Connecticut western news., 1878-04-04
Thursday MOrn'g. Apr. 4, 1878,
NPntOnt Outsides.''


 that they have special calling by Provi- dence to control the entire newspaper busi- ness of the country, work themselves up in to perfect frenzy of rage, and go bowling like demons about s'patent outsides :" de nounclng them as ''disreputable, fraudulent in their pretentions, and unworthy of the name of journalism" etc., while if they would or could see themselves Tn their trut light, they might discover to their amaze ment that their scurilous attempts to beitrl' or injuro these who choose to adopt the cooperative plan, has it's Lru, origtn-not in any reasonable objections tu ''patent Outsides"-but from a want of pat ent insSdss in that part of their physical structure whence thought is supposed to or iRinate. The last howl we have heard comes from the Rondout Fresman-which the Amenia ISmss echoes in it's feeble way, and tries to palm off as an original grunt. It 10 very easy matter for person who is troubled with chronic distemper for fault finding. to ees something wrong in everything that is not constructed with a view to his personal emoument, or is not conducted exactly in accordance with his selfish and contracted ideas. "Decensus Averui facilis, ascensus &ehcilis." It doesn't require any great ability to denounce g thing in c general way as ''disreputable, " etc., but when it comes down to 8 cross-ex- animation and full particulars are demand cd the fault finder frequently finds himself in close quarters. Will the Freeman please Ale . bill of particulars, and give us such specifications as will enable us to under stand wherein the disrepute lies. Awaiting the denouement we will say few words. A "patent outside" (so called) is simply nothing more or less than newspaper, a part of the work on which is cone outside of the office of publication. Is there any thing dlsreputable ln that :? If so, isn't it disreputsble to live in house which you build, the windows, doors, etc., of which you and it to your advantage to buy out ot town, resdy-made? Isn't it disreputable to sit down to your table and eat bread which comes from the baker, when you ought to have it made in your own kitchenl Isn't 1t disreputable for you, Mir. Editor, to sit in your easy editorial chair because it was not made in your office? Couldn't do lt2 Yes you could. You could have hired cabi- net maker to come to your sanctum and work it up. while you kept your Argus eye upon every move of the chisel. plane and hammer. You should have type founder, . manufacturer of printers rollers, a press maker. @ stereotype foundry, forge, pa per mill. and above all & shear factory in your office, and not content with all these you should have 8 corps of professional wri- ters and not make up more than half of your paper every week from clippings from magazines and other newspapers for ''pat- ent outsides" do some clipping, and as near ly as VIC can judge, their selections con- pare favorably with those of the Rondout Freeman, while their summary of foreign and domestic news IS vastly superior. This spasmodic crusade against the cooperative plan of publishing newspapers seems to us ss unreasonable as it is unjust, and to have lad its origin in pure unadulterated selfish ness on the part of the owners ot old estab- lished newspapers, to crush out new news paper enterprises in the territory to which they imagine they have an exclusive right. There is no doubt that every newspaper publisher would prefer to do all the work in his own office, even to casting the type be uses, if he could find it to his interest finan- ciallY to do 80 but to be branded with in fanny because be chooses to hire a part of his work done elsewhere, is a lack of fair ness and justice, which ought to receive the universal condemnation of generous pub- lic.- WolcOttUiUs Register.
 The above article of the Register is to the point and very sensible. The NEWS, as cv- erybody knows, has always been printed on theaco-o operative plan, and we have chosen and continue in this way of doing things for tive reasons: One, and which for the success of 6 newspaper is the most import ant one, is, that our subscribers like the pa- per we give them better than those, both sides of which are printed at the home of ace, for the reason that we give them near y twice the amount of better reading matter than they get by the old plan of publishing paper. The outside pages of the old plan papers are necessarily filled with advertisements of every qusck nos trum in the land, and which they receive at any price they can get in fact will take them for no pay whatever rather than not have them, for they need them to fill the columns of their outside pages, to saUe Ae expense cf putting in type neU matter .tor tAess columns cOery Deek Now then, who will say that the general reader would pre- fer the the columns of his paper filled with of patent pukes, to what he finds in the outside columns of THE NEWS or the Register? where Is recorded in a condensed form all the foreign and domes- tic news of the week. the Goings of Con gress, etc., as well as much of miscellane- ous character, useful. instructive and enter tainingP We said above, that one reason why we continue to make newspaper in this way is because our patrons are better pleased, for we give them more reading matter, fact they will recognize as true Another reason is; we save money by so doing, and these two we think are about as good reasons as would be required for de- termination or decision in relation to which course it would be advisable to pursue. The Amenis Times has been in existence nearly thirty years, and in that time it has changed hands thirty or forty times. The CONN. WEsTERN NEwB is now nearly seven years old, and Is still waiting for the first change in it's proprietorship. It certainly seems as if 6 small dose of "patent outside" would have . sAlutsry effect upon the Times, at least it might sober it down and induce it to hold to one of its proprietors as long as full year without 8 change. That country newspapers published on the cooperative plan are rapidly gaining the ascendency ov- or the old way of doing things, is as true as the fact that the rich, dne and superbly manufactured broadcloths are more popular to-day than the homespun goods made in the homes of "the fathers' a hundred years ago, and like them, will soon entirely su- percede them for the reason they are vast ly better in every respect. The CoNNEoTI- OUT WESTERN NEWS has a much larger cir culation and more first class paying neaos- paper patronage than very many of the pa pers of the surrounding country published