Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-05-31
OFFICIAL PAPER BURLEIGH co.
THE NEW CODE.

The compilation commissioners met in
Fargo Tuesday to consider the bids for
printing the Revised Code. The bid Of
the Bismarck TRIBUNE was accepted, it
being the lowest and best bona fde bid to
DO the work in the state. There were
seven bidders beside Walker Bros, of
Fargo who put in a lower bid on a guar
anty bond of a printing firm outside of
the state to take the job off their
hands. The commission, backed by the
provisions of the new Code that all state
printing shall be done in the state and
by petitions signed by nearly all of the
business men of Grand Forks and
Fargo, decided that the work should be
done at home and therefore awarded
the contract to the Bismarck TRIBUNE.
The bids of the Grand Forks Plain
dealer, the Herald and News, the
Fargo Independent and jamestown
Alert ranged from 500 to $1,000 higher
than the TRIBUNE, figuring 1900 to 1000
pages as a basis.
Public sentiment is unqualitiedly in
favor of protecting home Industries to
the extent Of having all work that can
be done in the state performed at home.
It is not contemplated by law or good
sense that North Dakota printers shall
simply act as Understandable mentor
outside printing houses, with whom no
responsible home institution could CON-
pete. It would not be right to build up
cheap labor concerns at the expense of
North Dakota publishers or compel them
to compete with labor saving machinery
and appliances that eastern establish.
ments, in special lines, are equipped
with. The giving of this contract to an
establishment that will do the work means
the paying out of something like $4,000
for labor, the majority of it to actual
residents of the state. The giving of the
contract to a firm that would turn it
over to an outside house would mean a
small benefit to the broker and not a
cent to labor in this state. W. have paid
tribute to outside houses long enough.
Every year from 100000 to 100000
is sent out of this state from the various
counties for printing supplies to enrich
the printing and binding establishments
of st. Paul, Minneapolis, Chicago, st.
Louis and other cities. Be it said to the
credit of the last legislature this ruinous
policy must soon end. When the new
laws take effect all county as we'll as
state printing must be done in the state
and where practicable in the county
where the printing supplies are wanted.
The petitions before the compilation
commission, asking that the printing of
the code be done in this state, were
signed by the heaviest taxpayers of the
state and also included the name of the
editor of the Fargo Argus.
The bid of the Bismarck TRIBUNE
contemplates the turning out of the
finest job of printing and binding
ever done IN the state. It means the
printing of an 1900 page law book from
new type and the completion of the
job in the highest style of tie printing
and bookbinders' art. 1t means a cost to
the state of the ridiculously low figure
Of 1926 a volume for one of the largest
and most expensive bound full sheep law
books that comes to the law library of
the attorney-and from a North Dakota
printing house.
The TRIBUNE has always been a con-
sistent advocate of keeping all printing
in the state. It is right, it is wise, and
is a sentiment that Is endorsed by all
sagacious and patriotic citizens.