People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — And The Prophecy is Fulfilled. [ARTICLE]

And The Prophecy is Fulfilled.

Less than a year ago, the People’s Pilot discarded its “ready-print” feature and began printing the entire eight pages at home. This was done that the paper would be free from the objectionable page of “foreign” advertisments, inserted by the ready-print publishers and to enable the editor to select and know what was published in all parts of the paper, and to give more space to local matters. The above facts were stated in the Pilot and its readers modestly told that the change w r as made to improve the paper. The worthy editor of the Republican took particular pains to ridicule the change and devoted the better part of a column to explaining the absurdity of the paper being any better because of its being all printed at home, becoming extremely mirthful over the substitution of “plate matter” for “ready prints.” In reply the Pilot made the prophesy that the Republican would be obliged to discard its “ready print” side or go out of business, as it could not long trot in the same class with its “all-at-home” printed cotemporary in the habliments of a past decade. The Pilot has gone steadily on, its reading clientage measurably increasing, and its advertising patronage surpassing that of any former time. Whether it has become the favorite paper of Rensselaer the editor is content to let the public judge, but certain it is, the same Republican, with same editor, that so ridiculed the Pjdbt for its change last has found sufficient reasons' for quitting its ready prityf publishers, and last week it swung quietly into line with the Pilot and printed botty sides on the home press, fulfilling the Pilot’s prophecy above referred to; it will bear reproduction in the light of recent developments, and is as follows:

KICKS AT THE INEVITABLE. “Theeditorof the Pilot, with the greaiest 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 the Pilot wns ‘•talking through his hat” at a great rate last week, and we scarcely know hy what theory to account for the great and sudden output of liis 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 lie 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’ now, 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 with this •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 could 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 contemporary. He recognizes that the day is not far distant when he must do the same.

“His readers already recognize the difference between the “pat ent inside” and the “home print,” and will soon be demanding that he move the paper up on the line of progression pursued by the Pilot. He knows that such a move will cost good hard gold dollars, and it touches a tender spot. He has fed at the public 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.”