Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-23
Ist. Cloud Times.I
1Talk on "Patent Insfdes."


The Argus is not half large enough. Sub
scribe at once and we will print both sides at
home.-Todd County Argus.
Now we will venture the assertion that II
both sides of the Argus were printed at
home, there would be general dissatisfac-
tion among it's country readers. We could
we'll afford to print both sides of our paper
ourselves, but, by having one side printed on
the cooperative or patent plan, we are en-
abled to furnish our readers twice as much
reading matter and one-half more news than
we could do by setting all our own type. We
lately noticed boastful article in the Fergus
Falls Jour al, announcing great improve
ment because in chad discarded patent in
ards" We turned to look for the s'improYe-
ment," and found that where formerly there
had been six or seven coimns of live news
matter and the same amount of selected mis-
cellany, there was only six or eight columns
of love stories and dry literary stuff. We
doubt if the readers of that paper will admit
the Improvement"
Take, for example, the two st. Cloud pa
pers. The Journal Press is printed entirely
at home. Compare its outside with our
sspatent" inside, and candidly say which is
the best for subscribers. The Journal Press
of romances, literary selections, etc., which
have been going the rounds of the press for
the last quarter of a century, and contain not
a particle of news. On the other hand, the
"pstent'' side of the Times contains every
week from six to eight columns of late news,
including two columns of telegraph news,
which appeared in the dailies of the day pre-
vious, and from ak to seven columns of we'll
selected miscellany. Is this not infinitely
better than such selection as these entirely
b me made papers furnish? TIE two
weeks following the national con-
yentions of both parties, the
r mes "patent" side furnished full reports
of each convention four columns in length,
and on the home side. an editorial review.
The Journal Press furnished the editorial
review alone. Which was the most valuable
to the respective readers of each paper9
This is but a sample of every weeks issue of
the two journals. OF course everybody
admits the superiority of the Times local
and editorial columns.
We do not draw this comparison for the
purpose of belittling other journals; but be-
cause we are tired of the clap trap used by
some papers against patent insides, when
| their editors know. and an examination of
| their columns will prove that their former
"patent" sides were vastly superior to their
present homemade, dead matter make up.
| As We said before, we are abundantly able
to print all our paper at home; but, as the
present plan gives our readers more neUs
than any of the home spun sheets, we are
constrained to consult the interests Of oul
subscribers.
[PipestoDe News.
The MartinC County Sentinel has discarded
'patent outsides" and is ROW printed all a
home. In speaking Of the change the editor
berates at some length the epatent" system
Of ''stale news" etc., but glance at the out
side of the same paper does not reveal mucl
improvement in that regard, so far as we car
see. 70 our notion it makes very little diff
ference to the reader of miscellaneous mat
ter. whether we clip the items printed O.
some one else. The only real improvement
we have ever been able to see between pa
per printed all at home and one using th,
'patents," is that the former controls it
Ipwn advertising columns. But this idea o
one particular person selecting miscellany q
the home Office for the outside of uewspa
per, assuming it to be an improvement OF
"patents," is all bosh, for in nine cases on
of ten the miscellaneous patent sheets ar
far ahead of the bodies of the great dailie
In the variety Of selections.