The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-12-16
A REPLY TO The HERALD.

Our neighbor, the Manitowoc Her
aid. took occasion last Thursday to in
terject in its columns the following
animadversion:
printers of the city again IBID their
heads OFF, in trying to land the county
board proceedings. after the printing
committee had turned down a propo-
sition to print the proceedings in four
papers at II cents per folio. The Tri-
bune which raised such a row about
the awarding of the contract to four
combined papers. never even put in a
bid having forced the printers to enter
into IA competition wherein the pro-
ceedings viii be circulated in but one
paper and some thousands of pamphlets
printed that in the end will be left to
. accumulate in the vault of the county
clerk. Thus the printers make moth
ing on the deal and the people of the
county have little opportunity of read
ing the proceedings of the board. In
the meantime the Socialist papers
which forced the situation. are laugh
ing in their sleeves"
Apparently the writer of the above
stuff is not disposed to observe the
admonition. IF you cant be good, be
cautious. The matter itself Is replete
with the tinger-prints which signalize
the sDace-writer. The writer showed
himself loose and slOvenly if not irres-
ponsible: careless to a point bordering
upon culpability.
Surmising that by IBID their heads
Off the Herald means that the print
erS bid too low. let us say that the
Herald has merely exposed its ignor-
anCe and does not know whereof it
speaks. In throwing a slur at the
Pilot it has simply branded itself a
sOrehead. We believe that we shall
make a reasonable profit on the job.
and if we may say so without seeming
churlish, we think we know more
abo ut figuring ON job than the Hel
aid does.
The second count. that a proposition
was made to print the proceedings in
four papers at ID cents per folio. is a
lie out of whole cloth. The Pilot edi-
tor himself made the proposition to the
committee to print the proceedings in
four papers at &irty cents per folio.
The committee rejected the offer and
advertised for bids, and was not actua-
ted in 50 doing by the Socialist papers.
The committee ON printing consists of
leyel-headed men who cannot be
forced" to do things by Socialist pa
pers. or the Herald either.
The Herald makes another break
when it says that thousands of pamph-
lets will be printed that in the end will
be left to accumulate in the vault of
the county clerk, for the notice to
printers does not call for the printing
of supplements at all. Evidently the
Herald writer did not read the adver-
tisemcnt. He was probably too busy
attending to the voting contest and
drew wholly on his Imagination for the
trash he doled out.
In the fourth count it is charged that
'"The printers make nothing on the
deal" This is another wild guess and
shows the writer's lack of accountability
and Judgment.
In the fifth count the Herald charges
that the people will have little oppor-
tunity of reading the proceedings. We
deny the allegation and defy the allie
gator We assert that more taX-pay-
ers will read the proceedings in the
Pilot than would if they were publish
ed in the Herald. Our subscription
list has increased materially in the
past few years and largely without so
licitation. Unlike our neighbor we
have not given away mirrors, hall
racks clocks, automobiles, pianos.
stoves. and so ON and so forth in order
to get subscribers. The Pilot has ncv-
er reSortcd to a "hold up" game to in
crease its subscription list and under
the present management never will.