Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-13
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Something as to San Francisco Newspapers
Ksarnsy Puts on the War Paint-Angelenos
Permanent and Transient.


Permanent and Transient.
DEAR HERALD: A line or two of
newspaper gossip will probably not
bs amiss. California is the most
press.ridden State in the United
States and San Francisco with the
single exception of Los Angeles) is
the most press-ridden city. Com.
pared to her population Los Ange-
les has more daily newspapers than
any city in the world, barring San
Diego. AS we 60 south We more
and more encounter evidences of
intellectual activity, with the re-
sponse of q numerous press. OF all
the journals of San Francisco the
Chronicle has always been, pre-em-
inently, the "bouncer." Before the
Kalloch episode it remin ded us of
nothing SO much as of certain in
dividual, popular in negro min
strelsy one act farces, whose busi-
ness was to throw people down
stairs. 1t was eternally showing its
journalistic muscles. Its flexors and
extensors were, so to speak, always
well oiled. Such policy naturally
introduced the coupe episode. To-
day the Chronicle rivals Lambro
who, according to the veraclous
narrative of Byron, told in delicious
verse, was "the mildest man that
ever cut throat or scuttled ship"
Truth compels US to say that the
Chronicle of late has made Titanic
struggle for decency. Sorry are we
to be obliged to add that the role is
an enforced one. Since De Young
has set the example of an italian
method Of murder, with treachery
and lying-in-wait as its character
istics, like the sagacious man he
unquestionably is, when not ex-
cited, and from business stand
point, he is beginning to realize
that, ON the first overt act, the poi
soned chalice, to speak figuratively,
may be commended to his own lips.
Whatever the action of the jury
which shall try Charles De Young
whether his fate be defverance
or durance vile for a goodly term
of years-he has set an example
which, he we'll knows, will be avail
ed of by others whom he should
hereafter wrong.
IT Is ONLY RIGHT,
After stating this phase of the
matter, that we should give pass
ing tribute to the journalistic en-
ergy of these men. They have
made a splendid struggle for the
life of their Journal, though, we
think, many features of their poll
cy have been detestable. 1t
is passing hard to exagger-
ate the depths of degradation
to which the journalism of the
Pacific Coast has been reduced by
the Chronicles struggles to regain
its circulation. Page on page of
the most disgusting and vulgar per-
sonal details have disgraced its
columns, and forced other journals
to violate the instincts of good
taste of their managers in an igno-
BILE competition with the "live"
journal. Not bali now comes of
in San Francisco in which many
ugly women, dressed in execrable
taste, are not describ bed as blondes
or demi-blondes in poetic costumes,
or spirituelle brunettes, clad in raj
ment which would put out of joint
the noses, if they had any, of the
lilies of the field described in the
parable in Matthew. The most
disgusting feature of the whole
thing is that the husbands of these
homely women, badly dressed, go
and order thousands of copies of the
Chronicle containing such nauseat-
ing descriptions.
A CURIOUS THING
About the Chronicle is that, with
all its magnificent pretence of sue
cess, with its gorgeous office, and
safe which could hold all the treas
ure of the Nevada Bank, it is real
ly making plucky struggle
against bankruptcy. If It's propri-
etors will only reform their policy
and curtail their disgusting society
slush, personally 1 hope they will
win. AS the matter reaches me,
however, 1 learn that one man
owns the lands upon which their
building is erected, another indi-
vidual owns the building itself,
while the presses, about which
such vaunts are made, are owned
by Hoe and are simply rented by
the Chronicle. Their old press,
which we'll informed gossip says
was also leased, has been added to
the ample press resources of the.
Alta. En- PEASANT, 1 may say, that
the Alta, Examiner and Post are
the papers upon which the metrop-
oils must rely for the dignity
which attaches to the journalism
of the metropolis of the Pacific
Coast. l am not insensible of the
pronounced merits Of the Bulletin
In many OF its departments. But
the journals named are the only
onaa which have we'll dafined edI |