Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1873 — Co-operative Publishing. [ARTICLE]

Co-operative Publishing.

Mr. Details Finch informs us Unit Guinea Foals nne a good remady for jKitaloe bugs,- Stark County Ledger. The foregoing in rather better than an average editorial for the. Ledger fo'ks. -y ; fr ■rtrf IWLl. mm, The comity oflloers hitrr had their offices |Mil iced aud whileVdSlied.— VViiiatnac Republican. Let the lit Yale e care that it docs not become necessary to police and ‘whitewa-sh the occupants of those offices. Gen. Jasper Packard Ims the finest cabinet case for curiosities ill the city. —Laporte Herald. And yet Gen. Packard says that he has stfved nothing out of his official salary! If lie lias not wonder where he gets his money to travel and buy luxuries with? One of the objects of the Granges i s to do away with the wholesale drummers that perambulate the country and add enough to the price of their goods to pay tlieir expenses.—Laporte ' Argus. Should they be successful Lafayette would be inhabited only by moles and hats in two years, as that would destroy the occupation wf about 300,000 of its male inhabitants. - The Kentland 'Democrat says that Mr. S. P. Thompson d-divered a good temperance lecture in that place Tuesday evening of last week, but that the meeting was rather slimly attended. Mr. Thompson's zeal in a good cAusc transcends his discretion, else he would never have selected such a dry subject in hot weather for people whose thirstiness is proverbial. When you want a puff go to George Waters and secure one of those fragrant cigars.—Lowell Star. That may all he very well for people up in that musketo region, btit if anybody down this way wants the.real, genuine, bona tide, article, warranted to neither rip, ravel, tear, cut in the eye nor wear out, let them call at this office and pay ten cents a line cash in advance and get something extra. The Lafayette Courier is greatly exercised over the fact that the Commissioners of Tippecanoe county have contracted for the erection of buildings oil the poor farm, for the benefit of their paupers, that will cost over a million and a quarter of dollars. The proposed poor palace- will -be Imat--cd by steam, furnished with hot and cold baths, have a steam elevator for tiausf.rriiig its occupants from one story to another, and a green house. The only way Pro. Lingle can get even with the paupers of his county, is to become an inmate of llic institution. Although Mr. Packard’s letter to Mr. Timothy Keene, proposing to refund §l2 of his "back pay” stcalthe people of this Congressional district, does not appear to have mollified the indignation of his constituents, yet it was not altogether without its fruits. The author succeeded bv it m obtainin'’’ • D 1 a notoriety that ten years of public life, civil and military, bad never produced. Among other complimentary notices die has received, the Springfield, Mass., Republican says “lie is a dull-witted imitator and plagiarist whose very foolishness is a second-hand article.”

For five years or more tire Kentland Gazette lias been published on the co-operative plan—that is, has had what printers call its “outside pages” printed at a foreign office, as The Uxiox is printed. Recently it has become dissatisfied with the arrangement and now wants to dictate to both those who are proprietors of such publishing offices and to those who patronize them. In the last issue of the Gazette is to be found the following proposition in relation thereto: The way to get at this matter and render it effective, in our judgment, is to call a convention of publishers using “Insides” and “outsides” and pledge ourselves to aet in concertdemand the control as indicated above —and our demauds will be . acceded to without delay. To make short work of the sharks who are growing rich upon our stupidity, we propose a convention to be held at Chicago as soon as practicable. Let the co-operative patrons of Indiana, Iliißois. Micbigan, Wisconsin and other States, come together and act upon the matter in a manner that the hour demands. What say you, brothers of the cooperative quill? Notwithstanding this is a matter in which the general public is not directly interested, yet in order to comply with the request of our contemporary .ws thus publicly answer that in oar Judgment a convention as he suggests would not only incur unnecessary expense hut would be unlikely to produce aiiy lasting benefit to those immediately j

interested. fts wedook at it,, the most practical solution of the question is for those dissatisfied with the plan to cease patronizing cooperative offices and do their printing at home. We don’t go much on conventions anyway, and never did like to thrust our private business before the public. For the present the co-operative plan of h'uhlistiing suits lis very well, but j should he ever become dissatisfied I with it we will quietly try some other method without consulting : anybody 1 1se,' eitfhfi'TiidivUiimUyW* in convention.