The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-23

Our CONTEMPORARIES AND THEIR WAY OF norNG
BUsINEss.-As usual, this journal had exclusive
accounts of the recent melancholy shipwreck,
full day before its rivals. The course pur-
sued by the latter is curious and characteristic
Three out of the number, the Tribune, the
Erening Post. and the Commercial advertiser,
copied our account and gave us due credit
Two others-need we add that we allude to the
Times and the Express likewise copied our
account, but preferred stealing it to a~--ow-
Lodging its source. The Wall street papers
the Courier and the Journal-beng the spe-
cial organs of the mercantile community and
the shipping interests, ignored the disaster al
together. The conduct of these various papers
in this instance is key to their general char
acter. The Tribune, the Post, and the Com
mercial can hardly be accused Of any friend
ship for us, or any desire to serve our interests:
yet they all had the honesty to give us credit
for what was ours. 1t cost the Tribune pang,
and the word HERALD was inserted in the
most obscure corner and the smallest type that
could be found practice in which we cannot
consent to follow the example OF our phlosophi-
cal contemporary but the acknowledgment was
made, and honesty and we are satisfied We can
not doubt for moment that had the Journal of
Commerce and the Courier and ENQUIRER
thought fit to copy our narration of the wreck.
they too would have scorned to steal it. Their
omission OF the fact only proves that, in their
opinion, mems and women's lives are of less i'm
portance than boxes and bales. The two Jour
nails which stole our account-the Times and
ErpTcss-have given another proof of their un-
wavering fidelity to the principles on which
they started. When the Express passed into
the possession of its present owners their means
did not enable them to 60 to the same expense
as other newspapers; but as they promised
honesty and amendment il they prospered,
people forgave them 1t is impossible TO say
whether the proprietors Of the Express would
have fulfilled their engagement if fortune had
favored them; as it is, Of course, they have still
the same excuse as they had when they began.
Nobody of correct feeling can blame them for
employing fewer hands than any other daily
journal in the city, or for paying them worse.
or for stealing matter wherever they can get it.
So with the Times. The few thousand dollars
scraped together by Mr.. Stewards friends are
gone; and how the Times lives to-day is a
mystery to every one 1t has been obliged to
curtail its expenses in such way as to lose oil
the advance it had gained over the Tribune,
which now exceeds it considerably in circula-
ton. What wonder that the Times should
steal our reports instead of employing re-
porters itself? When the Times and Erprsss
stole our reports of the wreck of the San Fran
cisco, we demonstrated with them on their con-
duct, and mildly observed that in the event of
any similar disaster occurring our cashier
had orders to place fifty dollars at the disposal
Of each Of them, in order that they might pro-
cure reports Of their own. We even added
that, in consideration of the circumstances of
The proprietors OF the Express, they might
,onsider.it as a gift and not as loan This
We did, in order that the public might have the
benefit of several varied reports of such events.
instead Of ours alone. Why did not our cotem-
,oraries avail themselves of our offer? The
money is there still in the name of common |
sense, let them call and get it, and give ND |
stealing for the future.