Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-02-18
PArENr oursIDIs.

The Pine Bluff Press is having a
lively little wal with a number of other
papers in that State having what is com.
monty termed patent ouipides-that is
u side printed away from home. The
Press raises tie point, and sustains it
with great ability, that legal notices pub
lishsd in such papers are null and void,
as the law requires legal notices to ap.
pear in papers published within certain
bounds, and that patent outsides being
only half published at home and half at
some distant city cannot place them.
selves within the requirements Of the
law. The Press publishes an opinion
having a direct bearing on the subject
delivered by Mr.. Justice Field, OF the
United States Supreme Court, which
seems to settle the matter as far as United
States government notices are concerned.
Each State ba3 its own laws on the sub.
ject, and perhaps No two are alike. Ar.
kansas has q Law which seems 10 shut out
the Iatent outside from State or county
legal notices very efectually. The Press
says:
The word publish" is synonymous
with announce" proclaim" pro
mulgate." Il is not a OF the
word " print" ITO print" means, &C.
cording to Webster, to take the form of
letters or characters by impression. It
is the mechanical work preparatory to
publication. Laws are published by
printing or proclamation. The legisla-
ture prescribes the mode. Our legisla.
ture, in the act Of February 10, 1875,
prescribes the medium through which
legal notices are given to the public.
The law Of 1874 only required that the
newspaper be published in the State or
in the county, according to the circum.
stances Of the case. The paper. under
that law, might be wholly or partially
printed in another State. The only re.
quirement was that the distribution
Should take place where the rights and
il terests were being considered or ef
ltcted.
This law enabled certain newspapers
to transfer their printing establishments
TO st. Louis and Memphis, while their
sanctums were turned into news.depots
and intelligence offices. Patent out
sides" aud patent insides" flooded the
country. Editors, so called, became The
agents Of foreiEn.printed papers falsely
purporting to have been printed at home
Home industry was discouraged TO ado
10 the gain of edited newspaper manu-
factories abroad.
The law of February 10, 1875, rene
dies this discrimination against HON,
labor. 1t negatives what the former Law
seemed to authorize, and OF which due
advantage was taken to the great de,ri
ment of public interests. The law saws
in so many words, that the paper shall
be printed in the State or in the county,
etc. Now, if one.fourth or one. half of 9
paper is printed in Missouri or Tennes
see, and the rest at home, this does no
bring the paper within the statute o.
Arkansas, which provides for a newspa
per printed in the State, in coutradis
t%inetion to one printed abroad.
Our law, ss it now existe, provides 70.
something more than the publication il
the county-the paper must be printed
where the publication is made.
This is a question which concerns
great many people, besides the publish
ers OF patent outsidel, and when it il
raised in court, as i may be to iuvali
date the decisions Of courts, and re.oper
laW.snits, it may cause endless troublI
and litigation.