Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-23
Ten Minutes With a Neiehbor.

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printing. 1t is the spirit of the muir.
derer. The Sentinel has been a costly
rival to the Augusta paper that had
| a monopoly of the Kennebec Valley fol
years. It must have hurt the Bur
leigh paper a good deal in more ways
than one. II the Sentinel should be
obliged to throw up the sponge, as the
| Kennebee Journal hopes. it would be a
| happy result for the Augusta paper.
The Sentinel has gone to big eX-
pense equipping for the State printing
and the plant represents much more
of an investment than a mere news
paper enterprise would warrant in this
State Mr.. Davis frankly states what
the loss of the contracts means to the
paper and the editor of the Kennebec
Journal eXults over the possibility that
its rival will be removed, pointing out
that nobody would take over the Sem
tinel without the State printing
Biddeford Record.
II you only could tell the truth, dear
Record what prize pumpkin you
might be in your community. Now. il
you have any grasp of newspaper az
fairs, you ought to know that it is to
the Kennebec Journals advantage to
have a newspaper of another political
faith in its field Waterville has To-
cal pride to satisfy and would loyalty
support local newspaper that repre-
sented truth and decency. That is
what we would like to see in that part
brood fold
The people of the central portion of
Maine are aware Gf the Record is noD
that for years the organ engineered
| by Cyrus w. Davis at Wateryille con-
! Quoted campaign of abuse of the
| Kennebee Journal and the people who
| stand with it, while on the Journal
part it practically ignored its vilifier.
| The Waterville sheet first filleu the
air with insinuations and charges that
| public printing plant was crook. At
| ter the journal had been yindicated
in public investigation by those who
| had been led to doubt, the same sheet
| kept up its libelous chatter from week
to week on the general policy of in
i decency which has characterized its
/ career. We would rejoice to see Ii
"reorganized'' under a management
that could claim and hold the respect
of Waterville's best citizens.
But the most MISUNDERSTANDING
| rroneous-conclusion reached by oul
Biddeford contemporary is that the
| present invalid State printing contract
is of financial value to any firm. II
| Secretary of State Davis hold on
| newspaperdom was to be saved by
| that contract he has long been living
| on borrowed time, for it was without
doubt a financial setback to his con-
Germ, and if any time or cost system
| had been kept, Mr.. Davis would have
| been aware of this fact. II might
have aided to sell stock-not trust
| company or mining stock-in his insu.
| tuition, to those who know nothing OF
the printing business.
No printing establishment in Maine
| is so we'll fitted to handle the State
| work quickly and well as is the Ken
nebec Journal, and when the Governor
and Council turns the contract over tt
/ lower bidders, they have conferred nt
political plum on the recipient
| Lastly. the Biddeford Records as
| sertion. that we said nobody would
| take over the Sentinel without th'
| state printing" is downright false
| hood. We have never uttered a wore
that could be twisted into such an eX
preston. And would add that ANYONE
who would take it over with the pres
ent contract would know nothing o
the printing business.
Right here, for the benefit of GU
Biddeford friend. we would quot
Mayor Gaynor of New York, who SAID
1.-THE immensely of the power TO
| rood represented by the America
| press, experimenting tie WIZ " A'
a million public-sehool teachers, to sa
nothing of 215,O0o ministers of religion
makes it all the more important tina
no shelter should be given TO nm WI
turns journalism into systematic de
ception or moral assassination. Dem
, ocratic institutions have no deadlie
enemy than the professional falslhe
of daily events or the professions
} libeIer who ruins regulations and POI
| sons the community through the print
ed sheet; and free government canne
: survive the continuance of such cor
dition.
There can be no better medicine tina