitn"g wore made tho
Corporation newspaper, one-half tic cost OF tile
public printing would DO saved. THIS method
Of saving 1000 annually to the City Treasury
| Ia practicable, legal, aud sonaible. Everything
oe gcueral interest in the proceedings OF any
dopartment Of tho City Government reaches the
| u,h1ic ut ouce through the news columnB Of the
duly papors the proceedings are published Ill
full In pamphlet form every week; tue official
| publication iu newspapers IL, therefore, merely
formal, and any noaus aro proper to lessen thia
oxpon6e il they arc legal. Tue Sfaats-z -ze!Etsn9
IL q German paper, but the oharser docs not
require that tho Corporation newspaper bo pub
liyhod iu English exclusively; neither does it
stimulate that tho &nats-Zeit,4ng shall print the
proceedings in German at al. Houco, tho pub
t iication, ut AL at,pual Swing Of $4,000, o
tl,o city printing in English, In tho sfaats
Zcf!,.ng, IL full compliance WITH tht
law, and a,swers all o!hor purposes as we'll
Such action by tho Common Council would sub
joct them to no hostility they need fear. lilo.
, yoro elected despite tho opposition of ever
English newspaper IN Chicago, and they noe'
not now buy Of those they hava beaten. II tho
pursue a contrary courso, aua not only oontlnu
. tho duplicate publication Of the city printing
but jpcl oaso tlo remuneration for 1t, the popula
b feeling ,sll ho vury different 1t has been sue
gcsted. latoly, that tle pay for this useless ae'
a yico be raised to forty fifty, or sixty thonsan
r dollurs, in tho aggregato. any such aotlo
. could not full to be regarded as corrupt nso I
I, tho pnb}io funds. Public Interest demands tho
/. IL anr change Is made, It shonld be III tt
y direction Of ocouonay. ANY Increase OF Il
" compensation would 10 virtually robbery
ID Tie Public Treasury, aud would excite just l
]. dignation.