The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-07-19
PATENT DAILY-WEEKLIES VS.. PA
TENT OUTSDES.

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TENT OUTSIDES.
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From the Southern Press.
In the last issue of the Press we took
occasion TO shadow forth the practical
results which would necessarily follow
the adoption of the policy recommended
by the Nashville Typographical Union
to the country publishers, in their late
raid into the Editorial Convention. In
that article, among other things, we
said
The Inauguration of such a policy
would certainly prove very good thing
for the Banner and Union and ADaeri-
can, in whose interest these directors
We're doubtless acting, because the
fewer excellent country papers, the lar
ger would be the circulation of their
own weeklies, and the greater their
political influence i'm the State. No
sensible man can discover any other
practical result that could possibly fol-
low the adoption of the plan so rudely
thrust upon the late Editorial Conven-
ton.
We recur to the subject now to show
that we are not singular in the above
view. Ny. N. Il. Buck, the owner and
editor of the Murfreesboro Monitor, is
one of the best practical printers in the
State, and what he don't know about
publishing o country paper, is not
worth knowing. In q recent article on
the Press Convention, he takes up and
discusses the ''patent outside" business
in connection with the country publish
ing interest in this State, in most clear
and forcible manner, and as he is a
practical printer-as are also most of
the country publishers and feels every
possible sympathy with the Topographic
cal Union, we commend his utterances
to all men seeking light upon the SUBJ
iect. Let the enemies of the "Patent
Outsides T" hear and heed Mr.. Buck.
He says:
We hope the press of the State will
give this subject their attention. AS
for ourselves, we are decidedly of the
opinion that there are two sides to this
question, but think that the Printers
Union takes quite one-sided view OF
it. We are a friend to the printers
and intend to stand by them. But this
'.'patent outside system" has sprung
Into existence, and it is now simply
impossible to do away with it. The
publishers of the ddily-city papers are
in great measure responsible for Tho
adoption Of the system by country pub.
fishers. They issue the mammoth
'patent" dday-weeklies for less than il
is possible TO furnish large home
made country paper. This fact ap-
pears to have been overlooked by oul
typographical friends. The daily pa.
pers are very ferocious in their denun.
Citations of the patent outside system
because it interferes with the circula.
ton of their mammoth patent daily
weeklies, on sCi,ich the printer does no
hare a Tine Of composition. If the pat
ent outside system was abandoned
most of the publishers that are now
printing nine columns to a page paper
would be compelled to reduce them t.
six or seven columns, and eventually
be run out of the business altogether
by the mammoth patent ddil,r
wceklies. Country publishers are
compelled to publish large papers
simply because the large patent daily
weeklies have created a demand fol-
them. We hare never get heard n sub
scriber complain Of the patent outside
system. On the contrary ace arc forced
to adopt the plan by our su5cribers
who complained that we did not give
them enough miscellaneous reading
matter, and they were wont to compare
our paper to the large patent DAILY
aceektios of Nashville. As to the COM
plant that the patent Ourside deprives
country editors of sufficient space fol
local matter, it is only necessary ,to
state that there is not one paper in
twenty, published in Tennessee, thai
has its inside columns well filled with
local reading.
But the cause of complaint, on tho
part of the printers, is that the patent
outside system throws great many OF
their fellow craftsmen out of employ
ment. We are inclined to believe, from
careful study of the subject, that this
COMPLAINTS not very well founded
Very few papers that use patent out.
sides are able to employ and pay g
jOurneyman if compelled to abandon
the system. They would be forced to
reduce the size of their papers, which
would benefit no one but the publishers
Of the mammoth patent DAILY-aOeeklies
We are IN full sympathy with the
Printers Union, but we fear that the
patent system has too firm hold upon
the country press for them to abolish it.
1t isnow beyond their control. In fact
even the publishers themselves have
no longer the power to abolish the
system. But if the effort is to be made
the first naoue should DC TO suppress the
mammoth "pdtelt" DAILY-UeekLie,
sent broadcast OUer the country IN
city publishers.
In nine eases out of ten, the propri-
etors of country newspaper are spend
ing all the money they are able 10
spend on their papers, and to force
them TO change their system, world
SIMPLY be TO force them to sus-
pend publication, and as they are gen.
orally practical printers, they would
then have 10 flock to the cities to make
a living. The system has become Sc
firmly engrafted upon the country
press of the United States, that it is
now beyond the power of printers OF
publishers, or both combined, to abolish
1t; and therefore i'm simple language
"what can't be cured must be en-
dured."