Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-11-23

10 one OF TWO lJeHlS Inc clerk calls up the price
charged by The Record under its present manage
ment of $500 for the printing Of the assessment
notices for 1916; now will he kindly go back one
year farther, which was Just before the war broke
out and the price Of paper began to soar, and see
what the county paid the present publisher of "the
other paper" when the question of competition did
not enter in. He will find that $4,000 was the
amount. The excess in the cost of the paper
used for the 1916 notices over the 1915 notices
would not be less than four to six dollars. If
the present management of The Record over
charged for the 1916 assessment notices, then
what about the price charged by the other fellow
in 1915?
The figures quoted by the Clerk on job printing
and bids submitted for the same prove only one
thng-the thing that we have all along been try
ing to get the commissioners to see-that the pur-
pose of 'the other paper in submitting bids be-
low the actual cost of producing work are neither
to save the county money nor to build up legiti-
mate business for himeself, but to njure us, who
he frankly admits that he is fighting and will con-
tinue to fight "as long as God puts breath in his
body"
Here is our Offer--is it Fair?
We are here to do legitimate, straight-for-
ward business All we want is fair price for
what we do; we are not out to try to undermine
or destroy anybody else, and we are willing to
submit any price charged the county for print
ing or any bid we have made on county work, TO
committee of Salt Lakes most responsible print
ers, or to the secretary of the Franklin Club which
in effect regulates the price of printing in this
state as well as elswhere in the larger cities, and
if in any instance we have overcharged, we will
gladly refund the amount of the overcharge. That
is fair, isn't it? Now will the publisher of "the
other paper agree to the same? And if the prices
we have submitted for public printing are found
to be fair and reasonable, will he admit to being
"a scab" when he submits bid 2536 or more be-
low what it is worth, in order to try to njure the
business of some one else, and create false inn
preston as to prices and values?
The Commissioners have been largely ignorant
of the motives and the under current in this mat
ter, and we give them credit for acting in good
faith and for what they believed to be the best
interests of the county; but with the facts before
them we believe that they can see the 'nigger in
the woodpile," and how to a certain extent they
have been imposed upon.
Let the Name Go With the Game.
Aside from the publication of the delinquent
tax lists, during the past two years, The Record
has received Just $115.89 worth of bushes from
the county considerable portion of this amount
being for the publication of ordinances at one
half our regular rates, as already mentioned, and
which special price we herewith withdraw, for the
reason that it was unbusiness-like and unjust to
the other patrons of the paper to begin with, and
was done merely in order that the county could
get its laws before the combined readers of the
two papers published in the county at the same
price it had been paying before second paper was
established here. AS to the delinquent tax list,
as already stated the Parowan paper has not been
equipped to handle it with any degree of satsfac-
tion OF the amount received only small per
cent can be considered profit so is of no conse-
quence the Board is therefore welcome to trans
fer "our bit" to "the other paper" and let it have
the name well as the game" The Record will
very probably go on living just the same without
it.
The Dog i'm the Manager Attitude
few words more in relation to the publication
of the delinquent tax lists in the past, and will
conclude this article. The clerk makes a tremen-
dous display of the mares nest" he imagines he
has discovered in connection with the publication
of the list last year. and quotes the editor of the
other paper" authority for the statement that
The Record paid him mot less than $50 for keep
ing still while the county was heeced" Sounds
awfully bad, doesn't it, particularly for a man who
would sell out his county for piece of money and
see it fleeced And when take into considera-
tion that the proposition came from that side, it
does not improve his standing, either. And then,
on the top of it all to "squea" on his pal" brings
the yellow streak out more than vivid. Well, to
tell you the truth it isn't anything to feel proud
Of to think you have to buy over fellow who
like the dog in the manger, cannot eat the hay
himself, and still tries to bite you if you attempt
to eat it. We have invested lot of money in
equipment, so as to be prepared to do Just this
sort of difficult work, which is beyond the capacity
of hand type country Offices, and is it so very
strange that we should expect to make a little
margin of profit on the work, when it comes around
only once in twelve months? The amount stated
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