The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1875-08-19
From the Chicago Tribune. ]
THE NgH Y0kK PRESS.
A Journalistic Happy FamIIy-SOme
Suggestions for Mr.. Barnum.

Il SVhA u1thHNlN A4UUy
suggestions for M. Barnum.
We regret 10 see that the Ne,
York daily newspapers are all by I'll
ears, and are chawiBg, scratching an
! snariiRg at each other, an
calling each other all sorts OF har
names. The Tribune, the Tines, til
World, the Herald, the Sun aud tn
Graphic are the principal offender,
but all the little concerns are az
} also, just as when the big dogs ge
into fight all the small ours vel
and snap around them, at : safe dis
tance from the scene Of combat. Tn
Times accuses the Tribune Of obtain
ing money under false pretenses b
misrepresenting its circulation, an
offers to bet fabulous sums that it ha
the largest circulation. The World
like some vigorous Amazon hOHlin
at her opponent, keeps shrisking "Ia
Gouldn ct the Tribune, now and theI
stopping to give the Tines piece O
its mind. The Sifn works hself int
frenzy over all three papers, al
though the Tribune has been Sun
struck the most. The Herald is run
ming a-muek, hitting everybody. Thr
Tribune bits back manfully, but won
mention any Of its assaihnts by
name. 1t treats them all with loft
disdain, turns up its nose ct them
won't speak to them on tse street
draws its skirts about itself when Il
passes them, and as the averags
female who gets mad with some 9th
er crushed her with the overwhelm.
ing epithet "that wOmann so the
Tribune from the top of its tall tower
sneeringly alludes 10 its antagonist
as ''that paper" All this is sad,
Goethe sings. son every height there
lies repose ~ most certainly, then,
should there be peace and rest and
and serene tranquility was up in thai
tall tower, instead of the noise and
confusion which now prevail there.
But the fault is not alone with the
Tribune. All of these papers are
equally to blame, according to the
measure of their strength, and the
saddest feature of the scrimmage is
the example which they are setting
TO the newspapers outside of New
York city. We have hitherto
been asked to believe that
all the intellect, the brllliancy,
the virtue, the respectability, and
the enterprise of the newspaper world
was confined to the New York city
papers. They are held up by them.
selves as models to copy. They never
tire of reminding the world that they
are 1.-THE metropolitan press" and ali
other newspapers are provincial. -
Periodically they condescend to give
US outsiders lesson in the amenities
OF journalism. As oracles. they fur
nish the authors, and picture
painters, and impressariOs with
certificates which the provincial
papers are expected to honor at sight.
Aud now what a spectacle do these
great eXemplars, these mOnOpolists of
all that is nice and good in Journal
ism, these pompOns, high-toned,
swell-fronted, eye-glassed and swal-
low-tailed teachers and leaders in
newspaper literature, present us with
their vulgar snarling and slanderous
back-biting Aud In hot weather,
too I! In the month of August, even,
when the dog star is supposed to rage,
and dogs run mad, and cholera NOR
bus prevails Now il the guides, and
teachers, and philosophers of Journal
ism, the A No. l, gilt-edged editors,
the very creme de Ia creme OF the pro-
fession, conducts itself in this ruffian-
ly and low-tOned manner, is it any
wonder that tue Podunk Gazette, and
the Squanaeook Herald of Freedom,
the Chicago Times, and the Stddts-
get foul of each other and
empty buckets of Billingsgate upon
one another, and make themselves a
general nuisance in their respective
neighberhOods? They have not had
the education and advantages of the
metropolitan press. They are not
high-tOned. They do not belong to
Arcadian Clubs, and Lotus Clubs, ard
Swallow-Tail Clubs do not live in
tall towers, can not have front seats
at the opera, sail splendid yachts,
drive fast horses at Jerome Park, have
beer saloons in their easements, with
elevators attached, entertain pretty
actresses and prima dOnnas, and have
the first shy at Dukes, Princes, and
Prineesses, and all manner of foreign
and domestic pOtentates and digni-
taries. They have had none of these
advantages. 1t will, therefore, not be
il all the provincial papers
get at each other, tooth and claw, and
commence to make the fur fly In imi-
tatiOn of the metropolitan press Of
New York, with the essential differ
ence, however, that the provincial
entertainment will be the most en-
jOyable, since it means business, and
is much more earnest, direct, incisive,
and personal, than the very heavy
and stupid. manner in which the
metropolitan newspapers attack each
other.
If this scrimmage is not stopped be-
fore long, we shall have a proposition
to make. Mr.. Bsrnum once organ
iEed Happy Family, and caused to
dwell in the same cage, on terms of
peace and amity, cats and the dogs
that do worry. them, hawks, doves,
and rabbits, porcuplnes, rats, weasels
and hedgehOgs, eagles, ring-tailed
and speckled monkeys, coons, chick
ems, Oposums, foxes and geese, and
numerous other animals, very close
ly resem bling the New York dailies,
that in their natural state were ae-
customed to fight with or to dine up
on each other. The great Snowman
in some magical way exhibited dogs
and cats eating from the same dish,
cOons and chickens drinking from the
same pan, foxes and geese prOmen-
aiding together, rats and mice frolick-
ing with the weasels, aud puppies and
pusseys and the ring-tailed and speck-
led monkeys playing all sorts of
pranks upon the rest of the
family with the most perfect
impunity. No cloud of trouble
ever appeared in this happy family.
They were always peaceable aud toll
Grant Of each Others peculIarities and
habits, even when the hungriest. We
have sometimes thought that Bar
mum, who has always q great moral
purpose underlying his humbugs, and
the New York city press in his minds
eye when he organized his Happy
Family. But whether he did or not,
to teach them a lesson from life, if
the scrimmage is not stopped before
long, the Snowman should step in and
undertake the work of collecting the
rats, cats, dogs, weasle5, he'd geh ogs,
cOOns, geese and monkeys OF the met
ropOlitan press and transforming them
into happy family from the brawl-
ing, noisy, .clsmOrous, bac&-biting
mob that they are. Having done this,
he should then be allowed the privi-
iege of exhibiting them to the provin-
ciaI papers living together in amity,
eating out OF the same pans, and
never even snarling and swapping at
each other. The example will be pro-
ductive of very useful results, for so
long as the metrOpOlitans are scratch
ing and gouging each other, the prOvin-
cials will also gouge and scratch, and
old Storey will not let Hessing alone,
until some one day when longer for
bearance ceases to beA virtue-bnt we
dare not think of it.
An Interesting story.