Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-27
The State Printing.

he organ VI tllc DCiiioti heiN
date for Governor Is no sooner brought
to task for its Misrepresentation III
one direction, than it nimbly lodges
the issue and breaks out afresh in some
new place. Naturally it feels some
what resentful at the Journal for show
ing up some of it's palpable errors am
mis-representations. The splendid
showing which the Republican party
has made in it's administration OF STATE
affairs is decidedly disconcerting TO MI
Davis who had hoped to escape IRON
national issues in this presidential
wear. and divert public attention from
the unsayory record of his party pS
doJping behind local issues. Inc idS'
point of attack selected by the Dei''o-
cratic candidate and his organ Is tn''
state printing In the figures given ''e
fact is carefully concealed that there
has been no increase in the prices p''''
for printing since 1SS2, hol"i'"-
standing the fact that printers
wages are forty per cent. his"''
today than they were theh' a''o
,b,t tbey now work nine hours Gay
when they then worked ten noun Ct
dav. and that, consequently any III"
croas. in the cost Of that department
has been due to the Increased puShie''
done by the Legislature ana the uep''
nouts of State. to the creation of ne"
denartments and institutions i'll re-
sronse to public demand, ana u 'he
greater demand for public reports ana
documents on the part of the people
of the State. IN considering 'iii' MAJ
tor thc fact must be clearly porhe III
mind that while the state expended Ill
,ooo tho SIM of s711, 4G5.4S for the
education of its youth the approprl-
,,ion for printing i'll that year (Sjoooo
exclusive Of The legislative printing!
WAS the only provision for the general
information of the citizens OF Maine
uron the official affairs of the State
,rd that IT covered also miscellaneous
working printing required for the loi-
lowing State officials and institutions:
Governor, Executive Council, Secre-
tary of State, State Treasurer
Adiutant General, Attorney General
STATE Supt. of Schools, Land Agent,
Forest Commissioner, Hstnk Examiner
Pension Agent. Insurance Commission
or Superintendent Public Buildings,
state Librarian, Labor Commissioners
state LIQUOR Commissioner, Inspector
Factories. Maine Insane Hospital Au-
gusta, Railroad Commissioners, state
Assessors, Fish and Game Commas
sIoncrs. commissioners Sea and Shore
Fisheries, Cattle Commissioners, COM
missioners of Pharmacy. Agent Penob-
scot Indians. Agent Passamaquoddy
Indians inspectors Prisons and Jails
inspectors Of Steamboats,, State Board
of Health, Board Medical Registration
Board Dental Examiners, State Boar
of Agriculture, Maine Insane Hospital
Bangor, Stlte Prison, State Reform
School. Maine Industrial School for
Girls. Military & Naval Orphan
Asylum-Bath, University of Maine
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion State Normal SchOOl-CaStinc,
State Normal School-Farnington
State Normal School-Gorham, NADIA
waska Training School, and Maine
School for the Deaf.
With its customary fairness the
organ of Mr. Davis compares the cost
of printing in 1908 with the cost in 1852
notwithstanding the fact that 1903 was
a legislative year while 1882 was not.
Moreover it includes in it's 1903 figures
the sum of *o.5S6.46 for printing and
binding the commissioners report OF
revision of the statutes as submitted
to tn. special session of the Legislature
last Septenller-an expense which is
incurred but once in twenty years
The annual appropriations for State
printing from 1865 to and including 1882
were as follows: