Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-10-07

khe NeWsD0ys ana thc k'emuy Press.
The penny press, consisting Of the Dispatch, Sun,
Wing, and Tatter, announced ON Saturday, that they
had made amutual arrangement, by which they refuse
from this day forward TO sell any newspapers 10 the
newsboys who have been in the habit, ever since the
establishment the penny press, OF selling them round
town. at the steamboats,, post office, and other public
places If the proPrietors of these papers dis
posed, they have perfect right, in this land Of ber-
ty to refuse to sell their papers not only the news
boys but to any other persons they please They
use their papers for any purpose, public private
to roll up segars, to the temple But in promul-
eating this parpose to the public, doubt the right
the propriety Of these editors denouncing very
numerous body of youth, destitute Of morals, no.
sssty industry, any Of the elements that in time
make ur the respectable man. There was time when
the newsboys were less respectable than they are
now-it was when the penny press first establish
ed; at that time both the penny press and the news
boys were partly reprobates and for time there
after. OF recent years, however, the newsboys have
very much improv ed much faster than the pen
ny press ITSELF from the very fact that the business
Of selling respectable papers went increasing and
80 conferred responsibility upon them.
The denunciation of these youth, at this time is,
therefore, one Of the most uncaled for and most i'm
pudent assumptions that ever was attempted by any
SET oil men against an0tner lhese neWsOOyS
comprise about hundred and thirty to one
hundred and fifty young fellows, from six years OF
age TO sixteen. There may be bad chaps
among them, as there is among every class of per-
sons; but we doubt very much whether the proprie-
tors editors, reporters, and employees Of the penny
press do not contain much larger per .centage Of
pure wickedness than the whole class Of newsboys.
We shall, however, make moral and chemical ana
1ysis in alembic before the week is out-and
give the result to the scientific world.
Many OF these boys-indeed the most Of them,
the solace and support Of widowed mothers, bereav
ed sisters, and other helpless relations. The at
tempt therefore, Of the penny press TO deprive these
industrious little fellows of living in these hard
times, is the most revolving species Of monopoly and
arrogance that we remember to have heard Of But
ii is always the case; put seggar on horseback
and off he gallops to the devil-put vagabond in
power and he is tyrant. The charges made against
their merals and industry, false and caunnious
in the extreme. Like all American boys Of their
age they are lively, active, industrious, witty and
independent They rise in the morning at TO 4
o'clock, dispose Of their wares before o'clock in
the afternoon, and while other boys retng about
the theatres, and screaming "Gre" at the top Of
their lungs the newsboys quietly retiring TO rest,
in order TO be ready 10 rise before the next morn
ing's sun.
Their industry and enterprise are most remarka-
BILE We know several Of these boys who have laid
up for rainy day, some 600, goo, some
$500 and $1,000 Boys of this descrip.
tion, by their superior industry and economy, ac-
quire the rational habits Of decency and good be-
havior. sort Of public opinion is therefore Great
cd among them, which has been in operation for
two years past, and has produced very excellent
effects, in spite of the bad example and bad morals Of
the penny press To say, therefore, that this bust
ofthe newsboys isa "prolifc Of vice." is
exactly the reverse cfthe truth. They kept em
ployed every hour Of the day. and out Of vice aud
immortality TO much greater extent than boys who
have nothing to do-and have much more virtue, NOR
atty and honor than the whole OF the penny press
combined.
Such is view Of the case-and this view has
been the result oflong observation. When the pre-
sent prescription Of newsboys was projected, We
were asked IL Join IL. "No," was our emphatic
ply will never join impatient, ridiculous
combination to deprive 10 boys and 500 dependents
them, in all $50 souls Of their Of living;
will we. BY this strange, unnatural, throat
cutting combination ofthe penny press, which is like
the murderer, Wood, Of Philadelphia, cutting his
own chiid's throat. TO discontinue selling papers
10 the sboys circulation probably Of about 10 900
penny papers VIII De stopPco luis uhy we nave no
objection to supply these newsboys with what papers
they want TO meet this deficiency at usual rates;
and viii probably add 10 or 1900 copies to
already immense daily circulation during the
Of the present week
In the meantime, we ASK the newsboys TO prove IN
future by their good conduct, their decent behavior
their orderly manners, that the penny press have
saRaercd and illuminated their and character,
and that they the models Of virtue which the
penny press is yet 10 initiate. Let the larger
boys read this article TO the smaller-let them inn
press upon them the necessity Of good behavior and
propriety q conduct in all future time In this
ser they will demonstrate the world that the penny
press y common libeller and an impudent liar,
when u charged them with profanity, rbaldry and
indecency" Their poor mothers, sisters and little
brothers, who depend upon these newsboys daily for
their bread, will not be turned out 10 starve and
weep, because the arrogant penny press in the day
Of its power has undertaken TO deprive these boys
Of their honest means Of getting livelihood III he
penny press has got too big for its breeebe, no mat
ter, boys without great difficulty print 20 600
additional Herads every day order 10 supply YOU
my little fellows, with the means Of getting living
and Of maintaining your widowed mothers and father
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