Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-01-15

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% o Q Q Q o The daily paper having sub
30 y Regarding 0 mittcd a 'bd" to be named
80 o one of the official papers Of the
20 o :" y county, it is not inappropriate
-, - O County O to offer a few comments along
0 49,. 0 the lines OF legitimate business
3 0 Printing o Transactions. ''''' ''''''
- Q Q Q Q Q 90 The daily offers to do the
Is printing FOR thirty-oigIlt per cent Of the rate
o heretofore paid, which, rs we understand it, is
Q known as The legal rate. 1t may be added, in this
y y connection, that the total sum paid to any one
Q newspaper for such printing as comes within the
Q daily s bidding was less than two hundred dollars
Q for work done during 1913. The bid, therefore,,
3 offers to cut the price to scvcnty-six dollars for
o every two hundred dollars worth under the rates
Q heretofore paid.
o Now, for a moment, let rs consider this mat
Q ter Of bidding for official recognition. We under
= stand that the statutes allow a member Of the
8 county board four dollars q day for his services
8 on the board. This is the stipend which Mr.,
2 Westfall and the other members have been receiv-
: ing. That is the salary which Mr.. Barrette on
8 MI. Bannlster or Mr.. Hanten will get, if either
2 becomes a member Of the county board through
7 election next fall. Why not put this office up to
8 the lowest bidder? No doubt men could be found
8 indeed, would gladly offer to do it-who would
9 act n that capacity for, say, two and a half a day.
! We are not suggesting the wisdom of the prin-
5 elple,bu rather its rank foolislness.
9 Carrying ii a little farther, we have three can
didates now IN the field for county treasurer. We
) understand the law to allow a treasurer d sal
) AIRY of two thousand dollars a year. Why not
, elect the one ut the three who will serve for the
!, least amount of salary Or, to so still further,
) why not eliminate all three il some man will Offer
} Il bid to serve as treasurer for less?
Nh. S. x. Way and Mr.. 4. b. Roberts are re-
, s~peetively candidates fol- state committeeman Of
} the Two republican factions. Why not ask for
2 bids for the ~positiong Maybe some one could be
!, found who would actually pay the state something
] for The distinction of being named.
And there III another feature, more. important
than any Of the points already touched upon. For
!, the past decade there has been d great hue aud
! outery against HE stbig fish eating up the slit
; lie fish, Men like Rockefeller and Morgan and
!, Hartman and Armour have been denounced from
) political honsatops for freezing out small conn
; ~petitors. Roosevelt and Wilson seemingly have
, been Nying With each other IN trying to. devise
) ways and means for preventing the monopollza-
, tion at business by the big fellows. The Rookie
z felIers and the Harrimans and the Armours and
! the SWifts have been freezing out the little chaps
s. through i system of ullder-selling in localities
2 where they have had competition, They have
rendered service III some instances at less tftn
5 cost iii order to Kill off rivals.
g The daily newspaper which, III its own est
nation, at least, is trying to cover the universe
5 and a g~oo6Isized section OF Mars, while ostensibly
= chalnpioningS the cause Of honest competition as
g applied TO other fellows, doesla, 7 appear to be will
i ing ~ accept that principle fol itself and its COM
8 ~petitors
But that isA't All. If IL paper can advertise
d for lhodington county ut 4 gwen rateit can adj
oAyerfise for this sauarestoed business men of Va
fertowa at The same rate. Take this bid of thirty
Seigst per cent for instance: The rate for print
5 ing the official proceeding of the county board s
a twenty@3fr csats FOR 4 square 81 twelve Ines
s. Twelve lines ~ the daily occupy almost two inches
d of space--uone inch and seyeiseights. Its bid iss
8 therefore, Observation-Disclosures e cents An inch, 81 Just
g about hesessske cost of ssttlllgs tlle type
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