The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-24

Congress.
Great interest has been excited all over tho
country about our project of reporting verba
tim by telegraph the debates in Congress, to
the extent of from four to six columns a day.
The newspapers are discussing its Importance,
and on another page the reader will find some
extracts on the subject. In reply to one of
these (the article from the Tribune) we wish to
say word as regards ourselves.
The Tribune is the only journal that as yet
has expressed its willingness to enter into this
enterprise. IT approves of it highly, but says
it will be necessary to raise the price of the
paper from two to three cents to justify the
great additional expenditure. 1t may be very
proper and prudent for the Tribune to raise the
price to three cents, and we have no objection
that it should do so. But as regards the
HERALD, it is not our intention to advance
the price; we do not deem ii necessary.
If to do SO should be asked from us as a con-
dition by our contemporary for his joining
in the project, we must conclude to 90 into it
alone But if the Tribune desires to make its
price three cents, that will be no ground Of
objection on our part With or without the
Tribune, or any other New York Journal
or whether they lower or raise their price, or
keep it stationary, we are determined to carry
out the enterprise. Perhaps newspapers in
other cities may participate in it, and they
will do SO if they want to keep pace with
the advancing spirit Of the age. But if thew
will not, that will make no difference to us
We are able and prepared, from our enormous
resources, to achieve it single-handed, and that
too, with the price Of the HERALD unchanged
This progress is part Of our system-a law
of the HERALD's existence. 1t has continuedto
advance steadily from year to year from itsfirst
number II has carried out all its projects of
Improvement and progress, with or with
out associates, and often in the face of COM
bined opposition. II has advanced like the
population Of New York, and like the popula-
ton and wealth of the country II has gone
on pdra passu with American progress, because
it is an institution of the country. Strange to
say, the politicians who pretend to know most
about the HERALD know least of the secret Of
its popularity and of it's continually increasing
circulation. When 1t opposed the admnistra-
ton of poor Pierce, Forney and others of his
calibre said the HERALD was declining, when
the truth was that it had never been SO
prosperous, and had increased twenty
per cent in circulation and in advertise
ments. Now, when the HERALD takes an
opposite course, and gives an independent sup
port to the administration of Mr.. Buchanan
they pretend that the HERALD has eliminated
and is sinking from the zenith of its prosperity
But never before was its success so great as
now.
Thus tits still advancing, no matter what course
it pursues. And why is this? What is the cause
of its increasing circulation and increasing ad-
vertising business? 1t is because the people of
all parties and classes read it for its truth.
They expect to find in it a full and faithful ac-
count of current events, and they are not dis
appointed. People want to know the truth, no
matter what their politics are, and they will
look for it in vain in their own party papers
We publish the facts about all parties and
bodies, and leave the people to form their own
Judgment. We give them the materials from
which they can think for themselves Hence,
therefore, the HERALD increases with the in
creasing population, no matter what party is in
the ascendant and no matter what party it
opposes or supports. 1t is altogether indepen-
dent of party, and its opinions cannot be
bought by anything that party can give. 1t is
its ever-increasing success, arising from this
course, that now enables us to embark in the
new enterprise of daguerreotyping for our
readers every morning the exact doings and
sayings Of their representatives in Congress the
day before, just as we would if Congress were
sitting in New York instead of Washington
And this new feature of the HERALD will be the
most interesting and important of any that has
ever distinguished its career.
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