, 1874-04-04
THE GOVERNMENT PRlNTlNG.oPRICE.
Ignorant and Exlrayagant Practices
Therein.
Expose by IN Old Enployo o. tho
Establishment.


EXPOSE Oy an Old Imployc o. tno
Establishment,
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WARRINGTON March II, 1874.
To tEe Editor Of 7Ad Chicago 1Taoans;
sin; "datn wf'oa truAy auo wei! OF tno
great expenditure OF money IN support OF 'no
doVornmoht Ifntihe-oNAce; ous' ho' oc'u6a
printer, ho has only potiotrated tue oruBt,--has
givou yo,,r roadcrs but faint glimpse OF tho In
torlor workings OF this mammoth fraud. Fol-
top yeara have boou {. eilont witnoss to tho ig.
noi"nt allo oAtlasaBaht p1Aes'coe =. sn'o oosao
lishment: and tho knowledge have gained
needs only to be put to tho test to lind what
hero say perfectly reliable.
T,,r M,uvrn.r" pn,vnp,n.
m,. H'hnea ,
>, me oupoflhtonaoht hae aseortoa, petolo Inc
Printing Committee Of tho House, TINT he Ind
charged tho Congressional printing loss than cost
flor whnt roaaon mn ono l,nowa un1oaa Y woa Tn
~, ~ .a e,"po'uouo 'in"o( "Aa nua aaaoue
1no aenclohey ~ oVorehar6lng tho departmental
work. Now. In order 10 show you that this Ia
not 10, lot us 500 what work ho did Tor Cpngro1s
'AN '''' s1a IA. rso n,or ron NJ M n,ar.
,,, Sl4 tsn FACE FOR os,oll FACES.
Ills report Tor tile year ending Sept. 20, 1878,
states that 83,011 pages Of 1nattor woro set up,
which t1GEO
cd.-all eontjnu ae74 .oaa, Nav. tafa n ntonor-
Nnn ~ sa7 mn ~. 1,o,,. s.a.,s1 '',., psop
s.ou W So''ouo 1o' no"' n'a.efl"i putcnaaeo,
repairs, etc., IN this timo, and prorortioAof
portionate sums being, respectively, about e3o,-
600 md st3 600. alt Of which ho omttea to add,
a.a ~ ~ ill.,. -. .a.,.1 s.a. co., ooa 1'
W. HA. s..1S WV no'"'' 'oo' "ao s9Ao'o'o'-"
little over sl4 per pasc, OF about 81 IA per copy.
Whom we tako into confederation tho important
fact that at loast ono-third Ut t1oso copies wero
reprints upon typo tIlat WAS noyer eot up but
onco, and therefore properly chargoablo for only
preAs-worl, papor, md binding, but which wo
lind charged In Lis report for co1nnosition yec-
when We conBider that not moro than one.third
OF tloao copies evor received auy binding except
stitching, and tint oyory copy cost al,2l,
whotler one pago Or Thousand, whether priut.
beon worked aud tho cost OF composition alroady
charged to tho Government or 1lot,--will 1t not
be patent to ayory practical book-publsher md
printer in tho country tl.at this work has cost
principle Of charging il IN attcmpt to blind tho
eyes OF tho Committee?
ExrENs1yE' IGNORANCE.
Now lot us see what good printer would have
ultion aud rnqking-,p into pagoB, roady for tho
pross, Of theac 60, oil pages. A careful survey
OF gil this work shows thas, il tho copy-royiser
ltau done hts duty. and tho taDnlated copy had
beon carefully cast, and the makot-up bud been
wording with IN ,oyo to economy, Ct least 100
pages IN overy thousand Of thcso OIL pages
might hayo bcen snvcd,-amountlug to G000
pngos, or 4B4 ,0OQl 10 maiso this fact plain, let
us further SEQ how these 5000 ,pagoa
wore n9ed!ossly printed. ana thls as4, ,ooo thrown
AWAY: Many signatures Of sixteen pages might
have beon compressed into eight by leaving out
unnecessary blank many tubular pages, wlich
o;tend into tug hundreds 10 some volumes, and
Wllcn occupy t1e ohtfo SURFACE OF tWo pages,
broadcast, could, according to common sonse md
tho rutos of.printtng, ny easily hnvo been mnde
into ono. These facts the work itself will Worthy,
showing an amount Of ignorance and carcless-
noas unparalleled in the history Of printing in
this or any other country.
Lot lib dip again into this inverse principle"
and sec whether there should not be another
"fnvcrse subject II upon which the system will
aPry to esfs1 advantage than it will n tho case
w. COST OF cEssus-nEronT, 1870.
90,025 copios, comprising 2,452 pages, Of the
Census. Report for 1870, Has 9l2o So II, nearly
iy dollars per page and little oper four dollars
0a0,uc0 Guns in nonpareil type, and coat for COM
position, at 60 centa per 1910 ems, about 30 424.
We will allow 29, i24 for composition; fs10 900 for
folding; a16,ooo for binding (Which ia probably
too much by ono-thlrd. ns many Of these vol
umos were only simply stitched). AMI $50, 900 for
tue paper; aud We find that at This high esti-
Matc, tno WoIA WoulN cosI Dut Slu4.424,-a nt-
ferenco Of 310,4iG.70, which has gono to "in-
verse g" Hono invisible principle of short-oharg-
Ing somewhere else.
THIRTEEN MILES or BRASS Ru1El
Another WhHtafulnoHH, so startling III to make
old Bon franklin rise from Ills grave were he
to it, is the way they "snip " and alash
away at brass rule in this cstabliahmont Thir-
teen miles OF it % wore purchased: for tho year
enting Sept: W, 1879. An economical Superin"
tendent would not have used 80 much in cen-
tury, for ho would have had 1t cut into labor
saving lengths at first, without waste, and With
out shears. The sheara in this establishments
waste every year ut leass acyon milea OF this
cutting tho rl1lo with them.
,., T'i1RrY~Two TONS or NEW TYPE.
At tue commencemont ,oT1 OF tho year which onds
sept. W lSi4, there were thlrty"two tons Of now
type purchased, for which cash WIS paid. How
much discount, Mr. Editor, do the tyPe.doaters
allow you wien you pay cash DOWN. Hero 1B
another conjecture Of an Inversion !" which tho