The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-05-20
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THE LONDON TIMES
came out as double sheet of eight pages
and forty.eight columns, and thus out
stripped Its older two.penny rivals, tho.
Courier, the Chronicle and the Post,
whose contributors were such stars as
Southey, Lamb, Wordsworth, Colendge,
Macintosh, Sheridan, Fox and others Dnr-
ing the Crmean war tho newspaper business
Aourshed and this war, the abolition 1850
of the stamp duty and licensing tax, combined
with the stirring events daily born of that
war gave tremendous Impulse to all news
paper circulation.
Fifteen years later, in
FRANCE,
we find the original of the real
newspaper, in what was called the French
Gazette, a weekly Published in 1881 by Mr..
Rensudot, physician, to amuse bis patients
and increase his practice. This subsequently
became n daily journal, devoted TO
political and financial news, adver-
tisements, etc. 1t was small
quarto single sheet of eight pages, and was
under the patronage of the great Richelieu.
This Renaudot had at one time very extraor-
binary p ivileges granted him, to-wit: 'IIet-
ters patent, with the exclusive privilege of
printing, publishing and selling newspaper
gazettes containing the news Of anything
that passed within and without the king
DOM"
1t is interesting to observe that even at this
early date Renaudot conceived the idea of the
VALUE OF AN INDEPENDENT PAPER,
which no doubt had its origin in his expert.
ences Of the difficulties of an
attempt to please everybody. The
following extract give you from the frst
bound volume of his Gazette, which discloses
this fact He says; Captains wish to have MI
the news about their battles and sieges every
day, lawyer: to have tho law reports, etc.
some people who understand nothing OF the
secrets Of the court wish to have them ex-
posed at full length. Others are angry If
their names do not meet the kings eye in the
Gazette, for having bought some unimport-
ant office or fer having safely conveyed a
State parcel. Some attach value to nothing
except howery language; Others would have
my narratives resemble bare skeleton. Can
you then, my dear reader, deny meyour pity,
or withhold your pardon, If my pen fail t.
please everybody Hold il as may, I could
no more do this than could the peasant and
his son in the fable, although they travelled
first singly and then toge,her,s at on time afoot,
NJ another on the ass Yet should
deceive myself were / TO hope to curb your
censure by my remonstrances The
liberty to find fault is not the least of the
pleasures attendant on reading of this sort;
and it is for your pleasure that this novelty |
has been invented Enjoy them at your ease,
your French liberty, and let every one say
boldly that he would tab away this or change
that or that he could have done much better.
l admit it all. But one thing | will yield TOP
none. the Independent search after truth, ,
though | will not youch for its constant ut.
taiDment."
During her revolution we find ....
FRANCE DELuGED WITH NswspApERs
Of every hue and tone, Disseminating error.
encouraging calrmny, emitting abuse, etc."
rs we are advised by famed writer Of that
period. So extreme had they become in their
views and expressions, and 30 critical the
censorship over the press that they were sup
pressed by the wholesale, until under the
first consul and the empire only five printed
sheets were permitted TO appear. In 1926
the Paris press had daily circulation Of
30 600. In 1850 the daily circulation had in
creased to 2I5,000, but of this, $1,000 only
being Napoleopc in advocacy, the memora-
HE decree was issued that tho authox ~
very newspaper article on any subject was
BOUND to atlix his name thereto, under Den.
'lty Of severe fine and imprison
nent. BY this decree both
'roprictors and editors had to give bonds for
heir good behavior and that of their ga
ettes.
THE GERMAN PRESS
vas of small account until the exciting oc-
urrences of the internecine struggle of their
french reighbors. In 1880 the Diet saw fit to
INSIST on the enactment of the law of suppress
ions and exactions underwhich the majority o. |
ne press struggled for existence, so that three I
ears later all Germany had but 800 news 0
apers, dallies and weeklies. But more IL {
rsl rule afterward prevailing, the number in
laased to 1000 in 1855.
IN THE UNITED STATES
40 land of newspapers, and the home
the untrammeled press, we find as in
lost other things the highest achievements
nd these under the most randi
rogress. From an insignificant beginniyr
few papers hundred years ago WI i
lumber now nearly eight thousand. a
To Boston belongs tho honor, among >
,merican cities, of owning the first daily. r
his, too, was II little Quarto sheet of four /
ages of purely local news and one of which :
as blank You can SEQ n copy of it in tho n
tate paper office in London, the first issue a
eing September rs, 1890. And this was
lst twenty years subsequent 10 the day when |,
ri William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia, 9
rote: THANK God, We have neither free :,
'hools or printing presses, and | hope we :,
Jay not have for hundred years to come" a
nd yet these words were scarcely uttered &,
hen James Franklin, elder brother of Benz h
min, started the New England Courant, and y
whose prospectus we read, in its opening: i
The main design of this paper will be to ;,
ltertain the town with the most comicsl in :,
dents of human life, which, in so large a n
lace as Boston, will not fail of universal r
and Of most serious morals.
hich may be drawn from the odd parts Of
fe." Becoming embroiled with some min ,
tiers In controversy on the subject of in
,ulation, the Legislature forbade It's publ T
'tion or that OF any paper Of similar nature. {
the ground that "such paper tends 10 '
ock religion and bring 1t into contempt, the
oily Scriptures ABUSED, and the reverend
I'd faithful ministers of the Gospel are in t
riously reflected upon" James name was !
ereupon taken down and that Of !
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, =
EN- Q sixteen year old apprentice in !
9 office, substituted. AT the OPEN
g Of our revolutionary struggle.
Q total number of newspapers !
the country was lees than forty--boston I