Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-02-10

HE lSTELLIGENCEI mus. be in bad way
IL must BE- in n particularly bad way When
ever that paper gets in a particularly bad way
its bile Stops over in the shape Of two or three,
or four, or five columns of muddled rant, in
which almost invariably may be found some
disereditable attack upon the business Of its
neighbors. This morning it has a splenetic
column headed 1.-The Prosperity of the InteUi-
SeHcer," in which il essays TO show how i'm
mense is its circulation. ssSunday included " and
how impregnably II Is established in the esteem
Of the people, who, one and all believe that il
there ever was a Romanly virtuously con-
Quoted paper, il is the National IntsIIi2eneer,
'.under its present management" The Hnte6.
GER, er introduces the following lucid, grammati-
cal, metaphorIcal, and generally remarkable
statement. designed we suppose, in some occult
way TO illustrate its text, e., the prosperity of
the Iateihgencsr:
Tens of thousands upon tens of thousands of
.lacobIns thus entrenched in public office con-
kadlCalism can train their dIabolical enginery,
blaCk and huge, against the people, who are
bTaNeIy battling IN the open field, unsupported
bN oiher means than the weapons of truth,
hacked by whatever of small earnings that are
not wr6sted by the tax gatherers to pay an
eAorbitant interest upon the public debt debt
De ID mainly by shOddy robbers, at the extor-
UOnafe, usurious, and unconscionable rate of
forty per cent. off from gold values at date of
negotiations OF Government securities by de-
structiye rulers, whose sole object was to estab-
fish negro supremacy in the Southern States,
and TO give TO II the control of the politics of the
entITe nation"
Now this would really appear TO be pretty
unhealthy state of affairs. We are not prepared
10 contrOyert the statement, because we don't
understand II. Doubtless if the Jacobins by
some hocus POcus have been constituted for
tTesses, and the rotten Radicals have got inside
10 xKhn bax thuS hoor
fOrtresses. and are training their diabolical
black, large enginery inside the Jacobins, who
have thus been constituted fortresses, it must
be rad for the Jacobins. Doubtless the
other items of the statement show an equally
unpleasant intestinal condition for the parties
named, but we have not been able to muster
breath 10 mount the InteUig>Rcer's remarkable
climax. With the IsteHigsneer's blast upon
lie own horn we find no fault, but We refer
10 its untruthful attack in the same con-
nCctiOn upon the business of its neighbors
as Illustrative of spirit too common
amongst the newspaper "fraternity."
II So ms TO that the maxim of ssLiye and let
live might be followed in the newspaper bust
mess as well as in any other; but the practice is
quite otherwise. Instead Of cooperating to sus-
tain the dignity of the profession and to make il
remunerative one, rather than, as it il, the
worst paid business going, we find il TO b. gen.
orally the case that newspaper men aim TO IN
derbid and pull down their fellows; something
in the same spirit that aetuates the ragged street
bOy,whO, seeing another ragged street boy enjoy
ing free ride, shouts enyiously, s.Cut behind!''
At advertising counters it is not uncommon 70
hear such phrases as, why do you patronIze
that radical sheet - or, why do you adver-
tse in that copperhead concern T. or, Your
money will BE- thrown away in that paper; it
don't circulate amongst the respectable class ~
or, Nobody will see your advertisement in tibet
psper; il has no general circulation"
Now why not say this to the advertiser, and
every intelligent newspaper man knows that il
Il true, Why not say to him, .'Sir, you cannot
go amiss. Your advertisement Is sure TO repay
you many times over if put in any paper, or in
all As business man you must necessarily
advertise with US, but you will find YOUR
money well spent in advertising in all the
papers"
Would not this advice be strictly true, and
would not practice upon ii serve to advance
newspaper interests generality Is it not pos
sable to make the newspaper business more CO.
operative and fraternal and less of scout.
throat" nature than il is at present conducted:
or must we wait until the millennium for that
happy refOrml