The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-05-27
THE PRINTING LAW

lesire to have our put III anu hl"ho"
few remarks. The Editor has, IN
fact, taken up an important SUBJECT
one which was opened by a cores
oondent of the Democrat some
since, but from strange
never was needed and has
been permitted to slumber so long in
criminal neglect and silence. MAT
tie Democrat has to say is from no
personal or vindictive motives, but
merely in defence Of right and the
plain teachings of law, radical, home
made and self-protective law. No
one doubts, no one can deny, that the
law was expressly passed for the sole
benefit and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF radl-
calism, to crush and starve tRe Con-
servative press of the State and build
up a radical one all over the State IN
it's stead, and all at the expense OF
the conservative people of Louisiana.
This law gives liberal, very ibe-
raj and self-sustaining price to Its
appointees, and at the same time
fixes what shall constitute the prices,
the measurement and even the size
of the type, and in all conscience the
beneticiaries should be content to fol-
low it and to demand pay fairly in ac-
cordance, Has this been done? We
assert positively that from the first
number of the Gazette, the Official
organ, to last Saturdays issue, these
charges for judicial advertisements,
as marked at the bottom OF them
have averaged over twenty per cent
more than the rightful and lega
charge or measurement, and the las
= sentence of the manager of the New
t Orleans Republican, in his letter, al
o published In the Caucasian, puts /
n down plainly and any one can nov
: understand it, and see how the Law
+ has been eyaded, miscOnstrued am
T converted into nice money maxim;
- machine. In iustide to the presen
+ management of the Gazette, we WI
d saw that when the Editor took charg
% he found that wrong measurement IL
~ aupurated and a fixture, and that a
Il lowance must be made for his follow
is ing in the footsteps Of his illustrlou
RI predecessors. and we are not wltho,
I'd confident hopes that he will give
his mature reflection and mend the'
errors, which are only those ofwror
W, and sharp measurement. His ma
g, ner of measuring with his lead cut
On the length of ten lines of solid agat
IT. as printed in the New Orleans K
n publican, when placed across his a
on vertisements in BREWER and long p
alr mer, may be the same space, but n
nd the same space in acords, and there
ga is where he errs and makes his
ed gains and overrides the law. VIII
20 in BREWER, count thirteen lines for
he square of ten lines of agate, and
he teen lines when in long primer, a
"a then you have legal and fair me-
out urement, and all alike get their du
er- To be plain and to the point, we v
ut, single out few of your judicial
oc- vertisements as published, measul
IT,, and charged in your last issue, q
Of mark down where you err or ov
the charge: In the one of Joseph Il
re and Co. VS.. Mrs. NJ. Calvit, for tn
Or insertions you charge $500. whel
tie should only be $500; in the Est
nen of w. G.. James you charge Slo'
ion when it should only be $1,000; ant
we the Estate of Winn you make
les, cisely the same overcharge. Here
ion three advertisements where the le
lily charge is only $4,000, your bill ft
he'd ND $4,000, a clear overcharge Of t
teen dollars, or thirty. three and
third per cent. more than the Law
lows you,
In conclusion we sincerely Il
10 never more to be forced to allud'
T. this subject, and that the old on
the Gazette will read well the
o. give it the benefit Of his good j
=. ment, throw to the four wind
- Heaven that sharp lead, come q
~ to the legal and right measurer
- and count. make all who are force
Wv. advertise in his journal pay
my NY down, and may he reap the full I
y III fits of the law enacted for all
' and true radicals, for to the vi
wi III belong the spoils,
NC FAMILY JARS. The once n
. vi and money bloated radical FAM