Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-12-31
THE MANUFACTURERS WHO SPONGE
UPON THE PRESS.

Some days since the MORNING APPEAL had
occasion to refer with becoming irony of ex-
preston to certain Almanac maker who has
the effrontery 20 attempt to deal with the
press by such small brides as lead pencils and
sparse copies of his works This was what
the doctors would call a sporadic case-inas-
,nuch as it was isolatel by it's effort at lib
erality and (theoreticaD unselfshness. The
bucolical ohronologist did make showing of
seeming TO do the liberal and free handed
thing. He whe is willing to pay his printer,
even if he liquidates his indebtedness in
poultry or other barter, is better than he who
tries to seduce the printer into helping him
by advertisements and then pay him, in
money for some of his wares The biggest
and most persistent of these bummers 1--WE
use this vnlgarsm because it seems so com
prehensive and so readily understo"d) are the
manufacturers, and of all the manufacturers,
the most pressing, urgent and ''cheeky are
che manufacturers of organs and sewing ma
chimes. eve offer you, Gays one of their
confidence men, "the following ADVERTISE
snent, cash to the amount of S25 in part pay
,nent for the organ advertised, leaving a cash
balance Of only $50 on the superb instru
ment." Here follows great big ugly electro
type of melodeon-one of those drowsy
things which is as much worse and more dis
mai than an accordeoh as an ACCORDION is
worse than a Scotch bag pipe. The stereo-
type is full two columns wide, and for any
publisher to give it place in his columns Is
70 compound felony, for not only is a so
called parlor- organ nuisance and a bore,
hut it is a cheat, fraud and humbug. We
have left standing orders at our lodgings to
shoot any nan who is caught in the act of
bringing one into the neighborhood And
yet here is swindling and cozening rogue
who burdens the mails with propositions
which are not only meant to defIaud the
printer and to craze the printer family and
neighbors. We are glad 70 know that it is
me purpose of the next Legislature to
pass a bill offering bounty to such citi
sens as shall bring into the courts OF
,ur local magistrates the scalps Of one
IT more of these organic swindlers, or
in lieu Of the scalps, the mangled remains
Of one of their hideous instruments. As
% sewing machines, the heartless pirates
who make them are iapuient enough to ask
the printer to pay one half the selling price
thereof for a specimen OF their wares and, as
III the case of the m6lodooEs, advertise out
The balance Among other terms is that the
publisher must furnish one copy OF his paper
10 the beggarly manufacturer, free. Before
is is proposition of this character, l., this
instance the price of the machine is set at
$50 The printer is asked to pay SO and
inter into contract to advertise the com
pound of old iron and pot metal TO the amount |
If the remainder. Here then is Il rogue who !
attempted 70 steal Elias Howe's patent and |
failing in that, to palm upon the market an
inferior Contrivance-a dead 81 indie on every |
sesmstress who buys one. Like any other
shyster and quack he PUSHES to the press and !
tempts tue conductors thereof to compound a
felony by advertising his brittle and gilded
sham as something worth having. 1t is high !
aud exposed their game. Under the guse of
legitimacy aud honesty these harpies are
cheating the public with their trumpery
. organs and sewing machines more merc-
essly and systematically than the bunko
sharps, the thimble riggers Or the three card
monte men Here and there is stage robber
As general thing this class of scamp is a
touch above the garroter and the foot PAD.
The profession has refrigerated since the high
toned days of Waterman, Harris < Co., but
still it is not very unlike that of the poacher
aud srnuggler. But low down as the business
Of mail and stage robbery has fallen in these
degenerate days, it is infinitely more manly
aEd nearer honest calling than these pIra-
Cies done III the name o: music and the hearth :
side industry of sowing-the tosome labor s
IT poor womanknd. Moreover, we have
never known Il stage robber or French monte
sharp or policy dealer to cheat the printer,
o. try to; while these organists and sewing
machine fellows go to work with elaboration {
and malice forethought to despoil the poor d
typo, not only of his money but of his time !
and space. Ii we had ever been guilty of !
any of these thicving advertise
nents re would turn States evidence; and
t by chance shonId get possession Of ]
we promise to make bonfire of it