The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-25
NEWSPAPERS WITHOUT NE Ws.

The EUersSng Bulletin reminds us of the fox
in the fable which, after losing his tail, en-
deavored to convince his brethren and the
world in general that tails were useless and
dangerous incumbrance. It's eloquence in
depicting the disadvantages of such append
ages finds a fitting counterpart in the at
tempts of the Bulletin to prove that reliable
news is not essential to a modern newspaper.
The Bulletin alleges that it has 'found COM
fort in the saving of handsome sum" which
it formerly paid weekly to obtain intelligence
from the source which supplies every in
fuential and important journal in the United
States; and if its readers rest content
with stinted supply of news,
we will be ready to acknowledge
the force of this branch of the short-tail ar
however, we will not be convinced either by
the Establishments or the abuse of the Bulletin
that superior facilities for procuring and
promptly furnishing faithful record of the
current events of this stirring age should be
hastily exchanged for imperfect arrangements.
While the Bu letin has been saving "a hand
some sum" weekly in its expenditure for
news, we have nearly doubled our outlay for
this purpose, and thereby acquired the ex-
elusive right to publish afternoon editions of
the dispatches furnished by the Associated
Press, and we have ''found comfort in
the prompt and generous appreciation
of the superiority of our telegraphic
Intelligence by the public. The Bul
1etiss is welcome to all the satisfaction it
can derive from its savings, and we shall not
envy it if it continues its reductions of ex-
penditures for news until it virtually ignores
all the facilities which the telegraph affords
to modern journalism. 1t may follow its
descent from the Associated Press to the
American Press Association by sinking into
still lower depths, without inspiring us with
the slightest desire to follow its example, for
we intend to adhere stubbornly to the couvic-
ton that short-tails are not good newspaper
fashion. Our amiable and ingenious contem'
porary has nourished the hope that the news
association with which it is now connected
would be reinforced in its opera
tions in this city by the assis-
tance of ''the new morning paper which Mr..
Swain, son of the founder of the Ledger, is
about to publish" But that gentleman sets
too high value on abundant and correct in-
telligence to jeopardize his new enterprise by
an alliance with the Bulletin and its asso-
ciates. He has applied for and gained admis-
sion by unanimous consent to the old-estab-
lished Associated Press, of Philadelphia,
thereby showing that the Associated Press is
not the unpopular monopoly that they are
endeavoring to impress the public that
it is; thus making stronger than
ever the organization which furnishes
the regular dispatches published in The
EVENING TELEGRAPH, and destroying tho main
reliance of the American Press Association,
in this city, for future efficiency. The Bulletin
has invented the fanciful theory that the
Associated Press is ''terribly frightened.
Will it be good enough, when it corrects its
misstatement about Mr.. SWANS new paper,
to explain the sensations awakened among
its associates by the arrangements made fol
supplying telegraphic dispatches to thai
journal?