The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-24
direct from West Virginia to the Posr.
lNTELLrGEXCER Office.
NELSON BENEFITS THRIFT.
How the Guardian OF the reopie's
Interests Bleeds Pierce Conntx


TACOMA, Oct. 23.-TSpeciaI. Today.
Sunday Herald contains the following rel
ative To the methods of Nelson Bennett
who is posing as the arch enemy of Seattle:
While the Ledger publishes columns OF matter
about the Seattle ring rohbing the national
treasury for the canal. the Ledger is in the posi-
fion OF a robber itself ii excessive prices sor
ofhc!ai and county printing can be On led rob
berry The Ledger gets over four times as much
Tor official printing as the taxpayers of King
county and the city OF Seattle pay for the same
service. Mr. Bennett is not paving up the earth
IN the interest of the tax payer tor nothing. He
gets 81 to 81 paid to Others for printing for every
howl he makes. While Mr.. Bennett is defend
ing the national treasury with one hand, the
other is inserted in the treasury of his homo
city and county engaged in raking into his own
Office thousands OF dollars of net Doodle for
work which can be done for . much less price,
rs illustrated by the bids of others for the same
printing.
For the city and county official printing sac
Lodqer's bid was 90 cents per inch for the first
insertion aud 50 cents for each subsequent in
sertion.
The bid of the PosT T.ISTELLI6HNCER for the
same kind OF printing for the city of Seattle was
20 cents per inch for the first insertion and 10
cents per inch for each su bsequent insertion.
Note the diiferencei
The Ledger gets 20 cents more per linear inch
on the first proposition, and 20 cents more for
the second and subsequent insertion than the
PosT-lSTELLIGEScER does.
Who thinks that the PosT-ISTELLIGENCER is
doing this work for nothing or at n loss?
There is neat profti it at the Posr-INrELLI-
GsScEg's figures
What must there be in ii at the Lcdgcr's fig.
ures?
The taxpayers can see where their money
DO the taxpayers of the city OF Tacoma aud
the county Of Pierce like it, They do If they
want TO make Mr.. Economy Bennett present
OF a clean 81 600
III the PosT-lNTELLIGENCER car make profit
on the work at - cents an inch, the taxpayers
can see that they being compelled TO pay
Calamity How!er Bennett net profit of about
81 for each inch OF official printing Ii the tax
payer will measure Up the quantity of official
city and county printing that runs from time to
time in the Ledger, he may be foreiby impressed
with the situation.
1t is seer that the Ledger and Mr. Bennett are
not defending the interests of the taxpayers
OF this city and county for nothing
Ii costs the daily papers OF the Coast q uni
form price for typcsettng. It therefore costs
the Ledger no more To have this matter sat thnu
1t does the PosT-INTELLIGEScER. Where the
PosT-lETELLiGENCER makes 81 out of the wsrk
the LedgG pulls the leg of the taxpayer for from
$itos5.
Here are the bids of the Seattle papers:
Seattle PosT-ISTELLIGESCER-() For publish
ing proceedings OF council; no charge. C,) For
publishing ordinances and other official notices,
twenty COY cents per linear inch for first inser-
tion, and ten Qo) cents per linear inch for each
subsequent insertion. @) For publishing de-
hnquent tax list, four (D cents for each dascrip-
tion for the full time required by law.
Seattle T6tegrdph-First insertion, twenty eco,
cents per linear inch set in solid nonparefl;
each subsequent insertion, ID cents per linear
inch.
Seattle Press Times by the Olympic Publish
ing Company twenty-five t25) cents per linear
inch for first insertion, and twenty f2e) cents
per linear inch for each subsequent insertion.
The bids were awarded to the Posr-ISTELLr-
GESCER and the Press Times.
Mr.. Bennett charges the taxpayers exor-
bitant and unreasonable price. He is beyond
doubt feathering his own nest and lining his
own pocket sin defense OF the taxpayers
Editorially, under the caption Of "Seme-
thing of Looter HIMSELF" the Herald
adds:
While the Ledeer Is crying economy and going
into Mysteries ON the subject of defending tho
money OF taxpayers OF the United States, Mr..
Benuett is getting thousands of dollars too
much out OF the treasures Of the city and
county iii exorbitsnt prices for official print
ing. The Ledger fs paid over four times as
much for this service as the people of seattle
and King county pay the Posr-lsTELLIGEScEB
and the Press Times their official newspapers.
1t is mistake to think that Mr.. Bennett is pay
ing for the Ledger. The taxpayers of Pierce
county and the city OF Tacoma are paying for
the publication of il. For every 81 that Is paid
in Seattle aud King county for official printing
the Ledger gets si50 There is a neat profit in
the WORK at the Seattle figures, and II that is SO.
what is the price paid the Ledger but iooting