The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-05-15

Auosc were Dine otoooro Sog furnis
ing lndiaus children with grsmma
'physiologies, histories and spel.ers.
she meeting OF .he State Board OF Ed
cation lest week. from oil over the Ian
= Among them Prof. W. r. L. Ssnders q
Z Tered bis English Sentence for 90 Ct,
L1,e dig fall from the price the teachers ,
n \ Dubois county paid :or Il. The Boar
!, \. .,lhss taken I'll the bids under sdyisemen
.'Iand will examine the 5ooks offered. br
Iu 70 certain some Of them will te sdopI
SSied now, in time for next winters school,
!. Il Will be another BIG relief % the peo
\ epIe-thanks TO Democratic legislature
After submitting its bid The Indian
school book company also submitted
, through its president, Josephus Collett
: me following statement to the Board:
ITO the Honorable State Board Of Scaoo
i Book Commissioners Of the State o
Il Indiana:
i GESrLEAES-Two years ago il I
Communication TO your honorable bodv
accompanying . proposition 70 supply
school books under the provisions Of
the law Of 1889, the Indiana school book
company said among other thinRs:
we desire to invite the attention Of
Your honorable board to the fact that the
company rendering this proposal is com.
posed OF residents OF Indiana, who are
weII.known TO your body, viz: Joseph-
rs Colletf. of Terre Haute, William
Fleming and Il G. Bell. OF Fort Wayne.
William Heilmsn. Z. r. Huston and d.
J Mackey, Of Evansville, Jsmes Mur-l
dock. Of Michigan City, and Edward
Hawkins. OF Indianapolis: that they are I
making this bid solely 10 their own be- 4
bali. and not representing any other
corporation. 6rm or Individual, Ia or ont 4
o. the state; that their purpose 10, ifI
swsroed the contract, TO carry Il outl
'uI!y 10 the letter and spirit OF tho Law y
ana TO demonstrate the entire feasibility
d the project Of furnishing 70 the school
children Of Indiana textbooks In everyl
respect equal to those now in nee. at
prices very much lower than are or have 1
been Tor many years charged for such
Dooke, and within the limit Of the Law :(
llso, that every requirement made byll
vonr honorable body, % to the form and !
'ubstsnce Of the bid and bond, has been I
'crupulously complied WITH
1t will Be- remembered that this law
Eas passed 10 the face Of emphatic as- "a
uraDces from the school book publIeh- Ic
pg interests Of the country that it was
mrracticabse. They declared that suif- {
'ble books would not and could cot Be I
applied at the prices and under the con- {
litions named by the Law. Your bon. g
rsnle body. % required By the Law, "a. n
'erneed for pr0p0oals, bat none Werol =
soooroo. The large publiohinR housee :
= the country refused to bid, and the q
mailer houses, after looking The ground o
yer carefully, declined to make Z ven. e
ure which vas regarded BY the eotire q
rsde a. extremely hazard0us. Thus the =
ret test made Of the law seemed to DEM g
nstrate iss failure; bot your honorable g
ooy determined to make second At g
'mpt 70 put Il into force. and proposals .
'ere adveriiaed for. Il Wss not until 4
y nrst letting had failed and the second q
advertisement bad been published that y
'e corporators OF the lndisns school 4
cok company, after carefully consider b
q the eubject, decided 20 enter the e
eld; 20 get control Of drst-clsss text =
ooks and tender them 10 th9 board 81 q
'e prices dxed BY the law. In responselA .
the advertisement tho only books sub- q
lifted were the Indiana series OF eleven q
,oks. Or the vast number OF text. pl
'oks then published in the country By ~
ea who bed grown enormousl; hs
ealthy II the school book trade, not Z ca
ng'e reader, arithmetic, geography, 81
'eller. physiology, grammar or history %
- offered. The Indiana school book re
mpany thus entered : field which none GO
The established Publishing houses ec
ould touch. and 10 The face OF deter. 70
ined opposition and free predictions of'ch
lure ny experienced school-b book men n
cry whera IL undertook On enterprise ~
volving . very large Investment OF cap 2
" UDsble, from lack Of time, to se. du
70 oil the books named ID the Law, the d
mpany - coon - practicable engaged O.
best talent IN Indiana educators OF ~
highest reputation 10 their respective 10
rcislities to prepare the works peces. pa
y 70 complete the seTies. These works ust
submitted to-day IL entire comic eDcel y
Z they ere 10 every respect up 10 the mu
b standard 6xed BY the law and fully COZ
lsl, IN some features superior, to ihe the
responding books now used 10 In
NJ. =
kiter the contract had been awarded 10 ele,
Indiana school book company, itof .
} compelled to meet and overcome osu
most violent and persistent opposi- mai
}, inspired BY the monopolie which cou
been intcrfered with By The Law. boy
4 measure was attacked, both Ia the y 4,
uit courts OF the etsie and 10 the u. ne
courts, and the litigation, which waa The
Dying and expensive, wss carried 70 bee
supreme court Of the state, which eee
aimed both the Law and the contract. but
character Of the Indiana series OF aIie
ks was viciously asssiled and the The
nbers Of your honorable body were wee
ounced for performing the plain duty The
osed upon them BY the law. Ibe :
otwithstsnding this desperate and ship
recedented opposition, which in- carr
sed largely the difficulties OF the nm nor
sking assumed By this company, Il fee,
carried out its contract IL spirit and into
'r. and be- scrupulously fulfilled Tbs.
y guarantee Il made two years ego. lsst
. furnished books which have given DO q
people entire satisfaction at less than Unit
half the prices previously charged the