The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-01-22
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THAT COUNTY PRINTING.

There seems to be sort of concerted
action on the part of the Mapleton En-
terprise and the Good Thunder Herald
to make war upon the county board
over the award for printing the pro-
ceedings Of said board AMI the fnan-
cial report because thatAbody wisely
concluded to continue custom
which has been in vogue in this county
for many years of recognizing ali Of
the papers of the county, so that the
taxpayers and people generally may
keep in close touch with the county
business and know what is going on.
The trouble seems to be because the
board recognized the wider circula-
tion of the FREE PRESS, Revieao and
Post and paid them accordingly. There
is one thing which the papers refer
red to fail to distinguish in their
reference t. the FREE PRESS and Re-
uie,U and that is that there are two
distinct publications in each office,
which circulate among entirely diff
ferent constituencies, So that the price
paid for any one publication for the
proceedings is only SIS more than
either of the u'hrr publications.
! named, instead Of $50 more than the
| aggregate paid TO the country papers,
as asserted, which is considerably diff
| terent. Again, accepting tIIcIr yer
| sion Of the matter, tie 500 paid to
each the FREE PRESS ana II, Uie,O j. fer
| twice the work, as IL iuctuhe- e
commissioners report, which they do
not have, so their comparison is not
true. And as to value, The weekly
edition of either the FREE PRESS or
Revie,D would doubtless approximate,
if not exceed the total circulation of
outside papers named, and the daily
editions will crowd close behind, SO
that the board seems to have had an
idea as to what it was doing and what
it was paying for the territory
covered.
Again they find fault with the
board because it gives the Post 500
for the commissioners report and the
proceedings, and declare it is illegal
because that paper is not printed in
English as the law specifies a legal
but that the board knew all this when
it voted the 500 for printing the re-
port and proceedings. 1t should be
remembered that the Post has large
circulation among class of the most
solid and thrifty people of our county,
the older portion at least of which dc
not read English. Doubtless they
take an interest in what is going on in
connection with the county govern.
ment and the money paid the Post is
not by any means thrown away, but
we'll invested.
Considering the circulation which
the matter gets, the county board has
done we'll in getting it done for the
amount paid, and the division is
equally as we'll made. Doubtless
there is not county in the state the
size of Blue Earth that gets it's print
ing done as cheaply for the wide
circulation given. Again, the pa
pers here at the county seat have tC
60 to the trouble of copying the pro
ceedings of the board for copy, ano
guard against errors in doingso while
the outside papers can simply clip
copy and hang it on the hook. Taking
it all around the country papers are
as we'll paid accordingly for the work
as are the papers in the city.