The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-17
A Just Complaint.

The Vicksburg Commercial Herald thus
enters protest against the custom, too
common, of sending printing outside the
State, that could and should be done by
home Offices:
There is Just cause of complaint on
the part of the press in this State, that
work that could be done in this State BY
printing concerns. IS sent off. In every
county where this has been done we
think it has been done in direct oppOsi-
ton to popular sentiment Without
exception, where work of this character
is ordered by the Legislature, it has been
ordered directly from some establish
ment in the State, or if let out to the
lowest bidder, 1t is always stipulated
that the bidder must live in the State
From very many county offices the work
Is sent of, when IL could be done Just as
well or better at home and Just as cheap
ly. But even if it should cost little
more here, home institutions should
have the preference. The people know
what the State press Is worth TO the
State, and it is only necessary to point
out to them, when county officers, for
/
work, for the people to apply the remedy.
We know of instances where petty little
| presents, of one sort or another, were
considered sufficient Incentives for a
/ county official to send off work.
We hope the press Of the state Will
/ stand up for its rights and the justice
/ the people are willing to accord 1t. Of
every instance where work has been
/ sent off, that any establishment in the
State could do as well, we hope mention
will be made, so that the people may
have an opportunity to refuse renomlna
tons to such offices.
In this connection, it may be well t.
reproduce a resolution adopted by thr
Mississippi Press Association, in 1882
The resolution was reported by a specia
committee of nine;
Resoiced, That it Is the duty of ever
office holder in the State to give hi
work, patronage and influence to tn,
press of his county, and it is the opinion
Of the Mississippi Press Association
that no county or State officer is entitled
or should expect to receive the supror
Of the people of the State who send
any of his work or patronage out of hi
county or State.
The published proceedings of nearl.
every board of supervisors in this Stat
show frequent and sometimes larg
t allowances to publishing houses i
Nashville, St Louis and elsewhere, 70
printing and binding that should b
} done in offices within this State. 1t ha
been so much the custom to give order
: for blanks and blank books to the blan
and polite and persuasive gentleme
who travel for outside establishment
, that our officials do not thinE of tn
material aid they are thus divertin
, from the local press. We believe, wit
the Commerciat Herald, that public sci
a timent is in favor of sustaining HON
establishments in this appropriate wa,
r Most of the blanks used by publ
officers can be printed in creditabl
style at the county seat; and there al
at least two book-binderies in Missi
? sippi fully prepared to make any kin
: of blank-book required by any publ
a officer, County or State in as good styl
n and about as cheap as they can be Of
/, tanned elsewhere. If the press of Il
: State will stand by its declaration
1882, the cause of complaint 50 poin
! edly stated by our cotemporary will
gradually but surely removed.