Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-12
PUBLIC PRINTING WITH A FEW
Words PERSONAL.


ton.
As an abstract question there may be some
force in the argument, but the GLOBE desires
to consider it with a local application. The
GLOBE has entered upon the third year of its
existence, and from the day of its birth to the
present time it has encountered the desperate
hostility of the Pioneer Press. As the two
papers occupy the same field, with the same
| Geographic privileges, rivalry is natural, but
| the competition the GLOBE is encountering is
of an unusual variety. At the present time
| city calling upon GLOBE subscribers offering
| them months subscription free to that paper
| if they will stop their subscription to the
GLOBE. In other instances a years subscrip-
| ton at half rates or even less will
| be offered GLOBE subscribers, on con-
| dition of change of papers. most
| persistent attempt is made TO keep the GLOBE
from general circulation on the railroad trains,
and in the postofices in the State every dis
elimination possible is resorted t.. friend
writing US from ST. Cloud IN the Sth says:
find that the p. p. is distributed at the
postofhce here as soon as the mail comes in,
| distributed A Republican subscriber said he
! got the p. p. in his box as be went to dinner
| and had to wait until he came back for the
GLOBE.
This is sample only and we could enumer-
ate by the column the desperate efforts resort
ID 20 in order 0 cripple and defeat the estsb-
fishing of saooud morning newspaper in St,
Paul.
/ "he printing onslaught j, only an incident.
and were We alone concerned we should not
| turn aside to notice the viper which seeks to
| obstruct our pathway. The present managers
OF the Pioneer Press have never been able to
brook competition with equanimity. Years
ago when they published the Press alone vio-
lent war sprang up between them and the Pio-
''eer The city council took advantage of the sup
posed opportunity and for time secured their
printing for almost nothing-in fact portion
of it was literally and absolutely done for
nothing. The result was what usually fol-
lows. After year of this ruinous business
the papers pooled their issues" and MIR. F.
Driscou became the city printer, the ''lo,rest
bid" being 66 cents per square each and every
insertion OF an advertisement. The result
small sum to fifteen thousand dollars Der
annum. This Immaculate concern which now
displays such zeal In behalf of the public was
the head and front of the "lo,vest bidder com.
petition which secured these exorbitant figures
The city council however, bad the sagacity and
integrity to break up this combination. and
they did it by declining to place Themselves
at the mercy of any combination by adver-
Using for bids. They called to their aid
disinterested experts and ascertainipg what
was fair price, they made their own figures
and elected printer, conditioned upon his
accepting the prices offered. The result was
that where under the Press lowest bidder sys-
TEN the city paid 60 cents per square for
| every insertion of an advertisement, including
council proceedings, they now pay 40 cents per
square for the first insertion of an advertise
ment and 70 cents per square for additional
insertions and but % cents for
council proceedings. Under the Press
lowest bidder system the type used
IN the newspaper for council proceedings was
inserted in the book and full rates of compost
ton charged, while under the present plan the
type is used for the book without cent being
charged Tor composition. The result is that
with as much or perhaps more printing being
done than when our immaculate contemporary
| manipulated the lowest bidder plan, the cost is
| less than five thousand dollars per year, where
| it cost fifteen thousand dollars or more before.
1t is no exaggeration to say that since the
| city council, six years ago, broke up the ring
! formed by the present proprietors of the
Pioneer Press at least fifty thousand dollars has
been saved to the city in the printing. The
present proprietor of the GLOBE, might without
ostentation. claim some share in this saving. as
he originally accepted the work at the reduced
price though he was threatened with the direst
vengeance by his present immaculate critics if
he persisted in accepting the work ut rate be-
low the ring" figure.
The GLOBE comedies, however, that probably
for single year the city could save some
money on its printing. The desire of the
Pioneer Press to cripple the business of the
GLOBE would doubtless lead them to accept the
work for the time, almost gIatuitously,
with the usual resultswh follows such
illegitimate competition of pooling issues
after ascertaining that they could not destroy
their competitor. Their interest in the public
welfare extends simply to desire to destroy
the GLOBE aud nothing more. 1t happens.
however, that the GLOBE came to stay and
while unfair and Legitimate warfare may
make our progress less rapid than otherwise, its
revolutions continue unceasing-never ending.
Having said this much on the general prin-
ciple under discussion, the GLOBE adds word
personal. The morning papers of city are
the ones which advertise a city abroad. There
are two such sheets printed in st. Paul. the one
devoted to the interests of the city where it ia
published and relying on the prosperity of that
city and tue State at large for its prosperity.
The other, assuming that because its sheet is
printed in st. Paul, it will secure the support
of this city, and that it will gain additional
nutriment from Minneapolis by lying in It's
favor. Hence in its recent glorifca.ion it false
" placed both population and commerce of
Minneapolis in excess of st. Paul. As that
sheet goes fof day by day, it adverti.es an
2thsr city more than it does st. Paul, while the
GLOBE stands alone as distinctive st. Paul in
stitution. The labor bill OF the GLOBE alone
averages over one hundred dollars per day for
the s65 days in the year. and not less than $50 of
the population of st. Paul are supported by its
business If it was possible tor the Pioneer Press