New York, 1895
The Pauperized Standard Must Soon Co Under.
B. Frank Wood of Jamaica contributed an article to Sunday's New York World extolling his own virtues and abilities, and his portrait was printed with the article, and he really appeared to advantage. The people will be surprised, however, to learn that he has left the sinking Standard to go to the bottom of the sea.
We copy here what the World printed:
JAMAICA, April 12. — B. Frank Wood, who was elected a Justice of the Peace here last Tuesday, is exceptionally fitted for the position. He is a lawyer and has experience on the bench. He is also a thorough business man, and the interests of the town will not suffer in his hands as a member of the town board. Mr. Wood will not take office until the first day of 1896.
For the past few years he has been the editor of Jamaica's foremost paper, but he retired from the journal just before he was nominated for the office. While he was editor Mr. Wood conducted a vigorous paper and showed up some official abuses.
Personally the new judge is a handsome, jovial man. He has a close-cropped beard and dresses stylishly, is a good conversationalist and has a fund of stories with which he aptly illustrates any subject he may be discussing, He moves in Jamaica's exclusive society.
Mr. Wood was born on Staten Island and lived there for a number of years. He went South when he was a youth and started in business. A few years ago he came to Jamaica and was soon recognized as a progressive man. He will commence the practice of law in the village as soon as he takes office. He came naturally by a judicial mind, as his father was a judge before him.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 19, 1895, p. 1.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Honest Men Assailed for Doing an Honest Act
New York, 1895
The Standard assails the board of Supervisors for having paid Counselor Van Vechten about $7,000 for a year's work as the county's lawyer. The Supervisors, as honest officers, could do no less than pay a reasonable fee to a lawyer who had won damage suits aggregating $194,000, and having saved the county from being compelled to build a $150,000 bridge over Newtown creek at Maspeth avenue, and having attended to all the other legal business of the county for twelve months. Some lawyers would have charged the county $25,000 for their services in the damage suits alone, which grew out of the Blissville bridge disaster, and yet no higher priced lawyer could have been more successful than Mr. Van Vechten was. The Supervisors have not done an unreasonable thing at all.
The Standard's attack on the Supervisors is malicious. The Supervisors are assailed because they do not give the Standard patronage. The reason they do not take kindly to the Standard is that they caught the Standard in an attempt to cheat the county out of $255, which involved false swearing, and, like honest men, they defeated the steal. This dishonesty and false swearing taught the Supervisors not to trust the Standard, but to avoid it, just as every honest man mistrusts and avoids a notoriously dishonest person. Besides, the Supervisors have the common knowledge that the Standard has no facilities for doing public work, but is compelled to sublet work to city offices, where high prices are charged, and the Supervisors are not willing, nor would they be justified, in paying profits to New York printers and the Standard, too, for no better purpose than to keep alive a dishonest political newspaper. We have an honest board of Supervisors, thank goodness, and while we have there will be no robbery of the tax-payers to help political mendicants and pauperized newspapers.
We have at hand this very moment the evidence of the incapacity of the Standard to do public work. The Town Clerk of Jamaica is a Republican. He gave the Standard the work of printing the ballots for the town election. The Standard does not own a numbering machine, and has not the type or the presses to produce election tickets. After ten days' waiting the Standard was obliged to throw the job back on the Town Clerk with the humiliating confession that it could not do the work. Consequently, the Town Clerk was obliged, in order to have the election tickets printed at all, to send his order to THE FARMER, in whose office there are eighteen numbering machines, perforators, and presses of the very best kind. Here is the evidence of the Standard's default:
JAMAICA, L. I., March 23, 1895.
The LONG ISLAND FARMER will please furnish 15,000 official Democratic ballots, 15,000 official Republican ballots, 15,000 resolution ballots "For," 15,000 resolution ballots "Against," 15,000 Democratic excise ballots, 15,000 Republican excise ballots, 200 tally sheets, and 200 cards containing lists of candidates.
JOHN B. McCOOK, Town Clerk.
Now the public can see what a shabby concern the Standard is, and why the Supervisors are justified in ignoring it.
The Standard's malice toward Counselor Van Vechten grows out of the fact that he discovered and exposed the Standard's attempt to cheat the county. If Mr. Van Vechten had kept silent about the Standard's steal he would have the friendship of that dishonest paper, but he preferred to act the part of an honest attorney toward the Supervisors, and the Supervisors preferred to act honestly toward the tax-payers, and so the Supervisors and Mr. Van Vechten must submit to the billingsgate of this discredited newspaper.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 29, 1895, p. 4.
The Standard assails the board of Supervisors for having paid Counselor Van Vechten about $7,000 for a year's work as the county's lawyer. The Supervisors, as honest officers, could do no less than pay a reasonable fee to a lawyer who had won damage suits aggregating $194,000, and having saved the county from being compelled to build a $150,000 bridge over Newtown creek at Maspeth avenue, and having attended to all the other legal business of the county for twelve months. Some lawyers would have charged the county $25,000 for their services in the damage suits alone, which grew out of the Blissville bridge disaster, and yet no higher priced lawyer could have been more successful than Mr. Van Vechten was. The Supervisors have not done an unreasonable thing at all.
The Standard's attack on the Supervisors is malicious. The Supervisors are assailed because they do not give the Standard patronage. The reason they do not take kindly to the Standard is that they caught the Standard in an attempt to cheat the county out of $255, which involved false swearing, and, like honest men, they defeated the steal. This dishonesty and false swearing taught the Supervisors not to trust the Standard, but to avoid it, just as every honest man mistrusts and avoids a notoriously dishonest person. Besides, the Supervisors have the common knowledge that the Standard has no facilities for doing public work, but is compelled to sublet work to city offices, where high prices are charged, and the Supervisors are not willing, nor would they be justified, in paying profits to New York printers and the Standard, too, for no better purpose than to keep alive a dishonest political newspaper. We have an honest board of Supervisors, thank goodness, and while we have there will be no robbery of the tax-payers to help political mendicants and pauperized newspapers.
We have at hand this very moment the evidence of the incapacity of the Standard to do public work. The Town Clerk of Jamaica is a Republican. He gave the Standard the work of printing the ballots for the town election. The Standard does not own a numbering machine, and has not the type or the presses to produce election tickets. After ten days' waiting the Standard was obliged to throw the job back on the Town Clerk with the humiliating confession that it could not do the work. Consequently, the Town Clerk was obliged, in order to have the election tickets printed at all, to send his order to THE FARMER, in whose office there are eighteen numbering machines, perforators, and presses of the very best kind. Here is the evidence of the Standard's default:
JAMAICA, L. I., March 23, 1895.
The LONG ISLAND FARMER will please furnish 15,000 official Democratic ballots, 15,000 official Republican ballots, 15,000 resolution ballots "For," 15,000 resolution ballots "Against," 15,000 Democratic excise ballots, 15,000 Republican excise ballots, 200 tally sheets, and 200 cards containing lists of candidates.
JOHN B. McCOOK, Town Clerk.
Now the public can see what a shabby concern the Standard is, and why the Supervisors are justified in ignoring it.
The Standard's malice toward Counselor Van Vechten grows out of the fact that he discovered and exposed the Standard's attempt to cheat the county. If Mr. Van Vechten had kept silent about the Standard's steal he would have the friendship of that dishonest paper, but he preferred to act the part of an honest attorney toward the Supervisors, and the Supervisors preferred to act honestly toward the tax-payers, and so the Supervisors and Mr. Van Vechten must submit to the billingsgate of this discredited newspaper.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 29, 1895, p. 4.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Cracker Frank the Gouger
New York, 1895
Cracker Frank of the Standard is very much concerned about the welfare of the tax-payers, quite in the same way that a hypocrite is concerned about salvation. The tax-payers must not be bled, unless Cracker Frank does the bleeding. Cracker Frank has tried to do some bleeding. When detected, exposed and defeated in an attempt to cheat the county out of $255, he tries to cover his own offense from view by crying out against some honest person who has committed no offense. The Cracker's attempt to extort money from the county was detected by the board of Supervisors and defeated. At once he made a target of the Supervisors. When the Town Board of Jamaica concluded to economize by having public work, including printing, done by contract, Cracker Frank raised a howl against the town officers. If the Cracker were really sincere he would welcome these methods, take his chances along with the other printers, and be good natured. He is against doing public printing by contract, consequently he is against the true welfare of the tax-payers. The reason he is against open competition is that he cannot compete with well equipped printing offices, his own office, so called, being a miserable little affair and incompetently conducted. In the competition for election printing he imitated the barn yard fowl vulgarly called the Dunghill — he sneaked and did not bid at all. He was no more in it for the tax-payers this time than when he tried to gouge the county out of $255. He used every influence, good and bad that he could bring to bear to induce Town Clerk McCook and Justice Kissam, both Republicans, to get the printing without competition, going so far as to bring Boss Youngs of Oyster Bay and sub-Boss Wallace of Freeport here to bulldoze and threaten the Town Clerk into being a party to a job to fleece the tax-payers. A nice thing, this alcoholized Cracker, to be parading his hypocritical sympathy for tax-payers.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 4.
Note: In one of the references to "Cracker Frank" they said "Cranker," an obvious typo. Frank is B. Frank Wood, "proprietor" of The Jamaica Standard, The Farmer's arch-rival. I put "proprietor" in quotes because of this curious article, "Woods' Name Is Down." There's also a little more about their relationship in this article, Malicious Attacks and Their Motive.
Cracker Frank of the Standard is very much concerned about the welfare of the tax-payers, quite in the same way that a hypocrite is concerned about salvation. The tax-payers must not be bled, unless Cracker Frank does the bleeding. Cracker Frank has tried to do some bleeding. When detected, exposed and defeated in an attempt to cheat the county out of $255, he tries to cover his own offense from view by crying out against some honest person who has committed no offense. The Cracker's attempt to extort money from the county was detected by the board of Supervisors and defeated. At once he made a target of the Supervisors. When the Town Board of Jamaica concluded to economize by having public work, including printing, done by contract, Cracker Frank raised a howl against the town officers. If the Cracker were really sincere he would welcome these methods, take his chances along with the other printers, and be good natured. He is against doing public printing by contract, consequently he is against the true welfare of the tax-payers. The reason he is against open competition is that he cannot compete with well equipped printing offices, his own office, so called, being a miserable little affair and incompetently conducted. In the competition for election printing he imitated the barn yard fowl vulgarly called the Dunghill — he sneaked and did not bid at all. He was no more in it for the tax-payers this time than when he tried to gouge the county out of $255. He used every influence, good and bad that he could bring to bear to induce Town Clerk McCook and Justice Kissam, both Republicans, to get the printing without competition, going so far as to bring Boss Youngs of Oyster Bay and sub-Boss Wallace of Freeport here to bulldoze and threaten the Town Clerk into being a party to a job to fleece the tax-payers. A nice thing, this alcoholized Cracker, to be parading his hypocritical sympathy for tax-payers.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 4.
Note: In one of the references to "Cracker Frank" they said "Cranker," an obvious typo. Frank is B. Frank Wood, "proprietor" of The Jamaica Standard, The Farmer's arch-rival. I put "proprietor" in quotes because of this curious article, "Woods' Name Is Down." There's also a little more about their relationship in this article, Malicious Attacks and Their Motive.
Malicious Attacks and Their Motive
New York, 1895
In the Standard last week appeared an editorial attack on Counselor Van Vechten and Justice Lester which was prompted by malice against Mr. Van Vechten and by politics and malice against Mr. Lester. It was in the essence dirty business. Mr. Van Vechten's bill against the town for $1,500 for legal services was made an excuse for the attack on him, and because Justice Lester did not oppose the audit of the bill the fact is made use of to attack him. The Standard's malice against Mr. Van Vechten grows out of the fact that, as counsel to the board of Supervisors, he detected the Standard in an attempt to cheat the county out of $255, and defeated it. It is for this honest act that he is assailed. Had he permitted the Standard to accomplish its steal of county money, the Standard would fawn upon him as it does upon others who have winked at its crooked work.
The Standard attacks Justice Lester in the hope of injuring him with the people and to make votes for B. Frank Wood, who expects to run on the Republican ticket for Justice of the Peace, with the probability that Mr. Lester will be the Democratic nominee. The Standard's malice against Justice Lester grows out of the fact that he, as a member of the Town Board, favored the contract system for public printing, to the end that the public departments shall be supplied at the least possible expense. It has proved a good thing for the people, but a bad thing for the Standard, as in every competition for work the Standard has been beaten. So the people will see that Mr. Lester is assailed for having honestly performed a public duty, the same as Mr. Van Vechten is assailed for having prevented an extortion of public money.
As an act of simple justice THE FARMER is bound to say that Mr. Van Vechten's bill is not unreasonable. It covers a period of fifteen months, and is in full for all services. There was a vast amount of work to perform and there are lawyers in the town who would not have done the work for the same sum. In the Town Hall condemnation proceedings the court made Counselor Monfort, who appeared for Mrs. Denton and Mr. Herzog, an allowance of $450, and his clients probably paid him $500 more, and yet Mr. Van Vechten is attacked for asking $1,500 for services extending over fifteen months. The malice which underlies the attack destroys the force of it.
The public will not have failed to observe that Justice Lester is the only town officer attacked for auditing the lawyer's bill. This shows again the malice and political intrigue of the Standard. There were five members of the Town Board present, two of them Republicans, and the motion to audit the bill was seconded by a Republican, Mr. Kissam. These facts were suppressed by the Standard because suppression was necessary to its game of falsification and deception to injure Mr. Lester. The Standard did not stop to think that it could not put Mr. Lester in a false position without at the same time making the Republican officers keep company with him, and injuring them in the same measure that it injured Justice Lester. If Mr. Van Vechten's bill would not bear inspection and criticism, it goes without saying that it would not have been presented for audit two weeks before election.
There has been nothing in journalism or politics in recent years so despicable as this. If every man who does his duty honestly and fearlessly is to be maliciously assailed the public welfare is threatened and anarchy and fraud usurps the place of reason and morality.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 4.
Note: There's a poem about some of this, called "The Man From Georgia," at this link. Just going by the poem and the above article and this other article, the man from Georgia was B. Frank Wood, recently the "proprietor" of The Jamaica Standard, the Farmer's arch rival. Obviously the Farmer preferred Justice Lester as J.P., predicting, "After January next" Lester's name will have after it, "J.P."!
In the Standard last week appeared an editorial attack on Counselor Van Vechten and Justice Lester which was prompted by malice against Mr. Van Vechten and by politics and malice against Mr. Lester. It was in the essence dirty business. Mr. Van Vechten's bill against the town for $1,500 for legal services was made an excuse for the attack on him, and because Justice Lester did not oppose the audit of the bill the fact is made use of to attack him. The Standard's malice against Mr. Van Vechten grows out of the fact that, as counsel to the board of Supervisors, he detected the Standard in an attempt to cheat the county out of $255, and defeated it. It is for this honest act that he is assailed. Had he permitted the Standard to accomplish its steal of county money, the Standard would fawn upon him as it does upon others who have winked at its crooked work.
The Standard attacks Justice Lester in the hope of injuring him with the people and to make votes for B. Frank Wood, who expects to run on the Republican ticket for Justice of the Peace, with the probability that Mr. Lester will be the Democratic nominee. The Standard's malice against Justice Lester grows out of the fact that he, as a member of the Town Board, favored the contract system for public printing, to the end that the public departments shall be supplied at the least possible expense. It has proved a good thing for the people, but a bad thing for the Standard, as in every competition for work the Standard has been beaten. So the people will see that Mr. Lester is assailed for having honestly performed a public duty, the same as Mr. Van Vechten is assailed for having prevented an extortion of public money.
As an act of simple justice THE FARMER is bound to say that Mr. Van Vechten's bill is not unreasonable. It covers a period of fifteen months, and is in full for all services. There was a vast amount of work to perform and there are lawyers in the town who would not have done the work for the same sum. In the Town Hall condemnation proceedings the court made Counselor Monfort, who appeared for Mrs. Denton and Mr. Herzog, an allowance of $450, and his clients probably paid him $500 more, and yet Mr. Van Vechten is attacked for asking $1,500 for services extending over fifteen months. The malice which underlies the attack destroys the force of it.
The public will not have failed to observe that Justice Lester is the only town officer attacked for auditing the lawyer's bill. This shows again the malice and political intrigue of the Standard. There were five members of the Town Board present, two of them Republicans, and the motion to audit the bill was seconded by a Republican, Mr. Kissam. These facts were suppressed by the Standard because suppression was necessary to its game of falsification and deception to injure Mr. Lester. The Standard did not stop to think that it could not put Mr. Lester in a false position without at the same time making the Republican officers keep company with him, and injuring them in the same measure that it injured Justice Lester. If Mr. Van Vechten's bill would not bear inspection and criticism, it goes without saying that it would not have been presented for audit two weeks before election.
There has been nothing in journalism or politics in recent years so despicable as this. If every man who does his duty honestly and fearlessly is to be maliciously assailed the public welfare is threatened and anarchy and fraud usurps the place of reason and morality.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 4.
Note: There's a poem about some of this, called "The Man From Georgia," at this link. Just going by the poem and the above article and this other article, the man from Georgia was B. Frank Wood, recently the "proprietor" of The Jamaica Standard, the Farmer's arch rival. Obviously the Farmer preferred Justice Lester as J.P., predicting, "After January next" Lester's name will have after it, "J.P."!
Wood's Name Is Down.
New York, 1895
NO LONGER PROMINENT ON THE STANDARD'S FIRST PAGE.
The Newspaper Is Still Alive, but the Public Do Not Know Who is Responsible for It — Some Things That Seem Very Queer.
The following used to be displayed conspicuously on the first page of the Jamaica Standard:
THE JAMAICA STANDARD.
JAMAICA, QUEENS CO., N. Y
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
—BY—
B. FRANK WOOD, PROPRIETOR.
B. Frank Wood's name no longer appears anywhere in the Standard. This is very queer. Taking down his name would not save him from prosecution for having tried to get $275 from the county, through an audit by the board of Supervisors, when entitled to but $20, which wrong was prevented by Counselor Van Vechten, who saw that it was a steal.
A fortnight ago THE FARMER announced that a New York paper manufacturing company had instructed their counsel to bring an action against the Standard to recover pay for goods delivered to Mr. Wood. The Standard was not responsible for the debt, the property being owned by a corporation, who leased the plant to Mr. Wood. He was personally responsible for the debt. The bill was finally paid. Taking his name out of the paper would not help him against his creditors.
The Standard has received from the town of Jamaica money to which it was not entitled. Perhaps the Town Board will demand the return of the money by Mr. Wood. Removing his name from the paper would make no difference as to his liability to the town. The corporation owning the Standard would not be responsible.
The Standard at present stands in an uncertain relation to the business world. It Mr. Wood is no longer responsible for utterances of the paper, or the conduct of the office, who is? There is not a line in the paper to indicate that the company of owners have resumed possession, control and responsibility. This is all wrong in a business sense. Business men, when they are asked to sell goods on time, are entitled to know whether Mr. Wood or the corporation is the responsible party. One might shift responsibility to the other.
When Mr. Wood, as lessee, put his name up as proprietor, he did an act that was very misleading. Proprietorship means ownership. He took the corporation name down then. But now, when he has taken his name down, he has not put the corporation name up. So the concern is afloat without captain or compass. Mr. Wood says he has lost $3,500 keeping the paper alive. If it is true, he cannot be blamed for wanting to remove his name as the responsible party. If the corporation has taken charge again, a statement to that effect should be made.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 1.
NO LONGER PROMINENT ON THE STANDARD'S FIRST PAGE.
The Newspaper Is Still Alive, but the Public Do Not Know Who is Responsible for It — Some Things That Seem Very Queer.
The following used to be displayed conspicuously on the first page of the Jamaica Standard:
THE JAMAICA STANDARD.
JAMAICA, QUEENS CO., N. Y
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
—BY—
B. FRANK WOOD, PROPRIETOR.
B. Frank Wood's name no longer appears anywhere in the Standard. This is very queer. Taking down his name would not save him from prosecution for having tried to get $275 from the county, through an audit by the board of Supervisors, when entitled to but $20, which wrong was prevented by Counselor Van Vechten, who saw that it was a steal.
A fortnight ago THE FARMER announced that a New York paper manufacturing company had instructed their counsel to bring an action against the Standard to recover pay for goods delivered to Mr. Wood. The Standard was not responsible for the debt, the property being owned by a corporation, who leased the plant to Mr. Wood. He was personally responsible for the debt. The bill was finally paid. Taking his name out of the paper would not help him against his creditors.
The Standard has received from the town of Jamaica money to which it was not entitled. Perhaps the Town Board will demand the return of the money by Mr. Wood. Removing his name from the paper would make no difference as to his liability to the town. The corporation owning the Standard would not be responsible.
The Standard at present stands in an uncertain relation to the business world. It Mr. Wood is no longer responsible for utterances of the paper, or the conduct of the office, who is? There is not a line in the paper to indicate that the company of owners have resumed possession, control and responsibility. This is all wrong in a business sense. Business men, when they are asked to sell goods on time, are entitled to know whether Mr. Wood or the corporation is the responsible party. One might shift responsibility to the other.
When Mr. Wood, as lessee, put his name up as proprietor, he did an act that was very misleading. Proprietorship means ownership. He took the corporation name down then. But now, when he has taken his name down, he has not put the corporation name up. So the concern is afloat without captain or compass. Mr. Wood says he has lost $3,500 keeping the paper alive. If it is true, he cannot be blamed for wanting to remove his name as the responsible party. If the corporation has taken charge again, a statement to that effect should be made.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 1.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The Man From Georgia
New York, 1895
There was a man from Georgia,
Who came into this town,
And into an editor's chair
He sat himself right down.
And when he felt himself secure,
He picketh up his pen,
And wrote a screed unto the poor,
About some naughty men.
Not that he did give a —,
For the dear public or any man
His only thought, "How nice 'twill be
"When after my name I write "J. P."
He thinks the public thus to fool,
That you and I will be his tool,
To help him in his great ambition,
Prithee! Pity for this politician.
Now to this man so full of guile
We beg to say, "Just wait awhile,
"And you will see, that Lester he,
"After January next will write J. P."
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 8.
There was a man from Georgia,
Who came into this town,
And into an editor's chair
He sat himself right down.
And when he felt himself secure,
He picketh up his pen,
And wrote a screed unto the poor,
About some naughty men.
Not that he did give a —,
For the dear public or any man
His only thought, "How nice 'twill be
"When after my name I write "J. P."
He thinks the public thus to fool,
That you and I will be his tool,
To help him in his great ambition,
Prithee! Pity for this politician.
Now to this man so full of guile
We beg to say, "Just wait awhile,
"And you will see, that Lester he,
"After January next will write J. P."
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 8.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saving Money for the County
New York, 1895
The Standard says that THE FARMER gets $10,000 a year out of the county for public printing and advertising. That's right. And we give the county full value for its money. This the Standard does not deny. We printed election ballots for $5 per 1,000, and the Standard charged $10 per 1,000 for ballots that it had printed in the city, but the Supervisors refused to pay the Standard's price and cut its bill down to THE FARMER'S price of $5. The Standard lost some money, of course, but then the Supervisors are not obliged to subject the county to extortion to keep a pauperized newspaper alive. Only very recently the Standard tried to extort $275 from the county when legally it was entitled to but $20. Only last week the Standard succeeded in euchering the town of Jamaica. The paper has got to do this sort of thing or go out of existence. It has no facilities for doing public work, and therefore has to sublet its work to high-priced offices in the city, and that is why its prices are so frightfully high. The town has to pay two profits instead of one. The Standard's jealousy of THE FARMER'S unexcelled equipment does not lessen as its condition wanes more and more toward final extinction.
A corrupt newspaper is a public curse. In the latter part of the old year the Good Government Club of Newtown preferred charges of corruption against the commissioners of excise, had them indicted, and then asked Judge Garretson to remove them from office. The Jamaica Standard made a shameful attack on the Good Government Club in the interest of the accused officials. Well, they have had a fair trial before Judge Garretson, and his Honor finds them guilty and removes them from office. This decision of the court is a stinging rebuke to the Standard and a complete vindication of the Good Government Club. If there is any crime the Standard would not defend for petty gain, we wish some one would name it.
The Standard attacked the board of Supervisors last week. That paper is down on the Supervisors, individually and collectively, because they cut its skin bill of $275 down to $20. Honest officials can easily bear the malicious abuse of a dishonest newspaper.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 1, 1895, p. 4.
The Standard says that THE FARMER gets $10,000 a year out of the county for public printing and advertising. That's right. And we give the county full value for its money. This the Standard does not deny. We printed election ballots for $5 per 1,000, and the Standard charged $10 per 1,000 for ballots that it had printed in the city, but the Supervisors refused to pay the Standard's price and cut its bill down to THE FARMER'S price of $5. The Standard lost some money, of course, but then the Supervisors are not obliged to subject the county to extortion to keep a pauperized newspaper alive. Only very recently the Standard tried to extort $275 from the county when legally it was entitled to but $20. Only last week the Standard succeeded in euchering the town of Jamaica. The paper has got to do this sort of thing or go out of existence. It has no facilities for doing public work, and therefore has to sublet its work to high-priced offices in the city, and that is why its prices are so frightfully high. The town has to pay two profits instead of one. The Standard's jealousy of THE FARMER'S unexcelled equipment does not lessen as its condition wanes more and more toward final extinction.
A corrupt newspaper is a public curse. In the latter part of the old year the Good Government Club of Newtown preferred charges of corruption against the commissioners of excise, had them indicted, and then asked Judge Garretson to remove them from office. The Jamaica Standard made a shameful attack on the Good Government Club in the interest of the accused officials. Well, they have had a fair trial before Judge Garretson, and his Honor finds them guilty and removes them from office. This decision of the court is a stinging rebuke to the Standard and a complete vindication of the Good Government Club. If there is any crime the Standard would not defend for petty gain, we wish some one would name it.
The Standard attacked the board of Supervisors last week. That paper is down on the Supervisors, individually and collectively, because they cut its skin bill of $275 down to $20. Honest officials can easily bear the malicious abuse of a dishonest newspaper.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 1, 1895, p. 4.
Friday, May 16, 2008
How Tax-Payers are Fleeced
New York, 1895
The Standard charged the town $75 for 12,000 tax bills. THE FARMER printed 15,500 for $45. See how the tax-payers are fleeced.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 1, 1895, p. 1.
The Standard charged the town $75 for 12,000 tax bills. THE FARMER printed 15,500 for $45. See how the tax-payers are fleeced.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 1, 1895, p. 1.
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