The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-02-03
The, Nelus and Yemld
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
Patent Outsides.

outsides in most approved style as
follows
What are "patent outsides" Like
Radicalism, they came into use
since the war. There are newspa-
pers ostensibly printed in populous
counties, where the county advertis
ing pays well, but really printed at
Cincinnati, Chicago, Nashville, or
some other distant point. The pu-
tative editor has nothing more to do
with the matter which is published
on two of the pages (the first and
fourth) than the man in the moon.
This is selected, prepared and print
ed at headquarters. and furnished
publishers at moderate advance on
the cost of paper. How is this
done ? In the first place, when the
matter is once set up, nh edition is
printed for the ''Bungtown Ranger"
then the title Of the paper, the date
line, the name of the editor, ETC., is
changed--which can be done in q
few minutes. An edition is then
printed for the "Shakorag Enter-
prise" After undergoing similar
changes, this work goes on ud IN
Enitvns, until two or thrco hundred
papers have been printed with differ
ent titles, for different localities and
rs many different publishers. The
expense of type setting, instead Of
being saddlod upon one paper, is
divided among two or three hun
dred. In addition to this the party
furnishing these printed outsides
reserves the right to occupy certain
number of columns with ADVERTISE,
monts. Although inserted at rea-
sonably low rates, they aggregate Il
vast amount in the two or three
hundred papers.
Well, all this is a "cute" Yankee
trick, and not only enables the So
called faux iary" p1bliaher to coin
money, but saves the country editor
the expense Of printing one.half his
paper. Of course, he loses nil con-
troll of that half of it. At headquar.
tors in Chicago or elsewhere, they
put in whatever they please, which
leads to some funny co,,treten,ps.
For example, we saw, not long ago,
in paper edited by m orthodox
preacher, an article on the outside
attempting to prove that the hell re-
ferred to in the Bible was the valley
of Hinaon, near Jerusalem, where
all the offal of the city was deposited
and burned--while the editor, (good,
pious soul y had been preaching
''hell and damnation" all his life
But what of all this /? Have not
publishers the right to buy ready
made newspapers, if they can pre-
vail on the reading public to take
them? BIT county officers hare not
the right to advertise ias them.
Papers with 'ipatent outsides"
have been declared by the courts,
both Of New Jersey and Pennsylva-
nia, to be not proper mediums for
the publication Of legal ADVERTISE
ments, inasmuch as they are not
printed in the county in which the
interest affected by such advertising
exists.
The courts of Georgia will no
doubt hold the same doctrine, when
ever case is brought before them.
The law will never become q party
to fraud. If the Southern Watch-
man, or one-half of it, were printed
in Chicago or Nashville-notwith-
standing the printer there prints
"Athens, Georgia" in the date line,
it would not be compliance with
tho law to publish legal ADVERTISE
ments in it. The thing would bear
upon it's face q fraud-the dato line
printed in Chicago is fraudulent, be-
cause it purports to have been done
in Athens. Our courts cannot toll
crate such frauds unless they
should become as corrupt rs some
of the courts under scalawag and
carpet bag rule-~a thing which
we believe will never occur in Geor-
gia. -
This matter is worthy of consid
Grafton, as these "patent outsides"
are springing up everywhere, and
taking from tho legitimate press Of
the country, which is identified with
the. people in interest, the patronage
which rightfully belongs to it, and
transferring the money wr,mg from
the estates Of widows and orphans
and tho property of unfortunate
debtors to the pockets of their ene-
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