The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-12
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To the Newark Daily Journal is due tho
credit OF discovering new power and new
usefulness in the HERALD-a power and use
fulness which. strange to- say, had hitherto
been overlooked by the HERALD itself The
Journal, in an article which we publish else
where. is evidently appreciative of the ordi-
nary achievements of an enterprsing news
paper, and is prepared to give its metropolitan
contemporary due credit for all it has accom-
plished from the days when its original
founder ''raked out of the ashes of the base
ment fire in Nassau street the institution
which has since grown to be the worlds
leader down to the moment when its faith
full Cuban correspondent lies in dungeon at
Manzanillo with the knives of clamorous
assassins at his throat The Abyssinian war.
the Livingstone expedition, the hiding place
of the Swamp Angels, the Modoc camp in the
lava beds, the submerged bowels of the
wrecked Atlantic" Cuba Libre, and, lastly, the
prison at Manzanillo. all in their turn, says
the Journal, stand out in bold relief as land
marks to note the brilliant path of the HERALD
on the highway of newspaper enterprise. But
greater than all these, in the eyes Of
the New Jersey organ, is recent
achievement by which the HERALD
shielded effectually human being from tho
knife of the assassin" A railroad conductor,
while on his way home to Red Bank, was set
upon in lonely place by several rufians, who
were surprised at his temerity in venturing
out at night in the savage wilds of New Jersey,
alone and apparently unarmed One of the
miscreants thrust knife into the conductors
side, but was met by blow which sent him
reeling to the earth. The felon stab had failed
to injure the assailed party, for in the breast
pocket of his overcoat, just where the would
be assassin's blow was aimed, the fortunate
conductor carried copy of the HERALD.
doubled into sixteen thicknesses, which re-
ceived the knife and saved his life. So the
Journal recommends to the consideration of
the Secretary of the Navy the suggestion of
the HERALD as q substitute for iron-pated
armor, and laments to reflect that the peculiar
qualities of this great daily paper were I'M
known to the Crusaders and to the great Ma
poleon.
Well, it is not the first time that the HERALD
has proved barrier in the.way of assassins
and other criminals, not through its thick
ness, but by reason of its lucidisy; not by
being folded up and kept in the pocket but
by being opened out and read. The knives of
other ruf6ans besides that of the New Jersey
footpad have been turned aside through the
instrumentality of the HERALD, for we claim
to have done much towards drawing down
upon murderers their just doom, and to
have thus fulfilled our part in checking the
fearful food OF crime that recently swept over
the metropolis. Even now the HERALD is
doing its best to protect the life of an innocent
man threatened with death in Cuba because
he has faithfully discharged duty he had I'M
dertaken, and in this labor we trust we shall
receive the aid and cooperation of generous
press all over the world. Nor is it only as q
'sbreastplate against the assassin's knife that
the HERALD hopes to be utilized" AS
public journal it strives to make itself
''breastplate'' against vice, ignorance, bigotry
and wrong wherever they may strive to make
their assaults on society. This is the principal
aim of the mission which SO exoites the
admiration o" the Newark Journal and this
object will never end while the HERALD has an
existence.