Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1900 — A Money-Saving Proposition. [ARTICLE]

A Money-Saving Proposition.

Marshall says that he has, some time, published legals for Jasper county at one-half the rate fixed by law. Of course no one believes this for a moment, but, as he claims to have been so generous, we will not be out-done in generosity, and we hope he will ch erfully acquiesce to, the proposition we are going to make, and, not raise any howl if the officers whose duty it is to have these publication made accept our offer. It is now about time for the annual publication of the delinquent tax list. Marshall has had the publishing of this for many years and has been paid from SBO to S2OO per year for it. We propose and hereby offer to do this work the coming year for $25, about J what it usually costs. We will ako publish all commissioners’ and circuit court allowances for 2 cents for each allowance —Marshall gets 5 cents. We will also agree to publish all legal notices required by the city of Rensselaer and usually published in the Apologist for the legal rates for such publications. We agree to do this work tii a better and more workmanlike maimer than usually done by the Apologist. If this proposition is accepted by the proper officers it will effects saving of many hundreds of dollars each year to the taxpayers of Jasper county and of Rensselaer. Of course, this offer may appear “unprofessional,” but it is no more so than was the Apologist man’s going before the board of commissioners and trying to get them to cut down the honest bill of a business competitor simply because he (the Applogi.st man) didn’t get the work, •or of his seeking to make the people believe the said competitor robbed the public by charging the exact rates fixed by law in a legal publication, again simply because he and the cow-puncher didn’t get the publication. We make the above proposition in good faith and assure the public and the officers who have this work done that we will carry it out to the letter. As The Democrat reaches many more readers iu Jasper c<?unty than the Apologist, the interests of the public are best subserved by placing the advertising in its columns, anyway.