The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-21

old gentlemen, who have been feeding out OF
the public crib for the last thirty years, 10 re-
tire and make way for younger and more hun
cry men.
Remsrkable Newspaper Aadacity and
Lying.
We published few days ago q statement of
the sales of the daily papers of this city. That
statement was copied from the official docu-
ments-that is, from the books Of the Internal
Revenue Department in the office Of the assessor
to whom the publishers of the several papers
are compelled by law to make return of their
sales. Some of the other papers. having nerve
enough to face the music, copied that statement,
and some pointed out that it was inaccurate,
which, of course, was an affair between those
papers and the assessor. We copied the figures
as they appear in his Office; and If the sales of
any paper are larger than it has stated In its
return he will give the publisher, no doubt,
chance to correct it before pay day.
But there is one paper that has the remark
able audacity to deny that any such returns
were ever made. That paper, Of course, is the
sanctiied Tribune. Cut to the quick by the
official showing that its circulation was less
than one-quarter that of the HERALD, it denies
in its columns its own statements made at
the revenue Office. Unable to argue around the
numbers, it goes, with characteristic unscru-
pulousness and its inevitable instinct for lie,
to the extremity Of an outright denial, and de-
clares with the pitiful emphasis Of italics, that
"there are no such returns" II further says-
1vIyl.l 20 tvra1 70
figures we do not know; it certainly manufac-
tured ours. The law requires no returns OF
sales to May l, 1866, and none have been made
by this Office"
This is a very simple question. AS to the
returns that the law requires" here are the
words of the laws
Wholesale dealers whose annual sales do not exceed
fifty thousand dollars shall pay fifty dollars for each
license and if exceeding fifty thousand dollars for every
dollars one dollar And the license rs-
qured by any wholesale dealer shall not be for less
amount than his sales for the previous year
This law, then, requires that the publisher OF
the Tribune shall take out license as whole
sale dealer; and in order to ascertain the
amount that he must pay for his license 1t re-
ouires him to state what his sales were for the
previous year. Thus-to prevent the posi-
bility of a quibble-the price Of license to
sell papers for year from May l, 1865"
must be based upon return Of sales made
in the previous year up "to May l, 1865"
and the application for license for specified
sum for the year, from May l, 1865, to May l.,
1866, is itself return of the sales of the for
mer year, and must be, or il is invalid.
Here is copy of the Tribune's application
for license:-
III
APPLICATION FOR LICENsE.
(sEcrioN ~.
Application is hereby made by the Tribune Association,
Samuel Sinclair, Croon, Westchester county, New York,
publisher (S2620 for license as wholesale dealers
under Excise OF the United States said business
occupation to be carried on at No. l64 Nassau street
in the city Of New York. county Of New York and State
| of New York. from May 1, 1895. tS252)
esG% Ne" fcH 'as a s5y
sAMI. SINCLAIR. Publisher.
To-, Assessor District Of -.
Endorsed on the back Of the application Is
the following
Application Of the Tribune Association 154 Nassau for
license as wholesale dealers Entered and registered BY
District %, Division 20
This application for license as wholesale
dealers contains the figures S252,0OO, and IL
that sum is not return Of sales of the Tribune
for the year from May l, 1864, to May l, 1855,
then the Tribune men have caused to be regis
tered in the assessors Office false statement
| of their business.
This shows the utter unscrupulOusness and
mendacity with which the Tribune is conducted
now that its management has passed out Of the
hands of Greeley. No lie is too outrageous for
| it to utter, and its columns are collections Of
falsehopd and filth, as may be seen by Its
account Of the Museum fire and of the German
festivals. A for its other falsehoods in rela-
ton to advertisements, they arc not worth an
answer