Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-05-15

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II farmer wishes to know any.
thing about county affairs, about pro-
Plating Of estates, about foreclosures
or sales of land, he must take the
league paper. No other is permitted
to print them.
People will be forced to subscribe
for the league paper to find out any
thing Of legal nature.
Will this law kill the Emmons
County Record, the Hazelton Repub-
lican and the Braddock News? It
will, unless one of them is purchased
by the Brinton crew and appointed
as the one legal paper in the county.
The league sharks and cappers who
have been used to drag their innocent
neighbors into Townley's financial
net talk only about the county print
ing. That is a minor part of the no.
torious steal. At the present time
the Emmons County Record is not
one of the official county newspapers,
and is not getting one cent for coun-
ty work. Nevertheless, it has an in
come of more than 500 per month
from other classes of legals.
The new league law will steal all
such legal business for the league
controlled sheet, and it will force our
subscribers to take the league news
papers. And when we egin to lose
our subscribers, the advertisers will
have to switch to the paper that gets
the subscribers.
Today the Emmons County Record
has twice as much advertising as the
Emmons County Free Press. It re-
ceives more than twice as much from
ordinary legals than the Free Press
does from the county printing.
Though our subscription price is $500
per year and the Free Press only
$1.5O, we have many more legitimate
paid subscribers than they. And our
list lost quite number while the edi-
tor was in the army for eighteen
months, although many of them are
coming back. Twenty-one new ones
in April, and more than an average
of one day this month.
We have mentioned the above to
show the people just what the condi-
tions are when each paper has to
shift for itself. Can any intelligent
man doubt the result when one paper
is guaranteed monopoly of hun
dreds of dollars of additional business
that it never could get in the world
if people weren't forced to give it to.
them by law.
Why, even listen to this. The edi-.
tor of the Record is the executor of
an estate. He will have legal publ
cations to make Herewith. Under.
that notorious Brinton printing grab
bill, the editor of the Record will
have to march meekly into the sane
tum of his competitor and say,
please. Mr.. Editor, print this legal
notice for me so it will comply with
the new newspaper law.
And, last but not least, who will
make the appointment of the one le-
gal newspaper q in Emmons county.
Three men in Bismarck who have new
er seen copy of any one of the EN-
mons county papers unless some gen.
erous editor in the bunch has seen fit
to make them present of copy in
the hopes of playing for that appoint
ment later on. The Record for one
doesn't.
The situation is simply this, and
no one can successfully refute our
statement: Brinton is buying up one
paper in each county. When his list
is complete, he will hand it to his
three side-kickers in Bismarck and
say, Here they are" The printing
commission will take the list and
write across the top of it: ''The fol-
lowing named newspapers are desig-
mated as the official county newspa-
pers for the various counties of this
state"
Is it graft, or not? Can any fair
minded man with any degree of rea-
son question it?
And when the gang have taken
away so much Of our income that we
can't pay expenses we will be forced
to close. Printing machinery, when
sold to secondhand dealer, will not
bring twenty cents on the dollar. In
addition to robbing US by law of a
paying business, built up through or
binary and everyday copmeetition,
we will be left with bunch of Sec
ond-hand printing machinery which
will bring five or six thousand less
than the actual value.
Fine prospect.