The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-05-12
Ready Prints.

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wage war upon the ''patent outside
system. While we think that the
objections to "ready prints" are
more numerous than its advantages,
we are opposed as much, to the
wholesale abuse of the system as
we are to the self-praise in which
the eight-page and supplement n N
sing their energy and enterprise.
The editor, cursed by drunken
typos, vagabond jours. and tramps
who stay long enough to get on a
drank, looks upon the "patent out.
side" as a god-send and as the only
relief from his trials. It is all stuff
and nonsense to say that editors or
publishers are made lazy by the use
fof the system. The beauty of the
composition and work ON the out
side is to the printer who loves his
art, an incentive to great exertions,
while the editor, relieved from the
necessity to clip, finds more time to
devote to his editorial matter.
| We admit that patent outsides
have their uses, and we know that
many editors or publishers can not
now dispense with them. When so
little reliance is to be put in the
majority of printers, some news
paper men must have recourse to
ready prints.
But when We remember that the
publisher, from whom the ready
print is procured, reserves to him
self one or more columns for adyer-
Using, which he disposes OF at IS
per cent. less than regular rates, all
printers should try to do all their
work at home.
/ Publishers who adopt the system
seem to have given no thought to
the inconsistency in terms for adj
vertising. A paper cannot last long
when its two sides are in the hands
of different parties having different
interestsaud prices greatly different.
The above is from the Claiborne
Guardian. The reasoning is good,
especially that portion in reference
to drunken printers and lazy
tramps. Country publishers are
mainly dependent upon these wits
ky guzzling nuisances. By adopting
the ready printed sheets, the pub.
Usher not only saves time and ex.
pense, but rids himself of great
nuisance-a drunken and unreliable
printer. And they never fail to get
drunk, or quit work, when they find
that their work is really needed.
Before we would again place any
reliance upon such despicable crea
lures we would, if necessary, have
both pages of the BANNER printed
abroad; or else close up shop.
Everything is liable to abuse, or
has its disadvantages. The only
argument that can be used against
some ready printed sheets is that
in them a certain space is reserved
for "quack medicine" advertise
ments, which are inserted at far less
rates than the publisher of the
paper charges his home patrons.
But that is the fault of the country
publisher, and not the system.
Because the country publisher dis.
eliminates against home advertisers,
that is no argument against ready
printed sheets. The BANNER uses
ready printed sheets, but it does not
discriminate against home adver-
Users. No space is reserved by the
publishers of the ready printed side
OF our paper. We reserve it all for
home patrons, and charge all alike.
But, if we should discriminate, it
would be in favor of home patrons.
Now, as at all times in the his.
tory of our country, wealth enters
tar more largely into common esti.
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