The Value of Competition

New York, 1895

The town was recently in need of dockets for the Justices of the Peace, which the law requires them to keep, and bids were asked from the town printers for 25 books, printed and bound. The Standard bid $10 a book; that would have been $250 for the 25 books. THE FARMER bid $37.50 for the 25 books. Now if Republican officeholders had given this work to the Standard, under the resolution of the Republican town committee, there would have been no competition, and the town would have had to pay $250 for what it gets for $37.50. This proves the value of the Town Board's resolution to have all work done by contract.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 11, 1895, p. 1.