Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-23
IouRNaL1sM As A BUSINESS.


The winning of a suit for $36 by
the APPEAL against the county of
Ormsby was a victory for bushes
principle. It cost as much to bring
a suit as the money involved, but
had it cost ten times as much the
suit would have been brought all
the same. The suit, while nomi-
nally an affair of this Office, was on
behalf of the Nevada Press AssOci.
atien, and the Association furnished
the money to prosecute it. Ii nec-
essary, the Association was pre-
pared to take it to the highest court
in the State to establish what it
costs to advertise in leading news
paper. In every case where Board
of County Commissioners attempt
to cut down newspaper bills to
Cheap John rates similar suits will
be brought. The press of Nevada
has for years past been advocating
living wages for all classes Of peo-
pie who earn their living by their
own industry. The journals of
this State have insisted on 81 day
for miners and equally first-class
rates for mechanics, artisans and
skilled workmen, as we'll as COM
mon laborers Of all descriptions.
Should it not, therefore, be equally
SOLICITORS of its own pay for work
performed For several years past
the County Commissioners Of
Ormsby have made a persistent
fight against the press. They have
paid all classes Of services the rates
demanded, but when it comes to
newspapers they have farmed the
work out to cut-throat bidding I'M
til they were able to find parties
who would do it at less than actual
cost. Yet in a county campaign
the very papers which they have
ground down, they were glad to
have come to the fore and ma
terially assist in their election. A
few weeks ago the jury in the
Coomhs trial had to be boarded at
the county's expense. The Com
missioners asked the Ormsby
House to feed the jurors, witnesses,
etc, and send in its bill. It did
not ask the other hotels to enter
into competition or cheap two bit
restaurants to send in bids. The
bill of the Ormsby House was $3.50.
It was paid in full, although
no doubt there are second-class
eating houses in Carson who would
have fed the same men for S100 and
$50 might have been saved. The
price paid was the usual rates of a
first class hotel. A few days after
the bill was paid the county had a
register list to print and called for
bids. A bid of $3.50 for three
columns of advertising was accept
ed. As the APPEAL pays its print
ers, that amount of matter could
not have been put in type for the
amount paid for it. The AP-
PEAL bid was higher from the fact
that to have printed three columns
OF matter just SO much paying adj
yertising would have been dis
placed. Messrs. Jones and Cheney
of the old Board have always been
the most savage adherents of the
Cheap John policy with newspa-
pers. With the new Board Mr..
Jones works tooth and toe nail to
accomplish this result. The AP-
PEAL is not running cheap news
paper, nor will it take cheap adver-
Using. The circulat ton of the pa
per is larger than ever, its columns
are filed with cash advertisements,
and it is recognized by business
men in Carson as being worth SO
much money to them. No one who
advertises in the APPEAL pays any
more or less for the same space
than another. Our rates are based
upon the business, circulation and
prestige of the paper, and persons
who do not care to pay these rates
viii be obliged to look elsewhere.
This paper pays cash on demand
for ali it gets in Carson and all who
patronize us pay cash for what they
get. Our space is worth to us a:
much as Mason & Co.'S coffee
Harris Bros sugar. Muller !
Schmitt's tea, or John G. Fox's en-
velopes. Messrs. Jones and Cheney
backed by ex-District Attorney
Rarfine held that tho AppA,