Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-17

others can engage in the business as choose
to doso. There is no monopoly whatever,
and If the newspapers were not fairly and
honorably treated they would not be slow to
look elsewhere.
Instead of 12O there are $50 papers in the
State, and instead of $4,000 copies there
are over 100000 copies of the laws issued
and circulated. The statement that supple
ments to this amount can be printed for
$1,000 is too absurd lie to need contradic-
ton. The laws are delivered postage paid
within three weeks after the legislature ad-
Journs, and go to every man of intelligence
in the State, Gas they should) for there is no
man of intelligence who does not receive
some paper. There is no other way that
the laws can have general and prompt
circulation save through the news
papers. Compared with results, the
expense is trifing. The secretary of state
certifies to them, and the newspaper publ
cation is accepted by the courts as law until
the pamphlet edition is issued some weeks
and sometimes months later. There is no
other expenditure of public money which is
SO directly and promptly returned to the
people who pay the bills, and no other ex-
penditure where SO much is given for the
money expended.
10 those who insist that it is merely SOP
to the newspapers, we would reply that
while this is not true, if it was, the expendi-
he
doing so much to develop the State as the
newspapers? Take the counties without
newspapers, and who knows anything of
them, their soil, their advantages, etc. They
are almost as unknown as if located in
Africa. While this expenditure is not
gratulty to newspapers, on the contrary, the
service rendered is more than the compensa-
ton; if it were otherwise the expense would
be as legitimate as money given to promote
immigration or to build State university.
The publisher of the GLOBE is interested
In this matter, not because, in another branch
of his business, he supplies the supplements
or patent insides,' but because he feels
deep interest for and sympathy with the
struggling newspaper, which, especially on
our frontier, is bearing aloft the banner of
advancement and weekly inviting more
people to join us. He has made this state
ment at length, because he wishes to dis
abuse the minds of those who have been
falsely led to suppose that it is in any sense
an individual matter of his, instead of
general one applying to every newspaper in
the State. If he should die to-day the
situation would remain unchanged, and that
event could not properly produce an argu-
ment for or against the policy of publishing
the laws and paying the exceedingly close
figure now allowed by law.
Before the present law was in existence the
State paid $500 each to the Pioneer and to
the Press for publishing the laws and they
dragged them through period of three or
four months in their daily issues, in order to
compel people to take the papers to get the
laws. Bill Kings paper hopes to restore the
old regime and at the same time give blow
to every paper in the State. 1t is seeking to
build up monopoly and would be glad to
wipe every paper in the State out of existence.
1t never speaks of country paper save in de-
rlslon or contempt, and it now asks the legis-
lature to join in this unholy crusade. It even
seeks to make the question political. an effort
which ought not to have very material ef-
feet on Republican legislature when it is
considered that out of $50 papers in the
State but % are Democratic.
The GLOBE is happy and proud to stand
forth as the friend and advocate of the coun-
try paper without regard to politics. We do
this from no individual interests, but from
the general interest which ought to pervade
every citizen of Minnesota. Strike down
your newspaper and you strike down the
development of the State. Strike down your
newspaper and you strike down immigration.
Strike down your newspaper and you aim a
blow at intelligence. Strike down your
newspaper and you offer premium for TO-
norance and crime. Strike down your news
paper and you postpone until the next GEN
GRAFTON what you might see accomplished in
this. Advertise to the world that no more
newspapers are wanted in Minnesota, An
nounce that not only will no legitimate bust
ness be given them, but so far as legislation
can 60 they will be forbidden from obtain
ing business. You will then have struck q
blow for economy and receive the praises of
the newspaper, whose editor was once held in
SO high esteem as to receive Legislative in
Vltatlon to return from Her Majesty's do
minions to his native land.