The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-12

bility Of war. Il got dreadfully scared but,
curious to say, = the quarrel became more So
rious, 1t affected to laugh at It's alarms, and
through its organs In the press denounced the
HERALD as giving sensational importance to
very small quarrel. Even when the refer
ence Of the matter to European Congress at
tested Its gravity, and when they learned that
France and Prussia were actively pushing for
ward their preparations for war, this affected
skepticism was perseversd in.
Now that the correctness Of every statement
made by our Berlin and Paris correspondents
has been borne out by events, We are justified
In asking whether this is . fair and candid
mode Of dealing with journal which makes
such large sacrifices in the interest Of the
public. Our contemporaries, whose jealousy in
duces them to lend themselves to it, should
feel pride instead Of annoyance ct the pre-
eminense we have won over the European
press. Why should our beating the European
journals on their own ground excite any
surprised
The cable has effected an entire revolution
in the relative positions Of the European and
American press. Where the European jour
mails had the advantage over US in priority Of
news regarding diplomatic matters they have
not only lost it. but owing to the censor
ship to which they are subject, are thrown
considerably in arrear Of US. There is, there
fore, nothing astonishing in the fact that the
HERALD, with its large command Of capital and
its superior organization of foreign GORE
spondents, should be in possession of intelli-
gence which the European journals either had
not obtained or did not dare to publish. 1t is
to the jealousy Of our less enterprising con-
temporaries and the Wall street interests af
fected by the news that we owe all these unfair
insinuations. Ever since the cable commenced
working we have been more or less subjected
to them. For weeks afterwards everything that
we published from Europe was manufactured"
and every newspaper critic was Professor
LOOMS. But the other journals connected
with the Associated Press copied while they
abused us, and thus proved their want of faith
in their own assertions. There has not, in
fact, been one Of the special kilograms pub
lished by US from that time down to the
present which has not been subsequently
copied and confirmed by the European jour
mails. The famous Bismarck despatch of the
llth Of April appeared In their columns
several days after we published it here.
and was admittedly taken from US, being
the first intimation which they had had, or at
least dared to publish, Of the existence Of the
difficulty.
In presence Of facts 70 wcll established all
this csvilling would be incomprehe nsibls. were
1t not feature Of long established system.
Ever. sincs the HERALD was started It's lazy
rivals have beon h the habit Of depreoiating
every VICTORY that we obtained over them, in
order to corer up their own failures. Whether
it was an important piece Of intelligence from
India, China, Japan. Africa, Brazil or any other
distant part Of the world, II was always "con-
cocted in our Office" If all that we have been
accused OF under this head were correct we
must have made arrangements, not with such
news purveyors as Cyrus Field and the Atlantic
cable, but with Mephistopheles and his agents;
for during the last thirty years we have
always been furnished with intelligence In ad-
vance of our contemporaries, and it has gener-
ally turned out to be correct None are better
aware of this than Che Bulls and Bears Of Wall
street, and knowing it, to use the words Of
Scripture. "Like the devils. they believe and
,remble."