The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-04-16
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by the following article:
The JOURNAL is now giving some free advel
Using to certain country papers, probably t
prove to some of its unwilling supporters whOL
1t has recently 'gOugcd " and who WINGED III
der the infection that its terms are not niue
higher than those of some other country papers
AS its own terms for transient advertising an
those of the Courier do not appear i'll the lst
we will supply the omission:
JOURNAL.
One Dollar per square for each insertion.
Courier.
Fifty Cents per square for the first insertion
and Twenty-Five Cents for each subsequen
insertion.
Now II we remember well, the JOURNAL sol
EMMY promised. when it secured the cOntrac
for doing all the legal and judicial advertising
i'll the parish, that its advertising rates would
not be raised. 1t charged only fifty cents pei
square then. 1t was asyery "fat take at those
rates, but after a while the JOURNAL concluded
to make it fatter, and, forgetting its promise
it added two lines to it's square and put the
price up to seVenty-iVe cents. This worked
pretty well for Il while, but the JOURNAL had
now got real greedy and wanted more so il
added two more lines to its square and said it
was worth a dollar!
And now it is trying to prove that it is very
reasonable, not at all greedy, and never gOu.
ges. The next thing will probably be an ar,
ticle intended to demonstrate that it is loostng
money every day and is only publishing those
judicial advertisements for the benefit Of our
poor, tax-ridden and mOnOpoly-Crushed people,
for whom 1t has so much sympathy.
Now if this article means anything, it
means that this paper charges one dol-
lar for publishing the same quantity of
matter-a ~squdre-that the Courier
charges fifty and twenty-five cents for.
AS the word square is not defined or
qualified, it CAL mean nothing else. If
the Courier had stated the difference
between its square and our square, as
we'll as the difference in the price, we
should have had nothing to say. The
reason why that was suppressed, we
leave for the public to imagine. With
the best means at hand, we went to re-
publishing some of the C0urier'S sales
and it's charges for the same. We could
not know how many squares the Courier
charged for, as we had nothing to show
us; but we could tell how many squares
there were in the C0mieT's sales &C
cording to u measure, and as the Cot
Tier had led the public to believe that
it's squares and ours are the same-the
difference being only in price-we were
bound under the circumstances, accord
ing to logic and common sense, to esti-
mate the amount of its charges from
the number of squares according to our
measure.
The Coarier's article means another
thing-that wehave doubled our harges.
The Courier has now put itself in q
dilemma-it is bound to admit that our
squares are double its own, that is, con-
tain twice the quantity of matter; or,
that it has chargedfo for tUO squares where
it should have charged for only one.
We will make this appear by the ar
ticle from the Courier, above published
by a card in last Saturdays Courier,
signed by Mr. Joel II. Sandoz; and by
the republication of the sale of the es-
tate of Eliakim Littell, from that paper.
And here we win state that we al
ways desired, and still desire, to get
along amicably with the Courier and its
managers. What we have to say in re-
gard to the Courier, is only done in self
defence. If its editor, whoever he may
be, will look over his files of this paper
he will see that several months have
since it has contained any allu-
sion even to his own. This was done in
the interest OF peace, with the nope that !
silence of this paper in regard to
the Courier would disarm it of its ran !
cor. The printing is the difficulty, of {
But we did not make the print !
ing law. We could have had the print
.ng under it several months before we {
lid get it. 1t was offered us; but we Z
stated that 70 long as no other paper I
was likely to get it, we preferred not to I
nave it. The opening or vacancy in :
luced Mr.. Tucker, the Internal Revenue t
Assessor, to bring materials for a print q
ng Office here, with the assurance that II
lfter the paper was started he could get g
he printing. Under these circumstan- I
we concluded to get it If we could.
took it, not to injure the Courier or 9.
other paper, but to prevent injury r;
0 us. We say to the Courier now, we :,
re willing to " forgive and forget AS
n earnest of ii, we refrain from retort- d
1g in any unkind language this week. s. S
'ur quarreling makes us no better, and d.
boUtd not be entertaining to the public. e.
t certainly does not make us appear
ny better to the outside world, and e
or own moral natures are not improved =.
y any such pastime. The following is es
II. Sandoz card, above alluded to 81 81
1d We publish it entire, in good faith na
nd Justice and hope the Courier will De
ate thatadollarforo one of oursquares-
. inch of nonpareil-is no more than tic
Ity cents for n Of its own squares ! !
hen the JOURNAL first came into exis- en-
nee and adopted the Comier,s price ~ I
fifty cents per square. For. since SUI
at time, we have reduced the size of lie
Q type and increased the size of the e. e.
.uare. People generally do not know ett
about printers squares; but ma
ey do know what an inch is. Our OBJ dc,
ct in making an inch a square was ct
give the public d measure that all RR.s s
uld understand and there is no prac- !
al difference between a square of Gin
ght lines BREWER at fifty cents, and ali ain
ch or twelve lines of nonpareil at one I'M
liar, any more than there is between n foG
% half cords Of wood at two dollars de
a fifty cents per half cord, and one aca
I'd of wood ut five dollars-they are me
actically the same thing. But here de
nard Per