The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-21

The stock gamblers, Wesley a. Co., and their
journal, the New York Daily Tines, evade the
question at issue between Us. They enumerate
some six or eight companies of various kinds
which they say have been puffed in the HERALD,
and subsequently exploded. The Times is not
posted. Not six but six hundred companies of
various kinds mining manufacturing and rail-
road companies, have at some time or other been
pulled " in the HERALD, when they deserved it,
and the same companies have again been exposed
and attacked when that was the treatment they
deserved. AS that is course which appears to
us after thirty years experience to be proper and
ust, We propose to pursue it in future; though,
OF course. We cannot ensure that the managers of
every company which shall claim our approval
viii 50 judiciously conduct its affairs that it shall
be ultimately successful. A careful study of the
columns Of the HERALD will therefore enable the
editor of the Times to make much larger list of
companies which all the counsels of this journal
did not prevent the managers from running.
But this is not the question at ISSUE The
question is-do Wesley Il Company, stock
gamblers and operators in newspapers, brick
churches, city lots and little villains, use the
Tdwes for their purposes, and does that journal,
which belongs to them endeavor to delude and
blind the public in order that Wesley & Com
paDy shall make money?
We assert that Wesley & Company do uni
formly use the Tmes, ard that its editors,
whether wilfully or not, We know and care not,
do persistently misrepresent facts, in order that
Wesleys speeulations and gambling operations
may succeed. We assert that the Tines from
day to day misrepresented the state of the
money and stock markets in order that Wesley
X Company might succeed in cornering Mr..
Little, and that when they had done so, the
Times bad the indecency to exult and gloat over
the fall OF man from whom these gamblers
may have received many favors We assert that
the T,mes was used by Wesley 4 Company in
their endeavor TO corner poor Pierce about the
Brick Church: the editor being directed to
say that be did not desire the government to buy
the property. in order to make poor Pierce think
that Wesley and Company were not anxious to
sell. We assert that Wesley 4 Company, bull
SPECTATORS. and large vendors of railway securi-
ties. do Systematically use the TINES to advertise
their wares and in IFS columns DO represent that
20 be good and valuable which they we'll know
At heart to be worthless. And we assert gene
rally, that the main object and purport of the
Tme' newspaper is to give aid, comfort and pro-
lection TO the specuations and gambling opera
tons Of Wesley 4 Company: that all the rest
Of Tits politics. lie literature and the rest-arp
mere shar1s. thrown in to make believe that II l.
newspaper, Ike the Herald, or Tribune
AMI that not many weeks since, Mr.
Wesley, the bead Of Wesley 4 Company, ey-
pressed his readiness 70. and actually took the
irst steps toward dissolv ne the concern because
doubt was raised Of his right to control the
Tmes for his own purposes
II the Ttaes have further stomach for the fight
lc' it controvert these assertions Let il show,
If Il can, that It Is not the property aud not the
obcdlent tool Of large stock jobbing house In
Wall street. Wesley ~ Company. Or let It
show that. during the thirty years Of our own
Newspaper experience, we have been equally
guilfy--that we have speculated in stocks, or
become the tool Of spectators. III il cannot do
any OF these things let il sold its peace. A man
may bold bis head up. though be be the servant
Of q gambler: but be cannot expect to b. recog-
nised If he submit 10 I've made a scavcnger Of the
anyways 10 suit bis masters revenge.
Tpr IsfaNn OF FrRk--T'ha Queer of the An