The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-10-10
GOOD AND Evil DONE BY THE
PRESS.


We had thought 1t an enterprise |
worthy of emulation and contemplated |
the execution of the purpose, but the |
question arises whether more evil than |
pod Is not done by the systematic col
ption by telegraph, each morning, of
devilish deeds of the day before.
docs it avail anything good to thrust a
dozen fires, robberies and murders,
each morning at breakfast, into decent
peoples faces? What must civilized
pen abroad think of the two millions
Texas who can pander, through a
zlhgle newspaper, so successfully to
bis passion for the sensational and the
horrible Popular tastes are surely and
sadly perverted, and If Texas would
evoke the bad and murderous of all
lands and repel the virtuous and good.
Texas should distribute over the world
zach days edition of the Galveston
Nesos. A newspapers business Is
10 publish facts. II is each
morning a picture of the day be-
fore set up in type. What hideous
picture does our excellent Galveston
c6nten1pssSry cftsH become of this
great commonwealth. Its nightly con-
iributors seem especially devoted to
the aggregation of horrible, CHASTITY
facts, and Texas, as seen through the
Ners, is often a veritable hell. Per-
haps this assiduous search for terrible
facts to print creates the facts. Pub
lie executions are objected to because
Ddlgar mob so lauds pluck under
khe gallows that courageous knaves
seek an opportunity to win deathless
fame through the infamy of death at
the ropes end. Many a desperate,
dIabolical deed may hsYe been done In
Texas in order that the reckless culprit
Bay be honored by telegraphic notice
IN the pages of the Neaos. We have
Aisticuffs in Houston, bloody noses in
Dallas, big DRINKS in Fort Worth,
Cnffee-shooting by constables in Aus
tin, horrible assassination at La
Grange, family roasting at Hockey,
Spanish stilettos doing awful work
at San Antonio, and these constitute
the warp and wool of stories tele-
y Rraphed from all directions to the Nelos.
It Is well to have special dispatches
hnd fortunate that newspaper is pub
lished at point whence its circulation
enables it to pay for them, but it las
often occurred to US that the CORE
r6ondents of the Neics are not wisely
Instructed. They should furnish a
scription of intellectual food that
say not do infinite detriment to the
morals .aaga tastes aud property of those
= d. Weare given an infamous
stion abroad, and if our tastes
US to peter such reading matter,
aely deserve the fame the facts
the Ne.cs cooperate in giving US.
The press of Texas Is constantly
complaining of the injustice done the
State by the Inter ocean and other
like newspapers of the North; but
when We reflect that a great Texas
newspaper devotes its wealth and ener-
Ries 10 the aggregation, in its daily
numbers, of every devilish deed done
within the confines of the common
wealth, and when the Inter Ocean
reads and copies and believes, how
can we condemn2 The Ne,0s becomes
q great club in the hands of our North.
bfn enemies with which our own heads
are broken, and Texas is not only dis
eraced but impoverished, and worse
still, the worst elements of foreign So
clet5 are attracted, and the best re-
PEELED, BY each terrible story of blood
fnat1eddens, beneath the glare of the
rising sun, the pages of the Galveston
Niece