Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-15
NeWnanper Matters.

We observe, says the st. Louis Repub
Lcdn. that there will be a meeting OF the
Western Associated Press at Louisville,
on the 22d inst, at 10 o clock A. M. The
Southern press are invited to send rer-
resentat,yes, and we hope there will be
a general attendance.
There is not only no improvement visi-
BILE in the character of the news sent
out by the New York Association Press,
but the monopoly which controls the dis
patches seems to grow worse and worse
in it's attention to the actual wants OF the
reading public Knowing its power to
compel the press of the country to toll
lerate it the management IS utterly in
different to the adoption of means to
correct the manifold evils of its system.
The New York Associated Press is
nominally composed of seven newspa-
papers, to wit: The Journal of Com
aaerce, Tribune, Herald, World, Times,
Express, and Sum- The combination
was originally formed for the urpose of
procuring European intelligence, but
has extended to embrace the news of
the United States as well. We say nongi-
nGlly composed of those journals, for
the fact that they have very little voice
in the direction of the concern, the con-
troll being lodged in the American Con
solidated Telegraph Company. The
rules of the association permit each pa
per to obtain and print all the special
dispatches it may choose from the politi-
cal capitals, Washington, ect., and in
few special cases, such as the meeting
of National Convention; but copies of
any other dispatches are equally the
property of all other papers that wish to
have them. The Associated Press is
bound to the use of the lines of the
American Telegraph Company, to the
months ago Rochester newspaper was
denied the regular dispatches because it
made use of rival company for specials.
The paper tried for while, single hand
ed, to combat this oppressive exaction,
but was finally forced to succumb. Thus
it will be seen that the American Tele-
graph Company and the New York AS
ISOLATED Press constitute together a
monster monopoly, which, while failing
to meet the wants of the public in the
transmission Of fresh, reliable, and in
teresting news, wholly defeats any pri-
vate enterprise designed in some meas.
ure to remedy existing defects.
The Western and Southern press
ought not to be dependent for news upon
the New York combination. The Saint
Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati leading
papers each pay from twenty-five to fifty
per cent more money for news for their
readers than any single paper in New
York, publish more reading matter and
come nearer up to the mark of thorough
and conscientious journalism than any
| one of them. The present respectable
| ty of the newspapers in the South, at
New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Rich
mond, Savannah, Augusta, &C., is of
very creditable standard and improving.
Together the newspapers of the West
and South are able to perfect an organ.
| ization, of which the neucleus now ex-
lists, that may become, if not altogether
independent of the New York corpora.
ton, at least powerful enough to have
some voice and influence with regard to
the general character of the intelligence
transmitted from that quarter, while as
suming direct control of the exchange
of news in their own sections.
With a combined and earnest effort
the monopoly in telegraphing can be
broken up. The United States Circuit
Court of the Southern District of Ohio
few days ago decided a case in favor
of the United States Telegraph Compa-
ny agailst the Western Union Telegraph
Company, which had sought to exclude
competing lines from Cincinnati to Day
ton, ard to establish a monopoly. The
court declared that an arrangement
made by the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad with the Western Union
Telegraph Company was contrary to
public policy. and therefore not to be
enforced The United States Tele-
graph Company is extending its lines in
every direction, and there is little doubt
that, with the expiration of the Morse
patent, the public will ere long have
much greater facilities for telegraphing
than at present. Questions connected
with this subject will, in all probability,
come before the Western Associated
Press at the meeting in this city, and
we again urge a full attendance, not
only on the part of the newspapers of
the West, but on the part of those OF the
South also.-LoH Journal.