The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-23
A Card from Mr.. Bonner about q Live News.
paper.


believe that one man has as good right 70
publish paper as another, or to get mp large
circulation, or to employ eminent contributors or
to advertise extensively, or TO do anything clso
that is honest and fair. do not believe, however,
that any publisher has RICH. to impose upon and
deceive the public, or to attempt 10 steal another
mans thunder, TO do anything else tina. is mean
and dishonorabe. In a word believe that every
tub should stand upon it, own bottom
In yesterdays Tribune, aBoston publication ad-
veriised itself as "a LAVE NEWSPAPER and - nj,
evidence Of its vitaliiy-as a proof that il was
aliye--that II contained contribution by the Hon.
EDWARD EVERETT, and humorous poem ~ jouS
&. SAKE. On examining this paper, which was an
nounccd with such flourish of trampets found
that II contained just twenty-five liIe. b. Mr..
Everett. whtch u had copied from al oil Ggrtcul-
turd address: and the humorous poem by John
q. SAKE, found 70 be ian old acquaintance
poem which ,cas ,cr,ncn for and published "a the
LdJer some rscks ago, and for Uhich paid
M. Saxc rhdt h. considered Gerry liberal sum.
Now, leave IL 70 the public TO Judge IL such
publication would not he more appropriately desig-
mated ly being advertised "a DEaD instead of q
LIVE newspaper. But this il not the first time that
this publication has offended. II has heretofore
published some Of my copyrighted articles: but
am not disposed 10 treat IL harshly Ii does not
stand alone in this matter
There Is no paper published in the United States
nom which 80 many stories, sketches, essays and
poems are copied by the country press the New
York LEDGER; and there il none that receives so
little credit In proportion To the amount of natter
taken from IT, This nrises probably. from the fact
that do not print the line, written for the New
York Ledger" over everything which | publish
originally This custom Of extracting from the
columns Of the LEDGER, without the customary ac-
Acknowledgement, nj one time annoyed me somewhat
but lattcrly " has been source of amusement. az
WI be sten by the facts above stated as well as
those which follow
liarpcrs Weekly, some time ago published an
article which struck rs % being an old acquaint-
ance, and on turning 10 our files we discovered that
" was, word Tor word, ono of FANNY FERNS
LEDGER "SKETCHEs' which had been published
and copyrighted by US. On being informed of this
fact, the Messrs. Harper promptly made the
anl,nae honorable and stated In explanation that
the article had been copied from an English periodi
cal, which, II seems, "had appropriated the
sketch and published il a. original.
short time after this occurrence, the Home
journal published story, credited 10 a London
paper. which story was written expressly for the
Ledger by Sylyanus Cobb, Jr. We called General
Morris attention to this fact, and he immediately
and handsomely made the proper acknowledge
mcni. but In the same number Of the Home Journal
in which the correction appeared another Ledger
article published, likewise credited to q London
paper This rather startled our friend the General
What ccniounded thieves they arc over there y
said lie; they live by pundering American tera-
urc ~
Next in turn came the grave Journal Of Com
m,rce. with one Of Emerson Benefits graphic
MtA'dH Ch'th,N'. Nthttu Expressly ior inc
LEDGER, and which. having probably been pilfered
and published by some other paper was copied by
the journal. without credit to either the LEDGER
OF tie author
Aud lastly the Home Journal notwithstanding
tie great precautions taken by It's conductors To
prevent the recurrence ~ such accidents, recently
published an article Jealousy credited to
Dickens, which was written for Us by Augusta
Moore, and published IN the LEDGER of the 18th of
May last. We ehall not say anything TO our good
natuftd friend General Morris about this last mat
Ter. We would not willingly drive him to despair
But, after Oh. we Do not know that we can blame
our contemporaries. u is very natural lpr editors in
search OF matter to take the very best they can lind