The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1890-11-03
THE STATE PRINTING JOB.

Tomorrow and the heartache will end.
The election will come off and then these
papers which have torn their shirts to
howl for the grand old parties to which
they belong, will commence to abuse some
other politician. FARMER JOE DANIELS
yesterday attempted to preach a sermon
-prOfaning the Word of COP to apply it
to the political situation. 1t was sacri-
lege for that foaming paper to climb into
the pulpit, and it was blasphemy for the
political editor to use the inspired words
for a political football. Finally, the REV.
FARMER JosEPHUs admonished his read
ersto "vote as they prayed" Mr.. DANIELS
very evidently will vote as he brays.
The civil wal which this distinguished
gentleman predicted has failed to come,
and FARMER REVEREND JOsEPHUs DAN
IELs is the only man in the South who
has seeded. He is in the field, carrying
a sabre bayonet and a canteen. He has
played in the politics Of North Carolina
this year, the part hat Don QUIxOTE
played with the wind mills. He has been
a charger-nOt only in a political sense,
but in the matter of state printing.
The taxpayers expect to see this fall
and winter whether the poor old Chroni-
Gle shall receive the state printing con-
tract another year. They propose to see
why REVEREND FARMER j. DANIELS
should pose as a middle man, and farm
the state printing out to job printing es-
adjustments, and they cough up to the
great and only oracle some $4,000 a year
as a ~subsidy-in payment for his ranting
during a political campaign. Such sops
will not be much longer tolerated by the
people.
1t has been a custom for the state to
allow politicians to get "fat jobs" and
pull the legs Of taxpayers to foot the
bills. But there is a very general feeling
over the state that the middle men must
go. THE GLOBE does not propose to be
a bit mealy-mouthed when it talks about
taxpayers being robbed. TIE GLOBE
has but little property, but it'pays taxes
on what it owns, and it has a right to
talk. 1t wants to know:
What right has a state legislature to
farm out to some political striker the
states printing-the political striker in
turn employing some job printing house
to do the work-the job printing house
agreeing to pay fifteen cents on every
dollars worth to the politician who gets
the job for his professional political
work?
Why cannot the state let the printing
to the job printer, and instead of giving
two or three thousand dollars a year to a
political striker, put the money into the
general fund?
Why must taxpayers be held up to
support some fellow just because he has
type, ink and lungs like a jackass? In
this connection we desire to state that it
is u understanding that MIR. DANIELS
has the lungs and that he receives some
two thousand dollars of the peoples
money for doing practically nothing.
Why cannot the printing be let to the
lowest and best bidder, and why should
the taxpayer be bled to support political
newspapers which have no job office, and
papers which howl about civil war
through fear of losing the said state print
ing contract?
In a state that ranks as low as North
Carolina in the matter Of public schools,
it strikes people pretty generally that
these two and three thousand dollar a
year fat jobs should be done away with,
and the money thus squandered to sup
port bowling middle men, placed where
the school funds could receive the benefit
of it.
OF course those interested in the state
printing job will not endorse this, but
taxpayers who foot the bills will want
to know why the treasury should be
further %plundered.
JUDGE SALARIES.
Suppose Mr.. MILLER saved a thousand dol
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