The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-16

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Ing for the city have been published at 4
ruinous loss to the printer. The price paid
monthly for the publication of the
proceedings would not pay for more than
one-tourth the actual cost of composition
leaving the question of space entirely out OF
sight. The contract under which they were
published in THE BULLETIN expired on the
Isl OF the present month, and on last Tues
day night THE BULLETIN and sun submit
ted new bids. Heretofore the bids have
been so much per month for publishing the
proceedings of the council. and ordinances
and advertisements ordered by the council
or by any one Of the officers of the CITY.
Under contract of this nature the space of
The BULLETIN was virtually at the disposal
OF the council, or of any member Of il, who
had energy enough to rise in his place and
and move that so-and-so be printed with
the proceedings" Such motion ALWAYS
carried. The expense came out of the mock
cts Of the publisher, and the publication
added glory to the local statesman who was
DESTROYS of seeing himself and his produc-
tons in print. 1t was also at the mercy Of
any city officer with propensity to pro-
claim about things, or to issue pronuncia-
mentoes against hogs, dogs, or other brutes.
During one period of thirty days recently,
under this kind of a contract, we published
twenty columns of council proceedings
alone, receiving therefor not quite S., and
paying in actual cash for its composition
about S2,. The difference between these
sums was an actual cash loss which the
publisher had to pocket. In the bid We
submitted to the council on
Tuesday night we agreed to
publish the council proceedings and adyer.
Using Of the city at 50 much per line for
each insertion. This is the way such work
Is now performed in the leading cities Of
the country, and its manifest fairness must
at once strike the mind of the reader. The
council pays for Just what it gets TO a line
and the publisher receives his pay for just
what he does. It is an intelligent arrange
ment, economical 10 the city and fair to
the printer. The Council has it in It's
power TO publish just as much or Just as
little OF the proceedings as it deems proper,
or for that matter none at ALL The price
bid by The BULLETIN was two cents per
line bourgeois type,incojumns 49, plea ems
wide--a rate that will be pronounced reason
able by experts in the Publishing business
The bid Of the sun varies little
from that OF TIE BULLETIN; and under
either the council proceeding, if weelel OF
unnecessary matter, need not exceed $lj or
500 p.r month. The lid. scem 70 have
alarmed some Of the gentlemen who com.
no.. the c1v7cil and they have made state.
ments concerning the work which nroyo
that thew po,.ess very Little kpowlcd,e of
what !. paid for similar work in other cities
Il is possible. indeed. to publish them at
less rate. than those bid By THE BULLETIN
But there is such thing as retting it done
t3o cheap-'aying the proceeding, pub.
i.hrd in "a parcr seen by but few Of thc
taxpayers. and a. times when interest in the
proceedings will have waned or died out
altogether. The object o. publishing thcm.if
we understand il aright. IS I, H., the public
know Just what revenue is collected and
from what sources derived; how it is expcn.
dcd, and for what purposes: the inauoura-
ton and progress Of public work: new laws,
or changes IN old ones In general way