The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1885-07-10
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Points Well Taken.
T0pmcnd Trmch0n, July !.

a number OF Eastern paper houses send
their agents into Montana TO solicit the trade
OF the newspaper and Job printing offices of
the Territory, which il all legitimate. But
these same agents, after selling paper stock
30 the local offices, ge round and try to take
away the trade of their customers by solicit
ing the printing work from the business men
and the county officers, which Is not legiti-
mate, and should be put stop TO If possible.
For instance, in this county, the Pioneer
Press Co, OF st. Paul, has sold US, and we
believe the HuSbdndnldn, bills Of paper stock,
and at the same time has tried 10 underbid
both offices In prices for job work. And we
are sorry TO say that some Of our county Off
Gals have been getting their stationery
printed by this company, a practice we can
hardly approve Of as n matter of right and
Justice. The newspaper offices are taxed for
their printing material and paper stock on
hand, just the same AZ other businesses.
These taxes go into the county treasury and
help TO pay the expenses Of the county. The
newspapers directly contribute to the wealth
Of the county, and indirectly by sho wing up
TO the outside world the advantages and re-
sources Of the county, do more to build it up
and advance its interests than any other bus
mess enterprise, and If there is any county
patronage In their line they are Justly enti-
tiled 10 receive IL at the hands of the public
whose interests they thus serve, rather than
foreign concerns which have no interests in
the OoInty other than to make money out of
1T There are, OF course, some classes of
work w1iach the local offices cannot do, from
lack of facilities, but such work as they can
do TO satisfaction rightfully belongs TO them,
rs taxpayers and workers for the general
good We do not believe our county officials
have looked at the matter In this light, and
feel sure that II they will, no more orders
for office stationery will 60 abroad. This is
a subject which came up before the recent
meeting of the Press Association, and every
member was most emphatic In his condem-
nation of the practice of these outside paper
houses. We give our brethren of the Mon
tana press the name of one paper house
which Is INDUCING In this practice, and trnst
nhat in future the Pioneer Press Co, of St.
'establ isbment in this Territory. We have
been dealing with them for the past eight
months but they have received the last order
they will ever get from us, and we expect to
DE sustained in this action by the entire fra
ternity of Montana Pass them along
If the above statement of the practices of
the Pioneer Press Co., is correct, they are
not entitled TO the patronage of Montana
newspapers Some years ago a lot of St.
Paul drummers sold job lots of goods to
Montana merchants and then retailed out
their wares IN the same field The press
stood in with the merchants and denounced
the method as an outrage, which IL was To
hClt job work In the field where that stock
Is expected to be used, is precisely parable.
case. We believe the Pioneer Press folks
have done this before in Montana We have
patroniZed them and found them pleasant
people to do business with but unless the
Company shall autho ritatively repudiate
such action by its representati yes and give
assurance 10 will not be repeated, we will
buy no more from them. The remarks of
the TruneLdnt rs to patronizing local offices
are to the point and are worthy ccnsidera-
ton by merchants and officers. Merchants
would consider 1t very unfair If printers sent
abroad for their household supplies, yet
many Of them send East for their printed
stationery, because in some cases 1t comes n
little cheaper. Live and Let Live. Give
home merchants and home industries the
preference. An Eastern Office working boys
at So or So a week can do work cheaper than
IA Montana office paying skilled printers
$3.50 to S4J0 per day, but these men spend
their money to live in Montana, and the
Eastern boys do not. A creditable newspa-
per helps every business where IL Is located.
There should be reciprocity in these things.
This office does not 40 on the streets and
snlidIt job work or advertising. We rely on
the intelligence and disposition of our bust
ness men, we expect TO make profit, but
not enough to Justify personal solicitation.
Our work and advertising IL AZ staple as the
goods of the merchant, and our place of bus
iness is known. The merchant would feel 1t
a humiliation If he had to hawk his wares
ION the streets to sell them, lest otherwise
ahe people should send abroad for them.
The points Of the Trdnchdnt are we'll taken.