Mexico weekly ledger., 1881-09-01

or, still worse, advertisements that have been
taken simply to tfll up, - and at prices ruinous
to any business conducted upon safe ard just
business principles. We have one price for all
work, and would scorn to take advantage of any
mans ignorance of the printing business
charging HIM enough for work to make mp for
what wetlost some other man. Away with
such chariatanism!---Me Intelligencer.
Our attention has been called TO
the above as being meant for US.
We have no fight with the Intelligen-
GER. We beat Them at their own
game ignoring. They wrote and
demanded an apology forthwith. We
ignored their letter. They blow
around on the streets about what
they are going to do. and it all ends
in wind. Let them attend to their
own news( ?)paper; we can manage
the LEDGER. Since they have broach-
ed the subject, and if they mean the
above for US, we will make a remark
or two just for fun. The writer of
the above extract was ignorant as an
unborn babe-ignorant, in fact, as
unborn twins, or else knowingly mis-
represents facts. For instance, they
claim to have Zone price for all"
Why then do they have their paper
full of patent foreign advertisements
at about one-half what they charge
home patrons? They have to-day
patent foreign advertisements which
were offered to the LEDGER at better
prices than they get for them, and
we would not take the work. "Why?"
Simply because we can get all the
advertisements We want at home, and
if we are going to make any reduction
it will be to home patrons and not to
advertising agents and patent medi-
cine men who live In the East. Talk
about "filling up!'' Compare the
LEDGER with your old cadaver, and
sec which paper has the cheap adver-
tisments! You have several columns
of cheap foreign advertisements to
"fill up" your space with-the LED
GER has not column. We know
what is the matter with you-the
LEDGER is monthly, weekly, daily.
getting away with you. You tried
to ignore; you have talked about us
on the street; you have insinuated
against u.s. in your ''coffin winding
sheet;' you actually turned over the
corpse of your old weekly and had a
still-born patent sided daily-all to
no purpose. Now you get mad and
make insinuations about some one
taking advantage. Why don't you
come out and say when and where !?
If you want to make any fight just
come on, and if we don't tale un-
fold that will make your hair stand
On end and ''Rome how'll we
will eat a, book agent blood raw.
We are now going to make state
ment that we can back: The Mexico
Weekly LEDGER has to-day a larger
number of subscribers than the weekly
"fog-horn We have in our weekly
now more and better paying adver-
tisements than the weekly ''fog- horn.
Our Fair Daily has at least seven
times the circulation, and contains
more advertisements than the daily
"fog-horn" ever did or ever will
contain. The Mexico Daily and
Weekly LEDGER is a paying, live
paper. 1t has made friends and
money every day since it has been
under its present management. 1t
don't have to be ''held up" 1t is
not sick and eaten up with morbid
Jealousy. We have no fight to make
with any one. We are busy attending
to our own business, but when insin-
uations are thrown out that we have
been taking advantage of some one
we would love to be allowed the
same privilege. If you want to get
your cadaverous old rattle boned
organ into a row, just name your
field of battle if not, just 60 On blow
ing life into it through a quill and in
jecting food into 1t by injections.
We have all we can do to attend to
our legitimate business, which has
grown enormously within even the
last three months. At the same time
we propose to keep the LEDGER in it's
correct light before the people in
spite of spasmodic and ghostly spo-
radio inslnuations The logic of the
Mexico Intelligencer resembles the
''peace of God," in that it passeth un-
derstanding. Further than this de-
ponent sayeth not.