The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-31

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- jokes about everything, and are only
kbilant when in the exuberance of their fancy
I they make the most common event ridiculous
| by their bombast and extravaganza. The Sun
| and the World are particularly notorious for
this description Of newspaper hyperbole They
indulge 30 frequently in burlesque and Nun
chausensms that Il is difficult to discover when
| they tell the truth or relate facts. AT one
time one of these daily flctions passes preten-
| tious Judgment upon who will and who will
not be members Of the Cabinets what shall
and what shall not be done with the various
| Offices from ambassadorships down to tide
walters; arranges under astonishing headings
the fabulous gossip of private clubs, as we'll as
| imaginary interviews with distinguished indi-
| viduals, and often elaberates upon and ex-
| pands simple fact 50 W to envelop the whole
| narration In fog and mystery. Then, again, we
have another of these papers wandering from
the proper fields of judcious journalism and
poking its nose into the wine cellars, sugar bins
and pepper boxes Of our grocers and dealers,
and inveutiug some grim joke about wholesale
poisonings that would alright almost any
community not accustomed to its yagaries
and sensation absurditics.
These papers have notion that this style
Of Journalism was what made the HERALD.
But they are very much mistaken. II WAS
nothing of the Sort II the HERALD ia the
early days Of its unexampied career INDUCED
in amusing relations thoro were wit reason
nd 9th oa In, thcpa a. ,;e
But il was cesseless vigilance, untiring energy
and unrivalled enterprise In the procurement Of
late and important newsstand paying literally
for it--from all parts of the world it was in
gathering and recording interesting local facts
and incidents, In advocating local improve
ments that exist to this day and will long exist
as lasting monuments to the enterprise of our
citizens as well as to the sagaoity of the
HERALD in urging them; IL was in its aid to
all grand enterprises In which steam aud cleo
tricity were concerned, from Professor Morses
first magnetic telegraph experiment between
Baltimore and Washington down to the latest
scientific wonder Of the age, the laying Of the
Franco American cable; Ii was its fearless ex-
posure of official corruptions, and especially
in its independent course in exploding the
tricks and prlcking the bubbles Of the stock
jobbers in Wall street, and its jealous support
of sound and well balanced financial system
for the nation generally; it was by engaging
in measures Of great public moment like these
and many others that ''made the HERALD"
At first our merchants and capitalists thought
it impossible that IN uupretcnding sheet like
the HERALD, conducted upon the cheap cash
plan, should dare to invade the dominion of
journalism, then exclusively occupied by the
big, burly subscription papers In Wall street.
But il was not long before the mercantile |
community, the sonnd financial men, the rep |
resentatives of all respectable classes of |
society, became convinced that the HERALD !
was eclpsing the old newspaper concerns in
furnishing almost daily aud exclusively the
most important Intelligence they soon real
lied the truth that its facts were indeed facts
and not fictions. It's credit for reliability In
regard to news once established, over thirty
years ago, there was nothing left for the
HERALD but mission Of unparalleled pros
perity. The people Of that day saw there
that once paraded in the columns of the old
Sun-the grandfather of the present luminery,
which seems to have been singularly success
full in inheriting the prominent weakness of it's
ancestor. And just as the people thirty odd
years ago began to have faith in the HERALD's
facts and figures, so that faith has been re-
tanned to the present day, while the mythical
club gossip aud bufoonery of the Sun and
the humbug and harlequinism of the World
are calculated to keep those papers and all
others conducted as they are in the background
Of journalism so long they shall be suffered to
have glimmering existence at all. No daily
newspaper can ever be substantially established
upon a foundation OF buriesaue Ii will be
''played OUT sooner or later, just as the opera
bouje has been "played out under Bateman,
Grau and Fisk, Jr.; and when the papers of
this day appreciate this aud learn 80
deal in facts, stubborn fscIs without
duting them until they become unrecog-
nizabis in q mass Of jokes rubbish and baider-
dash, and when they begin to emulate
the liberality of the HERALD in ransaeking
every quarter Of the globe for fresh and rea-
BILE Intelligence to be presented to its readers,
then they may be prepared to enter the field of
journalism as rivals to the HERALD and not
until then-perhaps not even then.
TAMMANY HALL 20 TIKI RR5oUR Mr.
| Tweed, Grand Sachem, has ordered meeting
of the Tammany Society on Monday evening
next, for the purpose OF defining her posi-
ton on the Cuban question and the Irish
! question. Mayor Hall, Richard 0Gorman