New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-11-18

ss COMBINATIONS TO RISE .aJv.D RE
DUCE THE WAGES OF LaBOR"
Under this caption, the Delta Of yesterday
has an editorial, which calls for some notice
We deem it ungenerous in its insinuations, as il
is vain in its ostentatious boastings. Its insinu
atoms in reference to circulation and to the
rates Of steamboat advertisement are unusual
and without foundation In fact.
The Delta may have large circulation, and
We sincerely hope it has. Butyas we believe
everybody and everything are best appreciated
at home, we would be happy towager something
With the conductors Of the Delta that 6 their
customary and fayorite journal. has not as
lsrgea circulation in this city as the Crescent
We have reason to believe that the Delta cannot
even approach the circulation Of the Crescent
and We are more than willing to submit our be-
lief to demonstration. Our neighbors are re-
spectfully invited to prove their boasts by de-
i monstration Of their confidence in them. We
are not in the habit Of putting" our paper
and our proposition is only drawn from us by
the inconsiderate boasting Of our contemporary
Will the Delta, with US, submit a comparison o
circulation, upon the responsibility Of proprie-
iors and book keepers, to the public. NE are
sSpady to do 30. The results Of any wager will,
of course, be handed over to some charitable as
ISOLATION Or establishment, the disposition to be
iat the pleasure Of the winners.
But the Delta reveals the secret impulse which
brought its editorial into existence, when it
zssys:
Hence combinations reduce the wages Of aborpro-
dnss much poverty and wretchedness. Now, Of the
latter kind Of combination, many Of the steamboat pro-
pfetdS in this have not proved gultess By
hnson among Of them the printing of their adver
tsmsnts IL the daily newspapers is fixed below cost"
And it adds:
Certain papers In the city, seeing no reason why
~ ir prices for the work done by them demanded to
b paid It least The cost Of setting up h advertisements as
charged By the compositors the space in the paper being
gven convenience to the public. Such fair and mod
szate demand was rejected"
And yet further
They not only would not consent to pay the cost Of
voek done BY them but they entered into and still
she d.
cnsd to do their work for less than half the cost"
All this is in comment upon the Picayunes
editorial We do not, however, relish being
raped over the shoulders of a contemporary
and, as the Crescent is VIGOROUSLY one of the
two papers now doing the chief advertising bust
mess Of the steamboats,, we state emphatically,
that we publish no steamboat advertisements or
any other advertisements g below cost" or
much less at " less than half the cost" We
publish the steamboat advertisements at exactly
the same rates heretofore established by the
Delta, Picayune and Bulletin, and which rates.
wssuspect, were fixed with view to driving all
other journals supposed to be less prosperous
Or wealthy out Of the reach Of steamboat bust
ness The rates were not, and certainly are
not, fairly remunerative; and for the state of
things, the Delta, so long sharing with one or
two others in the monopoly Of steamboat adver-
hsing business, is largely responsible. 1t CO.
operated in keeping prices down, until it
thought, as others thought, that steamboat
advertising business could not flow out of GER
tain channels Of journalism, and then, acting
with the other (and to it not very friendly
Journals, it arbitrarily and without proper re-
gard to the established rules Of newspaper cour-
: tesy, decreed new and advanced rate Of steam
boat advertising. The idea was, that the sud-
den and forced advance of prices would confirm
and consolidate in the hands of the Delta, and
It's confederates, monopoly Of steamboat adj
yertising--that, in the raising of prices, steam
hoatmen would be compelled to economist by
seiecting two OF three papers; and that, with
the use Of evening editions, the monopoly and
aus Incidental advantages were certain to be
realized.
me nrst zoe knew Of the whole matter was
statement that the arrangement was a thing
alread fixed in type, and rather impertinent
snumation from an employee of the Picayune
that IT made very little difference whether we
felished IT or not-that the Picayune, Delta and
Bulletin had decreed the advance, and that in
their proclamation was the beginning and the
end Of the argument In other words, it was
intimated, that they proclaimed themselves
Kings, lords Of the press Of New Orleans and
dictstors to steamboatmen, and looked npon
other presses and the balance of the world as
g small fry generally.
We have too weak stomach for dictation SC
unnecessarily discourteous and abrupt-and re
jected it at once. We are, at the same time, al
promptly ready to unite in any general under
standing Of the press of New Orleans; and WI
know our circulation can give weight to on,
points
As for the complaint Of the Delta, that steam,
boatmsn will mot voluntarily aid in increasing