The Standard Out of Temper

New York, 1895

Giving Way to Anger When Compelled to Compete for Public Work.

The Standard is very mad. The Town Board passed a resolution to have all public printing and official supplies furnished under contract. This was done at the suggestion of Republican officeholders, who had been bored almost to death by patronage hunters. These Republican officeholders had been censured by the Republican town committee for not giving their orders to a Republican printing office, which meant the Standard. These officers gave their work to the office that could do it best and for the least money. This action in the interest of economy was not pleasing to the Republican committee and the Republicans who own Standard stock.

A representative of the Standard went to Supervisor Everitt and complained that the passage of the resolution to throw the work open to competition would place all the work in one office. He meant THE FARMER office. The Supervisor said: "Why, not at all. The Standard office has a chance to bid for the work the same as every other office, and if the Standard can do the work cheaper than any other office, then the Standard will get all the work."

The representative of the Standard said his office could not do work as cheaply as THE FARMER office did it, because the Standard has not the facilities, being scantily supplied with type and having no first class presses.

Of course this is the truth. The Standard "farms out" nearly all of its work to city offices. Consequently two offices are getting profit out of it. THE FARMER does all kinds of work right on the premises. We have five splendid presses, one alone costing $2,800, and we run them by steam, and cut paper by steam, and we tons upon tons of type, having added....

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 4, 1895, p. 1.

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