Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-05-15
The Herald says it was opposed


to a pool in city printing. The
Herald has always. participated
equally in the business benefits 81
any pool, and it this year endeavored
to increase it's receipts from the city
printing ON the grounds that 1t had
before been party to pool. 1t was
a. distinct violation OF the poo! that
any paper should take advantage OF
it's existence to gain any future ad.
vantage. G. E. Vasaly is the first
person ever engaged in the publish
ing business in Little Falls who
would he party to such pro-
ceeding. The pool existed only by
the joint agreement Of all papers In
the city. The paper which did the
work got 10 percent for the work
and divided the 80 per cent equally
among the papers. The present
publisher OF the Herald violated the
spirit of the agreement. under
which that paper has received
hundreds of dollars when it accepted
an individual reward for agreeing
not to enter pool this year.
Whether or not there was a deetre
for Il pool this wear makes no differ
ence with the principle of the matter.
As truth a pool had been impos-
siblc for months. and for weeks It
had been understood that the Her
aid was to be the official paper OF
this council. But it seems that the
condition which was mutually sat-
isfactOry to the Herald and Mecusker.
Moeglein and Martin was that the
Herald should receive more for the
printing than as matter offacthad
ever been the share received by any
paper. To take the course the
Herald did required very poor con-
ccption of business fairness, and it is
not surprising that it demanded a
sum In addition to what any paper
had ever received from the city. 1t
is matter in which G. F.. Vasaly
will find tia good deal easier to ex-
cuse himself to others in generalities
than to himself in detail.
When this Transc ript is inclined to
break a pool it will do as it did in
the county printing deal. 1t will not
attempt by bad faith with it's busi-
ness associates and misrepresenta-
tons to the officials to profit es.
pecially by the breaking OF the pool.
1t will ask or accept 70 favors from
officials, or pretend to deserve par
ticular reward for 1t.
The criticism of the Herald policy
(as between Dewspapers) is based
on the Herald theory and statement
that it prevented a pool. That po-
sition is not true, as the only paper
in the city that even nominally was
willing for a pool this year was the
Transcript. The Democrat was op-
posed to one under any conditions.
and it appears that the price of the
Herald's opposition was a greater
payment than any paper would re-
ceive under pool. The Transcript
had broken the county printing pool
and in considerati ton of the feelings
and interests that must exist be-
tween papers published in the same
community, did not care to be the
particular paper that should break
the city pool. Therefore, the Trans
cript informed the Herald few
hours before the city bids were to be
received that it (the Transcript
would agree to any proceeding sat
isfactory to the Herald and Demo-
craft. No agreement was expected.
and it was simply to establish the
private record that the Transcript
had not this time broken the pool.
The Democrat had plainly stated
that the pool would be broken, and
the Transcript was willing that the
final refusal should come this year
from one of the other papers. The
Herald afterwards made an answer
to the Transcript, stating it wasnot
to it's advantage this year to make
any pool. 1t develops that no one
had mentioned the printing pool to
the Democrat, for the evident reason
that it's position was well under
stood.
The Herald discusses the matter
and lays great stress on the point
that pool was offered. 1t would
convey the impression that both
other papers were willing to make
the pool, but it knows such an i'm
preston is false. The fact that the
private conversation held between
of the Transcript and
Herald was repeated to members of
the council shows quite plainly the
professional methods Of the present
owners of the Herald.
That paper is welcome to all itcan