The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1879-07-26
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UAdes the caption Of ssThat Donation, -
+, the Star gives US more soup or transparent
Cruel ou the appropriation made by the
County Court for the publication Of the
| financial exhibit Of the county - an adyer'
tisement. Our ootempcrary lsbors hard %
make an argument in favor of its unjust re-
n,srks made last week, but it Is not TO be
pittied. Instead OF worrying its brains to
further persist in wrong it hastily com
mitted, it should have come ont boldly and
admitted its error; the task would have been
easier and the conscience lighter. In the
first place. it Is nos necessary for us to say that
it is mot the spirit which contends Tor econo-
my in public expenditures which causes the
Star's grumblings: any one oil common sense
will readily see this to be true; proof is fur
aished in the complaint made that the
County Court did not give .'other papers an
opportunity of making bid for printing
AMI, then the Plaiadealer furnished an ex.
ample which the Star might rightly copy
after hen it acknowledged it would have
taken the advertisement and he $25 if they
had been offered that paper. There should
be honesty in arghment rs well rs in any
thing elias, and the PlaindeaLer was ut least
honest III ths main point at issue.
That the Star would have taken the ad-
vertisement fur S., we have never doubted.
That paper has published an advertisement
for nothing, perhaps more times than once;
at any rate, it did publish the Fourth Of
July advertisement two weeks after the
Fourth OF July had passed, and probably for
the purpose Ut economy in type-setting,
Certainly, under such circumstances, and
with these facts beyond dispute, it is No
wonder that the Star could afford TO publish
the exhibit fJr $3, since il would thereby gel
that amount for the spacs it for two week,
| at least considered US worth nothing.
| As to the statement of the Standard that
| the exhibit of Multnomah county has moi
| been published for several years, we care
| nothing; but for the benefit of the Star and
standard we will simply ask both TO refer te
| the files OF the Daily OregOaian Of last year.
| Il will require but little ti,ne-and less time
to find proof Of what we stated in this con.
| nection with regard to Jackson county. The
| Sentinel and Times of week before last aud
| last week botn published the exhibit of that
! county as an advertisement, and rs those
| papers exchange With all the Douglas conn
/ ~ RdpcESt slac 0sUF chn III . aOW AAAOt1Cnf "a
| turn, to the files and find that we are correct
beyond doubt
| IL matters not whether the Star denies oil
not that air. Cook sanctioned the appropria-
tion. MIR. Cook il able to speak for himself.
! and we are willing for him to do 20.
! But is not the Star firing into Democrats
as well US Republicans when it makes the
! statement that the leading article of last
week, in this paper, was paid for by the ap'
propriationf That article said no more in
| iavor Of the County Board than of Messrs
| Cook, Hogan, sheridan, Wright and
Strange It looks as though the Star is ol
the opinion that these very efficient officer,
are either very parsimonious, or that they
woald steal $25 from the county to buy o
newspaper notice with. Nobody win believe
she Star in this much, and if it continues Il
/ put this construction upon the acts OF the
Board. it will but send forth something nj
one will believe. and in the end meet with
| the reward of unfair criticism. And we fee
it unnecessary to defend either of the Off
cials named; they are too well known tu the
people of Douglas county as honorable gem
tlemen for Us TO waste space in repeating
| what every one is convinced OF.
| As to the question, whether the Board
did right or wrong, it is easily answered.
In the first plAcs the members of the Boart
are presumed to be sensible men. This ad
| mitted, then it must be acknowledged tina
they had the right TO Judge for themselves
1t they thought that the INDEPENDENT wa
the right paper in which the advertise men
| should appear, they were disinterestet
| judges as to the merits of the three papers
| 30 far as general circulation is concerned
and if they thought the publication of tn
advertisement in the Star would be worti
nothing, their action in the premises mus
be taken as the evidence of disinterested
witnesses in court of Justice is taken. am
fairness demands it should not be disputed
| If their evidence in this matter has mad
TIE Star publishers ''sore in spirit and veal
in flesh" they would show better judgment
were they to keep the matter to themselves