Worcester daily spy., 1858-07-20
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Tuesday. JULY 20. 1888.

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TTEeDAY. JULY 20. 1888.
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I, /. often better to suffer wrong, than to re-
-, =, tho means which might be necessary to
,;sb, ones self. and we havebeeu disposed, SO tar
..;nstics 70 ourselves and others would warrant,
N act mon that principle, but when anuisahce is
rsnsatedlv thrust in our way, Extensively, on the
presumption of such fOrbearance, it may be best,
sometimes, to push it aside, regardless OF the con-
saminatiou of the contact. The following para
graph appeared in the TrGnscript q yesterday
with much expense, Of time, troabe, and
money, we are publishing the tax lists OF every
town in the county. The Spy is taxing them
from our columns without any acknowledgement
and about one week later.
In reply to this, we say that we have copied
nothing Of the kind from the Transcript; all we
have published were obtained from other sources
and we we're not aware that any Of them had been
in that uaper and it seems TO meta little cool
for the publisher oft to jump at the conclusion
that what is matter of public record, open to eve
rybUdy, cannot be obtained by Others as we'll as
himself
AS we have the Transcript in hand, we make
the following extract also, from its yesterday ia
Z sue;
"The Transcriptls now the only paper in she
county of Woscester that furnishes Its readers
with the telegraphie dispatches. Those 'oho se-
sire to kolC the latest Neaos t0IH ind At IN our co.,
Uans."
Some people are very fondof blowing their own
Wumpets, and seem vastly pleased with it, though
they may be of the smallest kind md of the most
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with such people, the propelling motive to aenon
is consciousness, that, if they do not do 1t them
selves, no one else would ever think of doing it
for them.
The avidity wirh which the Transcript seizes
upon temporary circumstance, for self fglorit1ca-
tion, is sufficiently ludicrous to those who have
the means ofsmaking comparison, Take foS
instance, the very paper fsom which these ex
tzacts are made, that of yesterday morning, and
eUeyy single fact in the telegrapbc dispatches of
the Transcript is in the Spy of the same morn
ing, but more full, ample, and complete, IN the
Spy than the Transcript, while we had a consid-
cradle amount of the latest and most important
news, that was not in the Transcript at all.f We
invite our readers to- take the two papers and
make the comparison. They will see how much
fuller and more complete was our account Of the
drowning of the girls at New York. They will
find that our report from the wounded victims of
the Erie Railroad accident is one day later than
the transcripts, aside from the very interesting
letter of DR.. Prime, of which the Transcript had
nothing. They will fnd, beside these, much
greater amount and variety of interesting news
articles in the Spy than in the Transcript of the
same day.
It is most repugnant to our feelings, to make
inyidiOus comparisons with our neighbors, or any
body else. and never do it, unless driven to it
by the gasconade or misrepresentation of those
whose envy or malice prompts them to the act.
Had we cherished the same kind of feeling which
has manifested itself through the columns of the
Transcript, ever since it passed into the hands Of
the prtsen publisher, we might have said many
things that would be little gratifying to his self
complacency, and yet not have gone SO far as he
hrs gone. We might have made comparisons by
stating facts, the truth of which he is fully
aware. We might show to advertisers the
unapproachable difference between the two
papers, as mediums Of advertising, not
only in the extent of calculations hut in
its character, which is even more impor-
tsnt even than ats extent We might refer sub
scribers to the comparative amount of reading
matter daily served up in the two, and point to
the skeletons of news in one Of them, where the
bones are picked clean Of all the meat that ever
was on them, in order to compress the greater
number Of said dry bones into the lack of space
that is assigned them, We could speak of othea
n
stion for it. We leave it to the presiding gesins
of the Transcript, to indulge in snch things,
whenever any accidental and temporary circum-
stance may give him the opportunity, which he
seems so much to coTet.