The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-09

WE admire enterprise in business and
are inclined to give due credit 10 thosr
who manifest this commendable trait OF
character, hut there is such n thing as
OVERRIDING the business, and we cannot
but think the State Printer carries this
virtue 90 an extreme, when he sends out
circulars to county beat officers bidding
tor the little printing in blanks necessa
ry for their respective Offices, when it Is
well known there Is not n county office
ia the State, that do not keep such blanks
in stnc'; for the accommodation Of local
officers. If the letting ont Of the public
printing to the lowest bidder il imprac
ticlhlc, rs ThE CLARION would no doubt
insist, it secus to US equally Impartial
| cable that GuE CLARION should sell
/ Justice Of the Peace Of Chiekasaw com
u blanks, when We have two good Job
Offices of our own.
We have hal occasion heretofore to
Tasp Gus friends ol the Stlte Organ, fOi
l interfering with M little fellows, and we
| had hoped We wOpld not have it to do
/ again. but ii the Dig machine at Jack
/ snn will not be content with the fat
| thing it has all to itself, we will be forced
to contend for the few crumbs left to
I the small fry, and VIC shall not fail to
d. it, whenever the necessity arises
ChicSasIw Messenger.
Oar friend of tn, Messenger certainly
I h1s taken occasion" to criticise TBE
CLARioN's methods of conducting its
business. Because its proprietor haF-
pens to b. State Printer, he must not
invite or execute any other class of
work! We have been printing and adver-
Using all kinds of legal blanks for tie
past twenty years, and have made a
specially Of blanks for justices of tie
poIce. We prepare, or have the forms
prepared according to the statute, and
have always furnished specimens to our
press brethren on application, that. they
may print for their local customers.
We are no: aware that we have ever sent
a quirc of Legal blanks to Chickasaw
county, nor do we expect to send any
there, or to any other county, where tie
local Offices keep supplied We hold,
and have repeatedly SO stated, that the
l,cal Offices are entitled to the local
business in the way of blanks aud other
printing, but where the local Offices DO
not keepan assortment on hand, we invite
them or their customers to send their
orders to us instead of sending them to
Nashville or 81. Louis, where every legal
blank used in Mississippi is steretotyped
and kept in stock, and offered at prices
with which no office in Mississippi could
possibly compete. We publish the prices
Of our blanks, and we happen to know
several other Offices who furnish them
for a good deal less. The State printing
occupies n part of our force for several
months in each year, but il is not such
big machine" that We must be ex-
eluded from the privilege exercised by
every Office in the State Of inviting all
work VIC NAV be able to execute, at Just
and reasonable prices, especially when
much Of that work would otherwise
leave the State. We took occasion, last
summer, to sugges; to candidates in sew
eral counties, who wanted election
tickets printed at this Office, that it
would DC appropriate to give such work |
to their home offices. If our coutem-
Porary must have occasion to 'rasp"
TIE CLARION, it should seek something /
more tangible on which to baso its
structures; bat we think VIC have had
experience enough in our own business
to be able to manage it without such aid
and comfort IS is dispensed to us an
nually by the chickasaw Messenger.