Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-03-13
MON AND AMERICAN.
SOUR WEEKLY EXCHANGES
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
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Our contemporaries Of the ''rural press
of the State, or at least quite a number Of
them, are about to raise tempest in tea
pot over the refusal Of the Banner and
UNION AND AMERICAN to exchange their
dailies for cur weeklies, aud threaten all
sorts of retaliatOry measures.
For our part, looking at the question in
strictly business point Of view, we can't see
wherein our Nashville contemporaries are
so much to blame about the matter. They
make everybody else pay ten dollars year
for their dailies, while we only ask two for
our weeklies. Then, to put the thing on
plain business footing, where is the I'M
reasonableness or injustice of the refusal?
1t is alleged by the country papers that the
Nashville dailies could not get along with
out their country exchanges, from which
TO gather up the news from all parts Of the
State, and which they are charged with APP
propriatiDg without giving proper credit.
We admit it would be quite difficult for
our metropolitan contemporaries to get up
a very interesting daily without the benefit
of this exchange. But that is not the cor
rect way, as we conceive, Of presenting the
matter. That statement Of 1t puts the
whole weekly press OF the State, an the az
qregdte, in the balance against one ddtty.
The real question is not whether al the
weeklies are not worth one daily, but Wheth-
er one weekly is worth one daily.
As to the charge Of appropriating matter
without proper credit, we suspect honors
are about easy on that score. For lllustra-
ton, the dailies furnish, every morning, all
the important dispatches, not only from all
parts ofthis country, but Of all other coun-
tries of the world and the "balance Of man
kind" These dispatches are obtained at a
heavy outlay of money every week, and
eagerly app opristed by the country press
and rehashed out every week to its readers
without dollar Of expenditure to them,
and without particle Of credit to the
dailies.
We have said this much in defence Ofour
Nashville contemporaries, while at the same
time we have perhaps more right to COM
plain about being cut off from their dailies
than any other country paper in the State.
This for the reason that, recognizing the
inequality between daily and a weekly, we
volunteered to compensate for it by publish
ing, for whole months, long prospectus
for each of the Nashville papers.
We would fain hope that our metropolitan
contemporaries had overlooked this little
Circumstance, and that when brought tc
their notice, an immediate restoration OF a
daily exchange win follow, else we don'l
know what we can do but enclose small
bill for fifty or seventy-five dollars against
each of them for advertising.
Fiat juStitid Tlldt cGlIua.
CITY DAILIEs VS.. COUNTRY WEEKLIEs
From the Bartlett Enterprise.
The prOprietOTs of the metropolitan dallles
such as the Union AND AMERICAN ant
Banner, Nashville, and Appeal and ACG
ldnche, of Memphis, have seen fit, taking
business view of the matter, TO withhold
their dailies from those country papers
which they have heretofore exchanged witt
unless the country publishers pay the differ
ence in dollars and cents, between the price
of their respective issues. Some Of on
country quill drivers have become irritate'
at t., and are discussing the matter thor
Oughly. We have before us the Lebanon
Herald, with an article savage upon IT,
UNION AND AMERICAN for dropping it
daily issue to the Herald and putting tn
Herald upon the weekly list.
The Jackson Wing and Tribune is ais
incensed at the AUaIancbe for pursuing sue
a course with it. Now, gentlemen, this
no new thing. Twenty years ago the Ap
peal did this same thing, and, excepting
a few of its most interesting country eS
changes, (without which the old AppeO
could not get along,) it sent its weekly issu
10 lieu Of the daily. We know it is trea
to country publisher to receive a daily
from which he can make free use for hi
columns, and looking at the matter thrOug
our lamps we cannot see that the Cit
publishers deserve such a "blowing" up q
some of the country press have given then
TIE NASHVILLE DAIIIES.