Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-11-14
A Cincinnati Institution.


Now that the election excitement Is over,
the people will probably not be willing to
endure longer that surfeit of partisan psbu-
lum which they have supposed it necessary
to swallow in the party papers, in order to
save the country. We suppose that the
great mass Of the people are nauseated with
this stuff which they endure because they
think it is necessary in order to keep up the
zeal of the respective parties, or that it may
be of use to some who are not yet enlight-
ened on political questions. Now, when
every body would like to throw Off this
heavy weight is a suitable time to refer TO-
the merits Of the DAILY PRFss.
We are not disposed TO affect any violent
modesty at the cost of any large sacrifice of
our interests. We publish journal as a
matter of business. The undertaking shows
that we consider ourselves qualified for it. If
there is any lack of modesty in the case, it is
in the original undertaking. We should be
poorly fitted for the business if we were not
aware of the merits of the paper. And being
aware of them, we have right to refer to
them, and to recommend them to the public.
They are our stock in trade our goods and
chattels, our merchandise, and we have the
same right to advertise them that a mer-
chant has to recommend his stock.
We should be very incompetent for the
newspaper business if we did not know that
the DAILY Pass is the best necs4paper in
the city. Strike out the heavy political
documents-which sensible. persons do not
read-from our contemporaries, and what
poor skeleton would remain. The smaller
size of the Press is vastly more than made
up by the greater labor and skill devoted to
careful selection, sitting, rewriting and COM
densing news and literary matter, which
enables us 70 give general view of all de-
partments Of news, intelligence and litera-
ture, while our larger scotemporaries are
limited by their heavy doses and easy
wholesale clipping, to a marrow range of
subjects. The reader finds the task of
wading through mass of matter reduced
by the labor and skill of the news editor,
and condensed from vefbosity and dfffuse-
ness, until q variety of things are brought
within brief glance, single one of which
in their expanded form, would have alb
sorbed the space of all, and then would not
have been thought worthy the labor of read
ing. The ,white paper and the printing
represent but a portion of the equivalent
which the purchaser Of the DAILY PRESS re-
ceives for his pone cent. There is, included
in it editorial labor in reducing a mass 3
heavy materials to dimensions which are a
vast saving of time to the reader; and time
to most of our readers is money. In this
view it is not unreasonable to calculate, that
to every business man the PRESS returns a
hundred fold on the investment.
In the local department the Press may |
challenge comparison with any of it. larger
contemporaries. There may not be SO much
of what one of Dickens's characters called
"B. G. nonsense, about them as in some of
the Others but the facts and incidents are
there and up with the age. spElEU es~I
AS for what is called the leading editorial
that is in the habit of speaking
for ITSELF g---E,TT grIE- !
Newspaper men appreciate the qualities !
that we have mentioned in the DAILY Press.
So do our readers, and we have number,
in this and the neighboring cities, larger
than was ever before reached by Cincinnati
journal. Our friends come to us with com-
pliments enough, il such material would run
a newspaper, to put through the Press at
high pressure. They tell us we are publish Z
ing the best paper in the West, at too low
price, and that any reader of the PRESS would
gladly pay price more in proportion to its
merit no r,.s.-s -l
But we want twice as many readers right
away. And as fast as we reach them we
IRE as sure of them as the Doctor said he
was sure of patient, if he could only get
'ne dose down him. We are gratiied that
he Press circulates largely among the
eading, thinking, educsted and religious
and that $50 welcome in their
antilles. This appreciation is the chief re-
yard of a journalist. We are also gratifed
hat we have been able to reach so large a
lumber Of the industrial portion of the COM
nunity. But we want at least 20, 900 more
# the mechanics and laboring men of the
'ity, VINO have not been in the habit of
aking any daily paper; or who have been
ed on the husks which our neghbors fur
ish. We want to reach the unthinking, to
ct them to thinking and sinners also, to
onvert them, as well as the righteous
Under Providence the growth of the ,
'REss has been Unprecedented in Western
journalism; and we doubt if the circulation
f any paper is so little marked by party or
lines. And we can not be indiifer- .
Mt to the evidence constantly furnished us
the sympathy and good feeling that the I
REss establishes with its readersS 1t coufd 7
OF be otherwise. The course of the Pass i
onward. 1t is Cincinnati institution, I
nd its growth is identified with that of the g
ty. :
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