The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-05-09
The city Printing,
HALLAs, TtNAA, May 7, lSI0
To the Edllnr OF Tho Hnrnlh.

DALLAS, TFNAh, May z, 1870
To the Editor OF the Herald:
The evening paper has made grand a
flourish OF trulnpots, because il has Sc,
cured the city printing, not with view
OF beneiiting itself but rs It says. TO do
the city aseryico, by doing its work for
nothing II Is well that such AN nm.
warranted assumption W. this should be
revealed, and the truth made known TO
the people, We do not question tho
motives of the City Council in awarding
II the contract bUtthatthey were grossly
Ignorant as to what such bid should
be, is plainly manifested, because their
dense lack of knowledge Of the printing
business and their yagucness OF lis de.
tails Stripped Of all ycrbiage, the Com.
mercial bid was, to do the city printing
ut the same price per thousand ems that
1t pays for its composition Even those
who are not printers can see, alta glance,
that 1t is 80 imperfect that no body of
men in the world ought to entertain il
even for II moment 1t has no circum.
ference, nor neither has it length,
breadth or depth 1t does not state,
which Is very essential requisite how
much its editor is paying for compost.
ton, nor in what kind Of type the ordi.
nanccs, etc. will be published, nor
whether the deprecated 'orderS" which
he pays his compositors with will be al.
lowed in favor of the city. Suppose
that Cutler was to came in ut the end
of the month or theyear, and claim that
he was paying torty-fve, or even sixty
cents per thousand for his composition,
and demand payment at those rates
what remedy would the city have
None because there is no definite con-
tract between Cutler and the city, as to
what he shall receive for either Job
work or advertisements, Those who
are aware how the present organ" got
away with city year before last, will not
be slow to believe that it will do it
again if it can. Many persons are not
acquainted with the different sizes of
type, but it will be sufficiently plain to
state that between burgois, BREWER and
nonpareil, there is within frac-
ton of four squares difference be-
tween them, in every thousand ems, in
favor of BREWER as against burgois and Of
nonpNreil rs against BREWER 1t was in
no wise violent presumption that the
Organ" will have its eye as widely open
to the main chance as it did far one
solid year when it set the ordinances
in BREWER loaded and charged for them
as nonpareil solid, thus 'yanking' the
city out of four squares on every eight |
or, in other words, double the
stipulated price. Even this was no in.
amount, and an investi-
eating committee might develop a good
deal to the interest of the city by over
hauling it. Prohting by its easiness in
pulling the wool over the eyes of the
city government in that instance, it has
put in II bid which it claims is very low,
and vet, while it is filled with all kinds
of holes and traps and glittering gener-
alities, it does not assure the Council or
the taxpayers that it will print the or
dinances, etc, in nonpariel or smaller
type, which is recognized the world over
as the only kind to set legal advertise
ments in, but has left u hole wide open
to do as it did before Fit prints them
in BREWER and measures them as non
pareil it will not only wrong the com
positor, which it claims to pay wages,
but the city, and instead of getting the
printing cheap, the city will pay dearly
for it more so than if it paid regular
figures. As a citizen and taxpayer |
would ask the City Fathers to either
destroy the present contract or tasten it
up so the city will not only know what
it is doing but how much and what it
is paying Tor. LEXrAR'