The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-11-07


here should be mass meeting called,
n the parishes where it has not been
lone, and delegates Immediately se-
ected to attend the State Convention.
We hope to see full Convention. Wei
1rge Immediately tho selection OF del
egates.
THE RADICAL PRINTING LAWS.
We have no disposition to s'worry"
the editor of the Homer Had, nor have
we the slightest idea we could convince
him Of the proscriptive, profligate ten
dency of the Radical purity Of this State;
but we shall certainly conclude he has
q poor opinion Of his cause, If he is un-
able to give no better answers to the
questions propounded by the TELE.
GRAPH to the editor of the Iliad than
the answers found In that paper Of the
18th ult.
Neither Kellogg, Warmoth nor
Claiborne had to do with the fact
that the Had alone could publish the
list Of delinquents; but the Iliad, in
the endeavor to make distinction be-
tween its discarded leader, Warmoth,
and It's present leader, Kellogg, only
enforces the idea we sought to convey,
that the Radicals do prescribe in the
very humblest walks of life-those OF
the journeyman-the mechanics who
oppose them. A man Is stark crazy
who will undertake to defend, even ON
humane grounds, the present printing
laws OF the State. AS we intinated, as
we'll tell an individual he must have
this lawyer to defend his suit in court,
as tell him you must publish the sale
Of your property ordered by tho court
In that newspeper; ~ as we'll say,
this lawyer must open your succession,
as to say that publisher b bound to]
publish the notice Of application for
misunderstanding. And the newspa-
Per man is either insane, or q cormosm&
who win invoke the exercise of a power
80 we'll calculated to work slavery to
the Press, 90 this law Of the Radicals
does. A newspaper Office IL simply .
workshops worishop for both brain
and muscle. II isa usurpation, a satire,
q travesty on republican ideas, to enact
law which exalts one workshop and
shuts up another. It Is no excuse what
ever to say the Radicals control only
"ofacial printing" The sale of our
materials, the sale of a horse, sheep,
COW, or an acre Of land by an officer, is
official, because directed by the courts !;
the advertisement Of that sale must also
be official that Is by the officer but
there exists no right in the legislature
to say in what paper that sale shall be
advertised. If there does, that body
can name the man who shall appraise
my property, sign my name, be my
carpenter, make my coffin, do my haul
ing, ETC.; for where is the difference
between printing offices, shops, wagon
yards, and any other place Of mcchani-
cal skill and industry?
The Itiad Is otherwise unfortunate.
The old law Of advertising it states to
be one dollar n square, in gold; tho
now law at one dollar n square, in cur
rency. How unfi,ir to state 1t in this
way! The old law fixed that price for
the first insertion only, but for each
subsequent insertion only 80 cents per
square; while the new (lsadical) law
keeps up the dollar per square for each
and every insertion. Thus, the di1fe-
renee: For the first publication the
rates arc the same for each subsequent
publication the old rate was so cents
the Radical rate is 800! The distinc-
ton in currency is worthless-a gold
dollar secured no more labor for us in
1853 than alpaper dollar will now.
But the Iiiad only reaches the climax
of unfairness-of absolute journalistic
discourtesy-when it quotes from let
tor published in this paper, and pur-
posely omits stating everything except
that the language is an "item" from
the OUACHITA TELEGRAPH. For this
species of correctness i'll an old, we'll
schooled editor, we can have no appre-