The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-09

It is easy to calculate what the HERALD woulA
have received had is price per thousand circulation
been placed NJ the rate with those honest pa
pers which strive to have the public believe the
HFRALp is o black mail paper | am, etc,
OHE WHO ApvERIIsfs TO GER TIE Mosr READERS.
We may add that we have the name OF the
writer of the above, and the name of the rail-
road company which paid the various sums of
money indicated in his letter. The former /.
gentleman of undoubted veracity and high re-
putaton; and we therefrom reason confidently
from the facts he states, assured that they
could, if necessary. be proved in court Of
Justice The minds action on such materials
certainly leads to strange developments.
The charges of some Of the newspapers above
mentioned are moderate and reasonable in pro-
portion to their circulation. Such are those of
the Tribune, Journal Of Commerce. and Com
mercial Advertiser. But it is not little sin
gular that due allowance made for the circula-
ton Of each-that much abused and sorely SLAM
dered journal the HERALD, the paper with whose
name "backmail' has been so frequently con-
nected, turns out really to be the cheapest Of
all, and the most reasonable in its dealings with
the public. The paper which has been SO often
accused of living ny unjust exactions is really
less exacting than any of its contemporaries.
Nor is it less curious to find that those journals
which have been most vociferous in calumni-
ating their neghbors, and casting charges of
ayarice and cupidity against their rivals. are
themselves the most exacting members of the
whole profession and the most remorseless
bloodsuckers in the community The reader
will have anticipated our enumeration of the
Times, Express, and Ereaiag Post. What
can be said of such paper as the Times--a
journal Of yesterday--which, after attaining a
tolerable circulation, has the audacity to levy
blackmail on the public by charging for adyer-
tisements three times as much as the HERALD
The Erening Post and the Erpress are even
worse. These paragons of moral assumption
and pretended rectitude in newspaper manage
ment, carry avarice and impudence still farther
II the advertisement for which the one charges
ss7 and the other $50 had been inserted in the
HERALD at proportionate rate according to
circulation. il would have cost the advertiser
from 5000 to $500.
The Developments here brought to light are
deserving of careful attention. Some of the
journals mentioned in our correspondents letter
have lived from their birth by levying prepos-
ferrous exactions on companies, corporations,
other public bodies and private individuals. in
the shape of advertisements. They have by
this means inflicted serious injury on the
newspaper trade and the fair business of ad-
vertising. We all remember how the defunct
Art Union was bullied into contributing some
four hundred and odd dollars towards the es-
tablishmem of the Times, the nominal consi-
deration for which was the insertion in the pros
pectus number of that paper, of an advertise
ment which would have been overpaid at TWEEN
ty dollars. The Express has lived on similar
exactions from political parties and other as
sociations. No wing politician will be likely
to forget the manner in which 1t bled that IN
fortunate Castle Garden Committee. OF fail to
moralize on the versatility with which it