The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-03-10
THE PROSPECTUS
OF THE SHREVEPORT
SNATCH-'EM-ALL


Shreveport Snatch Email Publishing
Company, Limited, to fill long fel
want-to-wit: To publish the city print
ing exclusively, at the lowest rates, and
SO forth, on strictly original plan.
1t is true there are others in the field
OF competition, viz: The Shreveport
Times, Vol XXXV, No. 1873; The
Shreveport Journal, Vol XIII, No so
The Caucasian, Vol XVIII, No. 30;
The Union Banner. Vol. 1. No. 40; but
all these could not deter the Snatch
EMAIL in the fulfillment of the func-
tions for which it is to be specially ere
ated
The Snatch Email may be sized up
Vol |. No. 0, but it can grow and ex-
pand. and in time may become a Vol.
of indefinite Roman numerals
No man in the quick can foretell its
possibilities. Ii it were measured by its
ambition to be the official organ of the
City of Shreveport" it would within a
few months cover the circumference OF
the globe
The Times has plant of its own: so
has the Journal and so has The Cau-
casian. These plants represent invest
ments of thousands of dollars. with pay
rolls every week ranging a thousand or
more dollars.
The Union Banner. their competitor,
has no plant or actual investment and is
jobbed out every week, from jot
printing plant. 1t has no capital at stake
and if SO inclined it could, as the Arab,
fold its tent and ride out on bike,
or "hoof it to its journeys end.
A long experience has about demon
strated that the only practical system of
indulging in print is to have it jobbed
out without investing capital or risk in
plant. and therefore the Snatch En-
All Publishing Company. Limited, has
completed all necessary arrangements,
including the details and the ct ceteras,
with The Caucasian & Carney Printing
Company, upon whose presses. small or
big jobbers or cylinder, it will be pub
lished on short notice.
Assuming in advance that some un-
friendly critic would suggest that the
Snatch Email is to be simply city
administration sheet, we would acknowl-
edge the corn rnanfully.
AS before said, we simply desire to
become ''the official organ of the city of
Shreveport at the lowest bid. without
reference to any future consideration
whatever.
THE LAWS ON PRINTING.
The legal rates are one dollar for the
first and fifty cents for each subsequent
per inch of 100 words to the
inch of the type used. but it is Il fact
that in Act of 1881 it is provided that
police juries and municipal corporations
In all parishes, including the parish of
shall not order public printing
of any kind unless the same be done un-
der contract and adjudicated to the
lowest bidder after ten days notice by
advertisement, which means when inter
preted intelligently that the lowest bid
der. must be prepared to fill, promptly
and satisfactorily every detail OF the
contract.
However, our apprehension lies in the
fact that while we are prepared to exc
cute the contract as the lowest bidder,
we may meet the fate of the lowest bid
der who was turned down by the Police
Jury in favor of The Caucasian, which
was the second highest bidder. The Po-
lice jury decided against the lowest
bidder for the reason that The Caucas-
an reached the greatest number of peo-
Die in the country If we can evade this
of the law we will be O. K.
In Act 38 of 1894 referring to pub
ications i'll the parishes, it is required
hat newspaper shall have been in ex-
stence twelve months becofe it is COM
,etent to assume the honor of official
printer
Can a Weakly be the official journal
If the City of Shreveport?
In Act 40 of 1877 relating to public
printing, it is required that the sale of
property, under judicial process. and
my legal proceedings of whatever kind,
hall be published in the parish of Or
cans in paper which shall have been
published for at least one year
The charter of the City of Shreveport
5 silent on the qualification of the pub
ic printer. but law, by precedent, was
established when The Caucasian was re-
,ognized and awarded the contract for
he city printing, as it possessed the re-
lulsite age, and was not a weekly and
,ould fulfill every requirement of the
'ity according to age, standing and so
.orth.
1t, however, in the face of these facts,
he Snatch EMAIL. which is prepared
0 scale the price of the Union Banner
10 cents off is recoouized land there &c