New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-25
NEwyoRK DAILY TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER s5 1878

Offices of other theatres that If the criticisms Oh
TuE TRrpuSE are not made more fatterng, the
managers will inflict upon us the tremendous penalty
of stopping their advertisements Many Oh theH'
in past years have carried the threat into executions
but still THE TRIBUNE prospers, still the country
and the profession continue to regard the diamauc
critic of this paper as of the most accomplished
malicious and upright of his craft, and still the
public is accustomed to ratify his Verdlc's oy
damning bad and trashy plays. We trust tnat nc
will long contribute to our columns the thoughtIui
and independent remarks upon the Drama WHICH
have done so much to elevate the character OF news
paper discussion on matters of art; and if the gen.
tlemen in the box Office imagine that they can IN
fluence him, or u.s. by stopping their advertise
ments" we shall be pleased to see them try the ex-
pertinent.
At a recent meeting of Baptist clergymen In this
city, after an earnest discussion of the question
whether ministers of the Gospel should smoke and
chew tobacco the subject of prOfessedly religious
daily newspaper was taken up. The proprietor OF
such journal which, after desperate struggle,
is now defunot, had sent note appealing for AID
in the renewal Of its publication. 1t is the opinion
of this publisher that there should be religious
daily in every great city; and as to New-YOrk, we
suppose that 1t is his opinion that he should print
it. We trust that we shall not be deemed Obtru-
sive in dissenting from each of these views. We do
not think that religious daily is needed for the
sake Of it's intelligence, which may from its nature
be presented in much more useful and compact
form in a weekly; nor was there anything in the
religious daily already had to make of different
mind. Perhaps our memory does it injustice; per
haps we did not peruse it with sufficiently con-
slant assiduty but recollection certainly Is
that 1t badly made up, badly printed. and lack
ing even in the peculiar recommendations to public
favor which it specially claimed. Perhaps 1t would
have won no better success even If success had
been merited. The people are accustomed to weekly
religious newspapers, of which there are many
carefully conducted Moreover, each denomina-
tion for obvious reasons likes to have its own and
seven or eight daily religious newspapers, we take
it, are out of the question. Add to this that many
of the secular dailies, If may call them So give
the religious news with more less thorOughness.
and it is easy TO see that the religious daily has no
reason for being Moreover. it is NOT in the power
of any synods or conventions to sustain a newspa-
per. 1t must sustain itself without begging, or it
must die.
There is nothing mean about Wade Hampton. lie
assures the South Carolina negroes that he will
never oppose universal suffrage so long as it gives
the South thirty-hye more members of Congress and
thiryfve more votes in the Electoral College than
would otherwise belong TO it, And he might have
added, so long as cOlOred men can be rihe-clubbed
into xotin0 tho neunocratic ticlret