The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1874-05-22

in the faithf0lness or our adherence
to convictions which should be as
lasting as our being. We can at least
live forever in the immortality of our
testimony. -. ,..
PINCHRACK ON THE NEW ORLEANS
DAILY NEWSPAPERS.
The following notice of the New Or
leans dailies is from Pinchback's Lou
isianian: . .r.
There are SIX daily papers published
IN New Orleans, tO-wit: The Picayune,
Bee, Times, Republican, German Ga
Zette and Bulletin. Journals in other
cities are greater in their relative than
in their personal qualities. They are
great, not SO much for what they are,
as what they stand for. Consequently,
one of the sensitive points in Journal
ism is its representative character.
1t is probable that no city can fur
nish a series of journals that claim
more and represent loss than the city
of New Orleans.
The Republican,, the official journal
and chief paper of its party, whatever
else it stands for, represents tho author
tiles of the State Of Louisiana, and has,
therefore, super-adtletl influence and
Importance to that which legitimately
belongs to it, on the score of its gener-
ally well considered and we'll digested
political and commercial articles.
The Bee and Bulletin, modest and
not very pretentious journals, represent
the honest, prejudiced, anti-RepubIi-
can classes, and tho hard fistcd, pow
erty-stricken and respectable white
element
No appreciative man can read these
gotten up and ably con-
Quoted journals without instinctively
feeling that they lack funds, and that
the comfort of the proprietors is sacri-
feed to secure the respectable appear
ance of their journals. They are not
always just in their judgments nor
in their estimates of Oppo-
nents, but they impress us us honest
and able, and even the strokes of their
severity make the wounds Of friend.
These Journals, if the survive the over
flow and the neglects of the Levee
Company, will exercise healthy in
huence upon the body polite and 10
good.
The Picayune, the Times and tho
Gazette, especially the two former, are
and claim, to represent "the
Oldest and best'' of this Godforsakcn
The truth is, these, journals represent
neither wealth nor votes, but simply
their owners, and, despite their pre-
tensions, they do not lead, but follow
the crowd, and are not especially par
ticular as to the character of the lead
ership, so that out of the passions and
prejudices to which they pander,
grows an increasing advertising list.
They are not the mouthpieces Of the
people, but attractive simply for their
news, gossip and scandal, and are in
what the broker is in trade,
not producers nor creators of public
opinion, but simply middle men, trad
ing on the prejudices of the public.
These journals are of the "good
Lord,' "good devil" order, and
arc not particular to whom their allie
glance is given 80 they put money in
their purse.
They especially affect the champion
ship, not of the ordinary vagahond and
criminal, but of the respectable rascal,
making that an "irregularity in the
latter, which they wonld call crime
in the former.
Editorial ability is not lacking in
these Journals, but the management is
vicious-the vice consisting in an as
sumption of independence not really
possessed, and an impartiality rarely
ever exercised, and the settled purpose
I" utilize the press for purely personal
ends.
In view of the prctcntiOus supcrciI-
i"usncss and impudcncc cropping out
in these journals, in season and out of
season, against their more humble but
really more respectable ncighbors and
considering the really insignificant fol-
lowing belonging to them, we are dis
posed to quote Don Piatt on Colfnx,
that "thcy run more machinery for
the size of their boilers than any pa
pcrS wc know
Mr.. George Bancroft, Grants miinis-
ter to Germany, has recently made
treaty with that country by which says
the Baltimore Gazette, American nat
uralized citizenship, instead Of being
is limited for two years after
a return to their native country. a
German naturalized here, going back
on visit to the fatherland, if detained
by business, or sickness or accident, moro
than two years, without any violation
of his own rclapses into Prilssian or
Bavarian subject, and may be and