Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-04
n Sunday Tribune.

From the New York Tribune of Saturday,I
MIR. Greedy printed a regular Sunday edition
of the Tribune in 1861. Since then we have
contented ourselves with paper six days a
week; and it is with the greatest reluctance
that we have been led to contemplate return
to the Sunday issue. Every other morning
paper in the city, however, has long since made
Sunday issue one of its principal features;
ana for years the united demands of our read
ers and advertisers for a paper on the day
when they say they want it most have grown
constantly harder to resist. The habit of New
Workers In this respect has greatly changed since
the war. They read newspapers. more than
books, and they read more on Sunday than on
the buster days of the week. 1t is not a ques-
ton any longer on Sunday mornings, whether
they will read the newspapers, but only what
newspapers they will read. Our patrons have
long urged their right to get
from us what we have to
sell, at the time when they want to buy. They
do not want to wait and they will not wait,
till Monday morning for Saturdays news. II
we refuse to sell. they simply go elsewhere.
forced to see the imperative business necessity
OF giving our patrons what they want rather
than drive them to our rivals.
The question of work on day held sacred by
most OF our readers and accepted as properly
day OF rest by all, is not involved. Nobody
objects to. or would consent to give up Mon
ds~'s paper; but there is far more Sunday work
+ ~1essary in its preparation than in that for
unday morning. We shall 30 arrange matters.
however, that all employees will have their day
OF rest. And we shall hope to make our Sum
day issue such that even the most scrupuIous
of our readers will rejoice in it as an improve
ment over the Sunday publications which il
Henoeforth the Tribune will be issued every
day in the year.
Ut Course People liant a Sunday Paper.
NY. Sun.
Jay Gould, having decided to print Sum
day edition of the Tribune, has been getting
out such paper. So far as we have observed,
it is a very harmless sheet, though the can't and
namby-pambyism of Its editorial page must
provoke in the iudicious feelings of disgust
and contempt which are inappropriate to the
day of rest.
But Jay Gould's people seem TO think it ne
cessary to keep on apologizing for publishing
Sunday paper, lest somebody should think
them very wicked and SO stop taking the Trib-
une altogether. They therefore tell the people
who are able to tolerate the school girls
compositions they furnish for leading
articles on Sunday, and the feeble
old maids in the country who are in
culver over the thought of a Sunday Tribune,
that the reason for printing it is that the most
proper people in New York have taken to read
ing Sunday papers, and so there can be no harm
IN the business. But what difference does it
make who reads Sunday paper, SO far as the
right or wrong of publishing it is concerned?
This Is the great argument the Tribune uses
to sustain its course in bidding for patronage
on the first day of the week:
Zone of our most respected townsmen, Gov.
+. ID. Morgan, may be mentioned as type of
thousands who never thought of looking at a
Sunday paper then, and never think of getting
along without one now"
Well, what of it? If it is wrong to read a
Sunday paper. is it any the less wrong because
Gov. Morgan finds he can't get along without
one; and it it is right, what difference does it
make whether he takes one in or not?
Gov. Morgan is a long-headed politician. q
shre"d and successful merchant, and sensi-
BILE man. He is very well able to decide for
himself what it is proper and right for him to
do, but he does not set himself up, so far as we
know, IS the keeper of other peoples con-
sciences. or as their exempIar. He is interest.
ed in public affairs, and 80, of course. can't Get
on unless he reads Sunday paper and no
other intelligent man who wishes to keep in
formed regarding what is happening, omits to
read his newspaper OF Sunday, if it is worth
reading.
But nobody, unless he is a snob and a toady,
offers as an excuse for such reading the ex-,
ample of some prominent man; and If he has
any independence of character he does not
think of making excuse at all. Nor would auy
newspaper, except one rooted in cant and hum
bug seek to justify its course in bidding for
patronage on Sunday by resorting to the arpu-
ments and explanations of a lackey.