The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-20
The Heather Mt Our Own Doors.

describes the state oil society In Alaska and st.
Mary streets. His description Is graphic and
irishtfu; but does not exceed the truth. 10 Is lar
better than anything OF the sort that our city
papers have ever furnished, though they have
made several attempts to give startling descrip-
tons OF the squalor, wretchedness and crime Of
these places. Now that the HERALD Is served to
subscribers In this city as early as our own morn
ing papers. 1t is well that It should give attention
to Philadelphia matters, and 1t has begun well in
thus showing up the physical, moral and intelec-
tual condition or such streets as Alaska, st.
Mary, &c.
1t Is proper that the world should te informed
through . journal OF universal circulation, what
goddess neghbornoods, what miniature hels exist
here as the outgrowth or cody Philadephla's
boosted morality, benevolence. ''brotherly love"
aud religion; for the universal exposure may
shame our wealthy and pious people into taking
earnest measures to rid our community OF these
moral and social plague-spots something more
than occasional vlslJs and spasmOdic effort Is ne
cessary To purify these pest-holes. Talk and tracts
are OF no avail acre. Practice. not preaching. Is
wanted.
1t isa reproach and disgrace to this city that
these disgusting moral sores nave been 80 long
large upon the body polite. While we have been
collecting thousands upon thousands OF dollars TO
send to the heather In Asia and Africa and the
Islands OF the sea the steeple shadows OF some of
the very churches In which these thousands have
been collected cross and fall upon the vile dens OF
thousands OF our fellow creatures than whom no
greater heathens or more degraded wretches exist
on Gods earth. What more striking commentary
upon our criminal Inconsistency as profess
TACT aud the TACT that within but u short
distance OF these hordes OF our own
Gated TO the diffusion OF Christian princlples-Dibe
houses, the Sunday school Union buildings re-
ligious publication houses, as well as ostentatious
church edidcesS While the Young Mems Christian
Association have purchased very valuable ground
on which they are about to erect very expensive
building for their headquarters, thousands OF their
fell0w-beings, within lew Squares are suffer
ing from the want not only OF the "bread Of life"
eternal, but the bread necessary 10 sustain physi-
Cal life, and are living In Undesirable moral
wretchedness and wtckedness. Where else. on the
face OF the globe, do the temporal and eternal ne
Christian hearth
Nothing in heather countries can be found to ex-
coed, ii to equal the moral degradation OF these
near neighbors OF our protesting Christians. Yet
our clergymen, with but few exceptions, with their
eyes liked on Hlndostan or Timbuctoo, overlook
these wretches at their own doors and plead pite-
0usly for money to send missionaries to the or
heathen These ministers OF the Christian religion
and the great majority OF our protesting Christians
seem ignorant or the existence so near them OF
men, women and children, chiefly Of their own
race VINO require everything the way OF Christian
treatment and teaching That any human beings
can require.
Millions are spent in building nne churches and
paying fine preachers; in printing Bibles and
religious books and periodicals; In defraying the
expenses OF missionaries in foreign lands aud col
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promote the Gospel OF charity but not q cent to
reform and raise up the fallen OF Alaska aud st.
Mary streets and other IKE localities right here
At homel What Is 1t the blessed Saviour saysY-
thirsty and 20 save ne no drink was Stranger, ana
ana in prison, and ye visited Me not
Verify .y you 4 ye did not to ono
And these Those who failed do these things shall 90
away into everlasting punishment
Our Philadelphia Christians fail to recognize In
n faad
cOthe and raise up even "the least meanesu Of
these" wrctched jewellers In Alaska and other
Mrs. Jellaby and devote their time and attention
to the inhabitants OF countries thousands OF miles
away Ws rsro,t r. .. xeu ,,ot IN. .,or,oom,,r. -,
our Christian professors and people generally, in
respect TO human wretchedness In this city, should
be exposed 10 the world at large, and the HERALD
has exposed IL In q truthful manner, strange and
startling as It's statements may appear.
journalism in . Business Point OF View.
From the Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, July 1871
Several weeks ago 1t was currently reported
that there was being negotiated with the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company or Its officers an arrange
ment by means OF which the leading New York
daily morning newspapers could and would be
delivered In this city as early as seven O'Clock
A. NJ. This Is now accomplished by the NEW YORK
HERALD, which Is served TO its Philadelphia sub
scrIbers almost, II not quiet early any OF our
own morning papers. This Is enterprise against
which 1t would be a. unreasonable as idle and
useless to protest In the matter OF furnishing
news to the public there must be freedom OF
competition IS well as In any other business, and
no one can be blamed for taking 1t from those
who supply 1t most abundantly and promptly At q
fair price.
II, then, the New York papers, served here at
the same hour daily, should interfere with the cir.
of NJ a o1~xhgn
must strive to equal them in all the essential ele.
ments Of nrst class vehicles Of news, rather than
weakly complain OF the rivalry as avaricious and
intrusive But in this contest Philadelphia jour-
nalists must suffer the serious double disadvan-
tage Of . greatly inferior amount OF working
pecuniary capital, and unequal facilities for OBJ
tanning domestic and foreign news Tie latter IL
attributable to the geographical situation OF this
city; the former to the very small support in al.
vertising which our local press enjoys in compart
son with the enormous revenue which that OF New
York receives from New Workers. II Is their diff
ference in these two vital respects and not as re-
CARDS enterprise and intelligence, which makes
the papers Of one city more valuable and accepta-
bic to the generality OF readers than those OF the
other.
The press Of New York Is one OF its institutions.
1t is recognized as an element OF great power in
the social and business economy OF that metrop-
oils. 1t has done as much, II not more, than any
other agency to build that city up and make 1t the
central seat, not only OF news, but Of commercial
and financial influence in this hemisphere. The
New Workers understand very well why their
journalism is so potential. They know that
newspaper press can no more become eminent in
general excellence and er1ciency without the
pecuniary income required to meet Tvs immense
expenses than a huge machine can be operated
without adequate motive power. 4.
They have therefore, done all that was neces-
sary to be done for their twelve or more leading
daily journals, by giving them generous and
steady support-a munidcent and unfailing reve-
nue. from advertising. The press In its turn has
been at once enabled and encouraged to do the city
of New York. with all It's mutiiarous and Infinitely
varted interests. a kind and amount Of service