Year: 1871




II is useless to waste words with the Dontphan
Democrat, on the question of County printing. On
grade with the bird that befouls its own nest, is
the man who sets about breaking down his own
bnsness which is scantily enough supported, even
when he tries to maintain halfdecent prices Bnt
we can assure him that he is right upon one point
we win not do the County printing at one cent
below the rates allowed by law, unless forced {"
do SO by some imported rat trying TO "run u.s.
We never have done ii, except in such cases, anu
shall resort to any possible "combnation 10
avoid it. We are one who believes our business
to be respectable and entitled to fair living rates.
That we always shall stand up for, rcgardlessscf
dcmagogue appeals to the dear people in the way oi
bung-hole and spigot economy, or to allow some
man who has got into public position, to get up a
little reputation for economy at our expense.


When we go into politics, We go in; buf when
we do business we leave the politics part ont, and
do not voluntarily starve oursef ont, in orlcr to
compel political opponent to starve himself If
the Democrat man had observed this rule, instead
of the roofing out process, he might have avoided
the upsetting that he got. But he and his back
ers took the wrong measure of their man. They
knew there had been exciting local question i'll
White Cloud, and that the County Commissioner
residing here and oursclf had taken opposite sides
They fancicd that we intended to keep it up and
embrace every opportunity to cut each others
throat, and break up each other in business They
imagined that they had only to come in with
their little proposition, and that this Commissioner
would jump clear out of the water to reach the
bait There is where they got their eye shut up.


We have nothing to say against Mr.. SYMNs, ex-
cept as regards his unjust and uncalled-for war
against living prices to printers for public work.
If he wants to work for his local paper, or If the
paper wants to work for itself, we have no right
to complaint; but we did object to the attempt to
undermine the prices of laboring men, in order to
force them to comply with the notions of man who
has not the least conception of what it costs to
keep up a printing Office. Furthermore, the Dem
ocrat knowingly misrepresents the action OF MI.
MOVES. When the publisher of the Democrat
sneaked in with his proposition, Mr.. MOVES pro-
posed to defer the matter ten days. and notify all
the publishers of the County that bids would be
received. But Mr. SYMNs the publisher of the
Democrat and outside strikers, insisted that their
bid should be accepted then and there, and tried
to force a decision of the question. 1t was then
that Mr.. MOVES said he was authorized to put In
q bid-a right which he certainly possessed as
much as Mr. SYMNs did. Then the Democrat man
tried the game of bluff and got beat at it. There
is where the "jack-leg" business comes in.


The manager of the Doniphan Democrat is not a
printer, and has but little idea of the difficulties
of running country newspapers. We will read
him his horoscope, if he will but heedit That lit
tie bonus of $500 will out, one of these days,
and then he will have to depend upon his earnings
to keep up his paper The people of his town will
sour on subsidies, and will not come down SO lib
orally in the future. The local paper will get to
be an old song it will say something to offend one
portion of the citizens, and there will he a party
or faction in his town who who will throw every
possible stumbling block in the way of his busi-
ness. He will be hard run to raise money to buy
material and pay hands; and at last the concern
will 90 under for want of support. When that
comes to pass, he will not find Mr.. SYMNs reach
ing down into his pocket TO keep the paper going.
He will have had the Of the tool as long rs he
wanted it, and will let it slide. And when the
office is packed up for removal, to start paper in
some aspiring town on the frontier that has lit
tie subsidy to Offer the cranky publisher will have
changed his views on the subject of breaking down
his own prices and business to humor another
mans hobby.