The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1910-11-10
THAT COUNTY PRINTING.

has been said about the county print
ing that we fell constrained to state
the facts.
In the first place, the Hayti Herald
asked for u portion of the election
printing, because we had right so to
dove have legal and moral right
to solicit business, just the same as
other people. Simply because we are
in Hayti is no reason that we should
be denied recognition
But it has not been our intention to
use threats or force.
Hayti, being the next important
town in the county, and the Herald
being the only newspaper in the en-
tire north end of the county, feels just
ly entities to som e recognition.
That is about all there is to it.
I AS to bidding for the work and TAX
I ing it at starvation prices, we are free
from any such cut-throat methods.
The law has very justly fixed the rates
to be charged for work of this kind.
and if we do not merit it and do not
deserve 1t at this price, we will not
bid on il and cut our own throat in or
der to starve and deprive some other
paper of legitimate living
Pemiscot county is "A great and rich
county and her people are broad
minded and liberal. The citizens of
Pemiscot county do not ask and do
not expect the newspapers of the coun-
ty to work for them free of charge. The
newspapers do more to advertise, ele-
vate and up build Pemiscot county
than any other agency; they advocate
and pull for every pubic movement,
improvement and enterprise; they are
for the levees, the drainage, the
railroads, the schools, the churches,
and for the general public good; the
newspapers advertise the county and
its resources to the outside world, and
our labor for our county, our cities and
our people never ceases.
Then, after all these labors, do the
people of Pemiscot want us to do ne
cessary legal work at or less than
cost?
OF course they do not, and if we
thought they did expect such, We
would certainly move our print-shop.
The whole trouble is with the news
1 papers themselves, in then efforts to
/ fight, knife and starve one another.
But the Herald has never been and
never will be party to any such
methods.
The Herald has never bid on the
county printing, and never will.
/ Whenever the county gets too poor
to pay the legal rate for it's printing il
will not need any newspapers.
OF course the division of county
work may not, at al times, seem
some other paper from getting it
would it not seem foolish il
us, tobid the work in at less than cost
The county court clerk, in strict ac'
cordance with the law, has the excl us
i've management of this work. and the
county court is not concerned in tn,
matter.
In this particular instance the Law
does not call for bids.
1t might be interesting reading if on
paper in the county would publish th
reason why it did not publish th'
Constitutional Amendments.
Perhaps no one thought the Argu
and the Herald could print more thar
one issue a week.
, 1t should be remembered that thi
: advertising shall appear in TWO Is
SUES before the election.
Not TWO WEEKS.
The Argus and the Herald print o
j. THURSDA Us.
Two other papers print twice-a-weeE
TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS.
This reminds us of the dog and tn
bone.
The Argus and the Herald, accord
J ing to agreement, did not print tn
amendments.
One other paper left them out.
After the Argus and Herald wei
printed ont, it seems, question WI
raised by some one as to the legalit
| of part of the ticket being printed i