People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Kicks at the Inevitable. [ARTICLE]

Kicks at the Inevitable.

The editor of the Pilot, with the greatest charity for the manifest nervousness of his most congenial brother of the Republican. can well afford to smile at the following from his last issue, which is reproduced that the people of Jasper county might discover that it had been printed; “Our esteemed neighbor of the Pilot was ‘talking through I his hat,’ at a great rate, last' week, and we scarcely know by ; what theory to account for the great and sudden increase in the output of his imagination, unless it be that his removal is the near proximity of the sulphur water of the court house well has had the effect of unduly stimulating his imaginative faculties. He gives it out straight, for instance. that the Pilot is the best paper in Indiana, and he don’t care who knows it, and, the unkindest cut of all, no exception is made even in favor of that great light of populism, the Nonconformist of Indianapolis. In another place the readers are given a great 'stiff’ about the Pilot being all ‘home print’ t ow, when the facts are that nearly the whole paper is made up from stereotype plates received every week by express, and in no essential respects better than nor different in nature from the ordinary ready prints or ‘patent insides,’ which the Pilot has used heretofore. Right along wjth this great ‘breeze’ about the Pilot’s ‘all home print’ (on ‘all-imported’ stereotype plates) are several cracks about the Pilot’s circulation’, which are of a piece in imaginative magnitude with the ‘best paper in Indiana’ and the ‘all home print’ rackets.” The earnestness of the venerable editor of the Republican is certainly amusing. Probably he does think, in his excited mental condition, that the Pilot is all plates, but the readers of this paper have no difficulty in finding twice as much local news and home set matter as they coaid find in the official paper of Jasper county The Pilot is printed at home 'on both sides, and that is exactly what troubles our worthy I contemporary. He recognizes that the day is not far distant when he must do the same.

-His readers already recognize the difference between the “patent inside” and. the “home print,” and will soon be demanding that he move the. paper up on the line of pursued by the Pilot. lie knows that such a move will cost good hard gold dollars, and it touches a tender spot. He has fed at the pubiic crib so long, and given so little for the privilege, that irritates him to be crowded. We forgive you brother, but you must bend to the inevitable; you must print your paper all at home. The Iniatiative and Referendum should become a fundamental part of every municipal charter. Reader, if you are pleased with . the Pilot as it now comes from the new press, won't you ask that neighbor of yours to take the best paper printed in Indiana. Remember a copy of “Coin's Financial School” is given free' with each subscription.