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

NSRDO0s
NJ. G. Cotton appeared and presented
the members Of the association presen
with copies of "ArieI." -- -..-
By Archie Thomas, Springfield Record
ResOIUed, That the Secretary Of this As
ISOLATION be requested to print circular
asking the cooperation of the newspaper
of Tennessee in cur deliberations; tha
said circular have the following question
thereupon: Furnish us with reasons fol
not joining the Tennessee Press Assoeia
tion." , a
2. That he be authorized to draw upoI
the Treasurer for suficieney Of money &c
defray the expenses of printing said circu.
lar and for the stationery; that he be in
structed to inclose stamp for return re
port. Adopted. r-1s
The attention of members was called to
the fact that the Association was not incOr-
porated. -s.rr
Mr.. Baker inquired the Object Of having
the Association incorporated.
Secretary White-Simply that we may
have legal existence. We cannot now
own any property. .e f- .-a "a
Mr.. Baker-We don't want to own any.
Other remarks were made on the subject
by Messrs. Saunders, Jones and Thomas.
THE DELEGATION FROM THE TYPO
GRAPHICAL UNION
arrived. They were, on motion, invited to
occupy seats on the floor of the house.
The delegation consisted of VIM. Amison
and John L. Kirby. Dir. Amison said:
VIII remark, gentlemen of the Press As
ISOLATION, by way of parenthesis, that am
sorry that l do not possess the talent or the
faculty of speaking eXtempore Or i'm
promptu, and while do not hesitate to act
as the representative and mouth-piece OF
Nashville Typographical Union No. 20, 1
do regret that the selection had not fallen
on one more able to advance and support its
views, and place them 10 their proper light
be fore your honorable body, than myself.
Now, sir, wish 10 call your attention 10
the resolutions your humble servant re-
ceived from the Union he has the honor to
represent, and, through him, transmitted
to the Tennessee Press Association Z
l. That the members of this Union are
uncompromisingly opposed to the 'patent
outside'' system, as practieed by several
newspapers of this State.
2. That the Georgia Press Assertion
has unanimously adopted resolutions con-
buG OOJo1OO do
practised in some portions of Georgia, thus
giving strength to our views, and urging US
on in our opposition to the outrage upon
both printers and publishers.
Now, sir, the first proposition states that
we are uncompromisingly opposed to the
patent outside system, and for what rea-
son? ..a..... .#.-
/. 1t is injurious to the public. AdVer-
tisements are the life of a newspaper, and
the use of outsides inevitably tends to the
debasement of their value, and those en-
ploying this system permit the publication
at rates which, if compelled to accept,
would result in irretrieyable ruin. Besides,
the home advertiser has good ground for
complaint, and the right to demand either
reduction in the rates, or consistency in the
charges. So, is it not evident that by this
means the publisher is undermining the very
foundation upon which his business rests.
2. 1t is unjust TO the printer; for, thrown
out of employment By the adoption Of this
system, be is compelled to seek the city,
thereby overstocking the market, reducing
prices and bringing himself and others to
want.
8. 1t is unjust to the boys who supply
the journeymen's places, for upon the expi-
ration of their apprenticeship they are cast
upon the world with a trade, but without
opportunity of plying it. E
4. 1t is unjust 10 the home advertiser;
for, by this system, be is compelled to pay
about ten times the amount that foreign
advertisers are charged for equal space.
5. 1t is unjust to the reader. As adVer-
tisements are the life of the newspaper, so
the local news and selected matter are its
spice; but under this system, which absorbs
two-thirds of the reading columns, the salt
loses its SAVIOR to the taste of the reader,
and becomes unpalatable. The advantages
urged in favor of this system-its cheap
ness, and consequent incentive to new en-
terprises-its typographical excellence-and
the superior quality of the reading matter
furnished--can only be addressed with force
to publisher without a pocket book,
printer without trade, or an editor with
out brain; of whom the first should be pit
led; the second unpatronized; the last con-
temned.
The inconvenience flowing from this sys-
TEN cannot be overlooked. Delay in send
ing the ready print, or hardness in its de-
livery; the circumscribed space allotted TO
local and news matter, which, though the
most important part of a country paper,
cannot be increased, except at the adver-
Users expense; the insertion of articles or
the sentiments or objects of
which the editor cannot approve, are points
that no counter-argument can blunt.
Therefore as drilled members of the craft
Legitimate followers of 'tart-preserVative"
from the bottom round of the ladder, we
claim to have as natural an affinity to the
press 'guild" as any others of the press fra
ternity and to take as just and rightful a
pride in the elevation of the standard of
local Journalism, in our own community as
any others connected with the press, In
lchdteUer capacity. The greatest and most
successful Journalists ofour time and centu-
ry, including one distinguished candidate
now before the country for the highest sta
ton in the gift of the American people,
were sprung from our ranks, were gradu
ates in our college. rE-la.-J
We look upon the system introduced into
our section by adventures and spectators
upon the labor of other men, of furnishing
"patent outsides'' to local presses, by per-
sons who had heretofore spent no part of
their time, labor or money, to the develop
ment of this region, as fraud, not only up
on ourselves and fellow-workmen but also
upon the pnblic, in that it is a system by
which the people are supplied with state
together with patent
medicine advertisements and tie advertise
ments of all classes of charlatans and inn
posters, dished up by wholesale, and serv-
ed to almost the entire weekly press Of the
State, like so many weekly installments of
Hwooden nutmegs." lf
As practical members of the press, we
protest against this innovation for the fol-
lowing reason, lohich ought to appeal to the
journalistic pride and sense Of independence
Of the newspaper profession: ~
That the humiliating fact is presented
that, with few honorable and commend
able exceptions, the press Of our State has
not enough originality to turn out home
made newspapers. 81 it I'd
That there are more patent outsides