The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-07-10
A just Complaint.

Tie Vicksburg Commercial Her.
AID 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 for 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. IL every county where
this has been done in direct opposi-
tiOu to popular sentiment. With.
out exception, where work of this
character is ordered by the Legisla-
ture, it has been ordered directly
from some establishment in tho
State, or If let ont to the lowest
bidder, it is always stipulated that
the bidder must live in the State.
From very many county Offices the
work is sent oft, when it could be
done just as well or better at home
and just as cheaply. But even if 10
should cost little more here, home
institutions should have the prefer.
ence. 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 some interest OF their own, send
Oft their work for the people to
apply the remedy. We know of
Instances where petty little pres
ents, of one sort or another, were
considered sufficient Incentives
for n county official to send oil
work.
We hope tie press of the Stata
will stand up tor it's rights and the
justice the people are willing TO ac-
cord it. 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 re-nomi-
nations to such officers.
In this connection, it may be we'll
to reproduce q resolution adopted
by the Mississippi Press Associa-
ton, in 1882. The resolution was
reported by a special committee of
nlne:
ResOlred, 1t it is the duty OF every
officc-holder in the State to give
his work, patronage and influence
to the 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 support of
the people of the State who sends
any OF his work or patronage out
of his county or State.
The published proceedings OF
nearly every board OF supervisors
in this State show frequent and
some times large allowances to pub.
fishing houses in Nashville, ST.
Louis aud elsewhere, for printing
and binding that should be done in
offices within this State. 1t has
been so much the custom to give
orders for blanks and blank books
to the bland and polite aud persua-
sive gentlemen who travel for out
side establishments, that our Off
cials do not think of the material
aid they are diverting from tue 10
cal press. We believe, with the
Commercial Herald, that public SEN
tIment is in favor of sustaining
home establishments in this apprO-
pirate way. Most of the blanks
used by pnblic officers can be print
ed in creditable style at the county
seat; and there are at least two
book -binderies in Mississippi tully
prepared to make any kind of
blank book required by any public
officer, county or State, in rs good
style, and about as cheap as they
can be obtained elsewhere. If the
press of the State will stand by its
declaration in 1882, the cause Of
complaint so pointedly stated by
our contemporary " i'll DO gradually
but surely removed.-ClariOH.