The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-02-22
EDITOR
PnEACHuNG VS.. PRACTICE.


Economy" in last weeks Coal Gazette,
calls attention to the difference in the a.
mounts paid by the County Commissioners
for printing in the years 1896 and 1878. We
happen to be able TO enlighten Economy"
little on this point, and more especially as
he seems to think IL was entirely unneces-
s,ry to publish the County Statement in the
CARBoS ADVOCATE, regardless of the fact
that it has larger bona .fde circulation in
side Of the county than any other paper
published the report oftwo ofthe county au
ditors to the contrary notwthstanding-one
Of whom acknowledged to us that he knew
nothing of the circulation Of the several pa
pcrs more than two of the Mauch Chunk
publishers had told him. To the point, in
1866 we printed the Union Flag (now the
Gazette and Josephus Lynn the Democrat,
aud the Statement was published in both
papers-no other paper at that time being
printed in the county; the price charged
for its publication was $3.50 per square; last
year, the Statement was published in Lynn's
Democrat and the Gazette, and their charge
was $2lO; in 1874 each OF the two papers
(Gagette and Denocrat) charged $40 each /;
in 1875, Lynn 1852, Boyle $l4s; in 1876,
each of them charged Sl26; in 1875 the two
papers charged nearly $50 more than the
three get in 1879. So much for " Econ
omy's" economy. This year the State
inrnt was ordered to be published in three
papers, viz: THE CARBON ADVOCATE, Carbon
County Democrat and Coal Gazette, the Com
missioners fixing the price at Sl.jO a square,
costing a total of $256.5O for its publication
for four consecutive weeks in three papers,
while last year (ls7s) the total cost for two
rarer Gazette and Democracy was $4,000,
When " Economy" decided to appear in the
coll m Is of the Coal Gazette TO preach up
economy in the matter of official printing
he evidently got into the wrong pulpit. We
have not preached any lengthy sermons on
economy, but we have practiced it for seve-
raj years; two years ago we reduced the
price of county printing and advertising
from 25 10 so per cent. below the then rates
charged by the Mauch Chunk papers, but
whenever it was proposed to divide and give
us a share of the county patronage, the Off
cials were told by the Mauch Chunk pub
fishers that we had not the material with
which to do the work, our paper had no cir
culation, &c. They had a bonanza and
used every effort to retain its possession
economy in county printing being never
thought Of The ADVOCATE, at that time
was small in size, but we printed the toholc
of it, and by so doing had about as much
actual space to devote to home matters as
had the patent-outside barn door sheets
OF our contemporaries, while in the matter oi
material, we are as well supplied as either
of them, in proof of which we can say that
1ce have ncUer had to borrow line Of mdtte'
for the columns Of the ADVOCATE since the day
ofits first issue, nor do we expect to do so. Il
is not economy in this matter that is stirring
up the Gazette he feels the effect of the
economical rates offered by us and the Car
bon County Democrat, and knows that th'
honest and capable gentlemen now in powe
have determined to avail themselves of ou
lower rates for doing the public advertising
This is where the shoe pinches. In conclu
sio 1, for the information of Economy" W
will state that we have it on good authorit,
that the Gazette mans bill for publishing
the Statement this year was trimmed dow!
several dollars, by the Commissioners, in or
der to make it tally with the charge mad
b.. the ADVOCATE; again proving that we ar
practicing instead ofmerely preaching econo
my. The real trouble is, the Commissioner
have determined to resist exorbitant charge
for advertising and printing as well as in al
other matters, and it don't suit the GuscH,
Economy is decidedly blue subject for th
columns Of that paper.