The New York herald., 1870-08-29
Cnble observation-disclosures Enterprise v.
Newspaper Trickcry.

Newspaper TricLcry.
Nearly all our daily city journals are receiv-
ing more or less. according to their financial
capabilities, >cable dispatches touching the
movements and developments in Europe
from day to day, military and political, con-
nected with this gigantic war between France
and the allied German States. Of these
dispatches the HERALD specials as records of
facts, we may say, without injustice to our
contemporaries, are more nearly correc. and
more comprehensive than any others, because
we have spared no labor or expense to make
them So The rules Of the Associated Press,
OF which the HERALD is a member, require
that the private news dispatches of every
journal concerned shall be shared among its
colleagues, and that every such despatch
when received ''shall be Immediately handed
over to the agent of the Association to be
copied and delivered to the several papers of
the Association in the same manner as other
telegraphic news is delivered"
We have always held this to be an unwse
rule-a check upon individual enterprise and
an advantage only to the negligent, the incom-
petent and the slow coaches of the Associa-
ton, in sharing equally the fruits of the labor
of collecting telegraphic news, which has
chiefly fallen upon the HERALD. Having
been forced to accept the rule, we have faith
fully complied withs its conditions, carefully
avoiding any evasion, hedging or double
dealing Not so is it with that model of all the
virtues and of all propreties, the Tribune
That journal, on the contrary, since the COM
mencement of this European war, has deliber-
ately evaded and violated this law. 1t has ap-
propriated to itself, under the weak devices of
the shoplifter, the property of the Association
to which it belongs; it has been playing the
game of obtaining credit and money upon false
pretences. Its enterprise is fraud, and it's
exclusive news is stolen goods. 1t has de-
prived its associates of news which belonged
to taem, while it has been sufficiently adroit as
an ''arttul dodger' to hold them to their full
share Of the expense. And as Robert Macaire
hohrished in triumph the handkerchief filched
from neighbors pocket, so boasts the Tri-
6U,ae ofits achievements in this dirty business.
peryersion of rule of our Association which
requires that if any part of despatch to any
member of the league, if even word of it is
used by any other member, the payment
therefor shall be the proportion that would
be required for the whole despatch. There is
another rule of the Association under which
all special dispatches that are received by any
member after one o'clock A. M. shall be sent
to the office of the Associated Press instead of
being sent to the paper to which they are ad-
dressed, in order that they may be promptly
copied and distributed to the several papers
concerned. To avoid this rule or law of the
Association the Tribune has had its dispatches,
likely to come in after the hour designated,
addressed to one of its subordinates as an
Outsider" trick which neatly cuts off the
Association from such dispatches until it is
convenient for the Tribune to furnish them to
colleagues 'just in time to be too late" for its
publication in their morning edition, unless in
mutiated form, but still in time to exact
Now, as John Randolph is said once to have
remarked in Congress, referring to certain in
dividuals of the Barnum school, "These men
may be very smart, and this, Mr. Speaker,
may be called Yankee enterprise and Yankee
shrewdness; but sir, according to our old
fashioned notions it is Yankee trckery and
Yankee swndling."
Two VICTORIES. We have reports to-day