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Show UNCLE SAM, CHISELER. Country printers, who for more than half a century have suffered from government competition in the printing of envelopes, can hardly be blamed for looking askance at NRA codes and their pretensions to the elimination of "chiseling." The case against Uncle Sam is ably set forth in an editorial in the Hayti, S. D., Herald-Enterprise, which says: "After all, a printer is but human, and he ought not be criticized too severely if he froths at the mouth upon receipt of a letter from a concern con-cern which proudly floats the blue eagle but transports its message in a cut-price government envelope. The government is now engaged in an undertaking un-dertaking to effect and enforce cedns of fair competition forevery business in the country and yet it cont'nuas to print envelopes in competition with the printers of the country at a price that is not only le?s than the printer can purchase blank stock for, but it is even less than the government asks the printer for the postage n-'cessary to transport the envelopes a few miles. In many ways thtre :s no bigger big-ger chiseler in the country than the government itse.lf." |