Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-08

| pTlnteu III LDlS Otdle, IN proportion 10 pop
ulation, than in any other. State of The
Union, which is humiliating commentary
upon the incapacity of Tennessee press to
| prove itself self-sustaining,
That these 'apdteRt OtItSideS" are of for
eign importation, for the procurement OF
which money is taken out Of the State
which should be spent IN our midst, to the
maintenance of the wives and children OF
home workmen.
That our local press, to command respect,
should be not only homemade, but original,
even il the necessities of the publisher com
pei him to issue but half sheet.
That the issuance of the stale miscellany
| to an editors patrons, when that matter Is
secondhand, and identically the same as
that dished out to almost ever other week
| " paper in the State, is fagrant imposi-
ton upon the subscriber, and at the same
time, throws out of employment practical
printers, who have spent the best years of
their life acquiring an honest trade, only,
by this innovation of foreign spectators, to
be forced to emigrate from their own
homes to seek employment and food for
their families in other States. ~
That the proprietor in exacting establish
ed rates for his advertising and subscription,
and iustifying it upon the pretext of having
to make such large outlay for composition
preaching weekly homilies to the public to
'pay the poor printer'-is not acting in
good faith by the real ''pCor printers or the
public, in enriching himself and the ''patent
outside" peddler at the expense Of both
printer and public. t
1t is the custom of both editor and pro
prietOr of the weekly journal to lecture his
subscribers after this fashion: s
"We try TO give Quid pro quo for your
money. Our expenditures are enormous.
Cash has to be paid for everything done for
US. Our printers, pressnnen, mailing clerk,
office boys have to be paid every week, and
it takes money, considerably more than
some men imagine, to meet current Office
expenses. While we have the Savings
Bank in our front, we have not bank at
our back to meet our bills" 15E .
And yet, you do not say to your subseri-
bers that the greater part of your reading
matter is furnished to you ''ready-made,"
like cheap slop-shOp work of pawn
broker ready made clothing establishment,
while the printers you do not pay are seek
ing work elsewhere.
There is no reason why the country sub
scribers to country weeklies should be any
more willing TO the imposition Of second
hand, ready-made, wooden-nutmeg reading
matter, than that the city reader of the city
daily newspaper should submit to q like i'm
position. 1t is a false economy on the part
of the publisher, and the folly Of the vain
ambition to assume the virtue of printing
a large paper full Of stale matter, when an
intelligent public would better appreciate
h.. fe
as desirable to the reader as quantity. The
publisher who preachers TO the pablo to
keep their money at home, should them
selves practice what they preach. fa
We, therefore, as printers regularly APP
pIenticed lCorkeTS on the press; practical
members of the journalistic calling, with all
respect, yet with all earnestness, appeal TO
you,tO abandon customs at once degrading
to the journalism ofour State whose interests
you have often professed to have at heart
Mr.. Emack-I move the reference of the
whole matter to committee ofthre9, to be
appointed by the chair, carried. Tie chair
appointed: Messrs. PuTVis, of the Nashville
Bonner, White, of the Lebanon Herald and
T. FL. Baker, of the Huntingdon Democrat.
Mr.. Baskerville this delegation is here
from the Typographical Union would
like - .rHea E-s
Mr.. White-I desire to be excused. l
prefer not to serve on that committee
On motion Mr.. Emack was appointed in
stead of Mr.. White. ~ -.+a v
Mr.. Baker had the following read: "The
membership of this association shall con
sist exclusively of such persons as shall be
either editors or proprietors of periodical
publications issued in the State of TenneS-
see." r n
President Kirby Ito Mr.. Baker,: "Are
you in favor of the patent outsides ?"
Mr.. Bakers reply: 81 am, most de-
cidedly." -oy trr &
The association then adjourned.
- Previous to holding the meeting the mem
bers visited the Penitentiary, and were
escorted about that Institution by its Off
GERS. After the adjournment of the meet
ing they proceeded, by invitation, to the
of Aessrs. Chatham &
Kinney to express an important opinion.