The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-23

THE Waco EXAMINER is a "rat pa.
per" Barlow has no occasion to be
proud of this statement, as he well
kno VS. the rat printer is creature
devoid of all manhood.-Fort Worth
ArtizaD. fnif
If the Artizan means by the term
"rat paperr to say that the EXAMINER
is non-union and independent, 1t Is
just exactly right. We are not in the
union, aud for the following among
other reasons: The ,priuier's union
fixes the scale of prices, and thisscale
bears no comparison with the ability
to pay. The union printers must get
forty cents a thousand ems, and have
their money every week whether the
publisher is able TO collect il or not.
Ifthcy don't get the money the strike
is ordered. IL is true that within the
past seven or eight years the papers
Of Waco have barely made living
many Of them have lost money-and
all of them are losers at times. There
Is no bonanza In the publishing busi-
ness anywhere in Texas. Now, we
have as good typography on the Ex-
AMINER as any paper in Texas, we
pay tbirty-fiye cents thousand ems,
and II we have other obligations 10
meet, or If COLLECTIONS are hard, our
men are willing TO wait uutil the col
lections on the first of the month give
us the means to pay. If the Artizan
can buy as good a coat from Mr.,
Smith at $40 as he can from Mr.. Jones
at SIS, why should he be compelled
TO go to Mr.. Jones for his coat? II
there is any rule by which this can be
worked out we would like TO see Il
stated, and like 1t very much
indeed. Then, the union says to
the publisher: we have determined
that so and so shall not work any
longer in this office, because the union
has turned him out for conduct I'M
worthy, etc; or a printer may be a
drunkard, or behave disgracefnlly
but the publisher must not discharge
him because he is in good standing
in the union. Or, again, the foreman
assistant foreman, or some one else
connected with the mechanical de
partment is offensive to the union
He or they must be discharged, nc
matter how vitality necessary he or
they may be to the enterprise. Again
q publisher must tske but on,
apprentice to every ten men. Again
the veriest drunken tramp who come,
along is eligible for work II he dis
Plays "card.y and it often happens
that isrge offices are wholly at th,
mercy of force, no one of which hal
been in the town three months, anl
which has no sort of sympathy eithei
with the publisher, his enterprise o.
the community.
These are some of the objections
we have to the union, but our ariicl,
would grow to too great a lcngtl
were we to state Them all. But W,
have few words of earnest dissen
from the above statement that th,
frat printer IL creature devoid o
all manhood That is a very falls,
statement, indeed. For the life of US
we cannot see how the posses
sion of a card. from the uniol
makes man printer, nor how tho
absence of il from his pocket, robs 1
printer Of all his manhood. We have
worked non union printers often, as
well as union men, and we do not hes
itate TO say that the ExAMIsER force
isnot only as good as any we have
ever worked, but as good as is to be
found In any Office of its size in Amer
lea. We can challenge ON speed, as
well as upon artistic effects, and NO
cleaner proof sheets than ours are
are read in any Office in the state. Our
men are sober, reliable, intelligent and
genteel. The fact is, we defy any one
to lind moregentlemanly set OF men
in manner, dress or appearance in
any commercial establishment or
other business in the state. by work
ing six days in the week, they make
regularly from $i5 to $25 week.
They live as well as any, wear as good
clothes, and have all the accessories
Of pleasant living. No sir, the nom
union men compare very fayofabiy
indeed with the union men.
Anyhow, we are perfectly satisfied,
they are, and SO is the public, aud
whose business isit, we would like TO
know, II they are union, or non
union