The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-08-04

NEW YoRK's GREAT DAILIEs.-The New
York papers, though printed in the great
commercial capital and metropolitan city
of the country, are entirely provincial in
their characteristics. They devote them
selves almost exclusively to the petty
issues, news, and politics OF that city, and
are incapable Of rising above the preiudices
OF their surroundings. On no question
does that press take broad, national
grounds, as a press assuming TO represent
and lead tiity-three millions OF people
should. 1t has neither breadth nor depth,
but is entirely superficial in all things and
circumscribed in its perspective by the hori-
ION OF the mushroom city, IN which, like
mushrooms, the papers that arrogate to
themselves all the influence and power OF
the American press have sprung up and
become rich As in nights time.
They treat grave questions OF public
policy and economy, OF finance and gov
eminent, more flippantly in their editorial
columns, and often more ignorantly than
the patent outsiders Of an Arkansas VIII
| lage, and are less TO be relied upon for
sober counsel and sound judgment in any
great public crisis. Their horizon is that
Of their city, and they cannot see beyond
| il. Nothing is OF interest to them that does
or their towns people. Talk about Balti-
more and Philadelphia being merely over
grown villages, why there never was nor
will be again so big village as New York,
or so confirmed set OF villagers as her
people.
lnthe opinion OF that very provincial press,
there are no men in the country but New
Workers, and nothing outside OF that city
worthy OF amomenjs consideration. And
this narrowness was never made more con-
/ spicuous than it was yesterday when the
whole kennel-Blanche, Tray, Sweetheart,
and all--from the Herald to the San, joined
| in chorus to sound the praises OF President
| Arthur, and approve word for word his
miserable veto Of the river and harbor bill.
Everything in ii was right, even TO his in
solent proposition to have ore half OF the
amount appropriated placed to his own
credit to be used as IN his judgment might
seem wisest. But for their approval of this
we ought not perhaps TO blame them, be-
cause OF course the President would have
layished il all on New York, and his old cro-
mics of the clubs and press would naturally
have come in for their share.
1t must have been rather amusing yester-
! day evening to see the long faces of these
matchless editors when the news of the
action OF Congress reached that city and
was displayed on their bulletins: but OF
course had Congress voted unanimously
against the yeto-and it came very near
doing so-these infalible gentlemen, who
do the thinking for New York. would have
denounced the whole lot OF them as robbers
or idiots, and maintained that the rounder
and ward politician OF that city, made Vice
President by Howard Carrolps Jest and
President by Guiteau's bullet, fired IN earn
est, Is more competent to legislate for
the country, and filter to be placed in
charge OF the public purse! They will, Of
course, brazen it out now; having, rs
usual, made blunder, they will as usual
adhere to 1t, and go on laundering to the
end. The "proyincial press, however
which has been so often snubbed by these
big Journals OF the big village, have now
an opportunity to get even with them. and
should not let il slip. Hold them up TO
the world for what they are, friends-a set
OF Ignorant and pretentious boobies-and
make them smart Ii they are OF penetrable
stuff under the hash Of your honest ridi-
cule.-State Of yesterday.
Thanks, neighbor, for those truthful
words. We have had occasion before now
to say that OF all the journals printed in the
United States those OF New York best de-
serve the adjective provincial"