Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-10-29
The state Printing.

The state Printing.
Editor Journal;
A short time ago your paper con-
tanned a communication from Mr.. Sell
lers criticizing me for opposing adop-
ton Of the pending law to fix upon
oregon the system Of state support
ed printing department under control
Of a labor organization Of which he is
member, In the circumstances, l
ask for space to give your readers
some information, to aid in reaching a
right conclusion as to "flat-salary
printing"
No advocate Of the state-ownership
and flat-salary system of printing at
tempts to discuss the provisions Of the
law offered to Oregon voters Why?
Because the bill is indefensible, Jok-
ors hidden in it are found by all inyes-
tigators. Salem grange recalls its en-
dorsement and points out the sections
containing the jokers, viz, Sections 2
G, 10, II, 12, IA, Is, and especially Sec
ton T. Marion County Pomona grange
Linn County Pomona grange and Multi.
nomah County Pomona grange alsC
have repudiated it, The Taxpayers
League of Multnomah county declares
against it.
No advocate of that method of doing
public printing has presented any fig
ures or statements as to its economy
or success in any state where agita
tors and trucking politicians have
procured its adoption. 1t is always
the most costly and extravagant meth
cd Of doing public printing that IL
known. That's why it has champions
and boosters in Oregon-some Of then
in official places in the state house
Labor agitators and trucking politi
clans are its authors and sponsors.
FlNt-Salary System in California.
have presented facts as to Califor
mia, where the flat-salary system pre-
walls, and where it has evolved u INA
cline so powerful that the homes
citizenship Of the state is unable t
overthrow It, The facts are that i'm
mense sums Of money have bee
gQuandered there by its apologists an
bcneficiaries; that $3l5OOO is tied Il
IN a plant, much Of it unnecessary, an
much Of the time; that during the las
reported biennial term, 1902, ,672.30 wa
paid out in fat salaries that legisla
J tive printing alone for single ses
sion eats up ten times as much
Salaries" to printers as the stat
printer Of Oregon receives for a whol
sessions printing ($71,O95 for salariC
, there against S7liO for my last legi,
, latiye printing bill in Oregon thi
upkeep Of plant, and 6 per cent intel
est on the large investment, amount
more than Oregon pays her stat
) printer for full years printing; tn,
, large amounts Of needless printir
are done to keep idlers, loafers, II
, competents and friends of politician
on the payroll; that some politician
in Oregon are endorsing the schen
SO as to get similar favors here at @
pense Of the state treasury
Oregon boosters say, in derons
that California has -four times Or
, CONS population, and therefore Il
Comparison is unfair; or in 9th
words, that It Is all right for It
cost ten times as much because Ca
fornia has four times the populatio
Ncrada'S Flat.Salary Experience.
= Then let's take another flat-sala
5 state, our neighbor Nevada She h
a not four times Oregon's populate
Oregons population, $4,000; Neyad,
: $1,000, Yet Nevada has almost 81 p
4 capita in building and plant; her a
preparations for 19O9-1O were $6S,l
q for the printing department, or
e per capita, No report as to cost
J. any printing is made; but "imprC
u slons' on the basis Of single sheets
u eight-page forms are officially repo
q ed for the two-year term, to-wit, "
!. OS5,OOO Impressions Think of II
\ $685. 1856 appropriated, the cost Of