The daily gazette., 1882-07-21
A DEEP PROBE.
A Successful Piece of Journalistic Surgery
Astounding Discovery of q Sensitive
Point In the Third Street swIndle.

| NfNN1SDoeA0h surgery
Astounding Discovery OF q Sensitive
Point In the Third Street swindle.
[Every Evening.
To the GAZETTE belongs the credit of
penetrating the rhinOceros-like eutiele of
the journalistic pirates at Third and King
streets and demonstrating that at least one
OF them is not utterly devoid of a sense of
shame 1t took deeD probing, but the fol-
lowing extract from a GAZETTE editorial of
yesterday appears to have gone straight to a
tender spot !:
The owners and managers of the Republican
realize precisely the nature Of their acts for as
we have already stated, Hersey, the editor Of
the paper, has repeatedly declared to the writer
o. tnls article that he was not to blame for the
thieving Of his paper; TINT ''old man Vernon
| ana the boys were responsible, and that he had
| tried his best TO keep 'the old man" from
stealing but that he would do Il IN spite Of him.
He said this in ex0neratl0n OF himself and
| added that he was getting ashamed to walk the
streets, But II now transpires from the Rev.
y, ~, ~ Hills testimony that Hersey Is as deep
and the conclusion that all honest people must
come to is that they are a bad lot all around
How the editor referred to became in
censed at this and, yesterday afternoon,
walked into the GAZETTE office like lion
and came out again like lamb has already
been stated.
| The Republican has attempted to defend
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lished becomes public property which any
body has perfect right to appropriate and
| convert to his own use. The speeiOusness
OF this argument deceiyes some unrefiecting
| people, who, moreover, are apt TO think
that such news does not cost ANYTHING worth
speaking of anyhow and that the complaints
of EpeTU Egeai1tg and the other newspapers
of the city about its appropriation by the
f6ep"ottcan amount simply to much ado
about nothing"
Let us put this matter In light that will
bring 1t home to any man Of business Take
| the example of reputable grocer doing
| business in this city He buys his stock on
the square, pays his bills on demand and
does an honest business. Suppose that ona
neighboring street is another dealer who has
laid In large stock Of goods which he has
not paid for and has no intention of paying
for. Can not any one see the injustice done
the first dealer, who pays for his goods, in
forcing him to compete hs the same market
with the shyster whose stock has not cost
him anything and who, when his creditors
at length become alarmed WIN go into bank
rupticy and resume business under another
name, or in some other way evade settle
menti There are honest, energetic and in
dustrious business men Of this city who have
suffered from just this kind of competition
let them take the illustration home and
ponder IT well.
But, suppose in addition to the iniustIce
Of the above hypothetical case, the honest
grocer were Obliged to submit to the ad,li
tional aggrayation of seeing his unscrupu-
lous rival pilter from him the goods he had
bought and paid for and offer them for sale
In the same market and to the same custom
ers. How long would he stand such
rivalry! Would he not at once invoke the
aid of the law, which protects him in the
possession of his merchandise, but which
affords no protection whatever to the enter
prising newspaper when its stock in trade
has been stolen in like mannerl
Now word to those who are disposed to
dismiss the subject with the rejection,
Pshaw, news does not cost anything to
speak of, so what's the use of making all
this fuss ~ For such persons we will in
stance just one case out of many. The pro-
eeedings of the late Wilmington Conference,
which met in Middletown last March, were
telegraphed to Egery EVcaing by member
of its staff in attendance at the sessions, and
were rushed into type as fast as received,
with the result that good part of each
mornings doings of the Conference were
published in the first edition of this paper
Up to the last day of the Conference this
matter was regularly appropriated by the
Republican, published In Its late edition, and
sent out by the same newsboys for sale
on the same streets and to the same people
In competition with the paper which had
gone to the expense Of sending and keeping
a representative ut Middletown and paying
heavy telegraph bills for the purpose of get
ting this news promptly The actual cash
paid out by Eee1y EoeisiAg for the reporting
and telegraphing OF one mornings confer
ence proceedings alone was over thirteen
dollars, and the bills for the matter stolen
by the Republican during the other days of
the session were but little less in amount
Yet this same news cost that piratieal sheet
nothing except the wages of the men or
boys who put the stolen matter In type.
Let honest meL consider this matter and
reflect that the crusade of the newspapers of
Wilmington against the Third and King
streets fraud is not in any sense a persecu-
tion but simply plea for justice to them
selves.