Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20
sunday Newspapers.

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twenty-five or thirty years ago there were
only two or three daily papers in the
United States that issued q Sunday edition.
They were confined to New York, New Or
leans and San Francisco, and in the great
CITY of New York to the Herald alone.
Philadelphia papers, like their street cars,
did not run on Sunday. II was the quietess
large city in the world on Sunday, and
Boston was like unto it
A very remarkable change has occurred
and is still occurring all over the country.
Not only in the large cities, but in the
smaller ones are the daily papers issuing
Sunday editions Their excuse is that the
public demand Sunday papers and will
have them, and that Il Sunday edition is
therefore necessity to protect their bust
ness. As one daily paper in any particular
city adopts this excuse, and goes into
Sunday edition, the excuse becomes all the
more of an excuse-indeed a necessity
for its competitors to follow suit, and SO
from this circumstance, or for one reason
and another, satisfactory to the publishers,
UAlIy III NilC NabiSH Va tAS A@SN
and second class, have wheeled into line in
this Sunday edition business, until now
large majority of dailies in such cities are
issuing paper seven days in the week.
The success Of the two very respectable
Sunday newspapers published in this city
the News Letter and Leader, have demon
strated that the public demand, or at least
will support, Sunday papers. The REGISrEE
has construed their success as evidence
that Sunday edition OF that paper IS called
for and hence has concluded to enter the
field with them. Yesterday it inaugurated
ITS new departure. and proposes to issue
paper seven days in the week and every day
in the year.
Webelieve that the Sunday press may be
and should be a powerful cooperating
agency on behalf of the proper observance
OF Sunday as n day of rest, and also day
of elevated mental and moral enjoyment
1t is we'll known that majority OF the peo-
pie in every city do not attend church
Regularly, The prefer to rest and read at
home, or seek recreation in some way other
than going to church: This has been the
case time out of mind in all large cOmmu-
mites. The flash literature is therefore
more read on Sunday than i'll all the rest OF
the week put together. This is why news
depots are thr6nged on Saturday night.
People are laying in supply OF Sunday
reading. .,
Now it need not be argued that we'll
conducted Sunday newspaper is far prefer
able as a matter of reading for the masses
on Sunday than this flash literature with
which many houses abound, and which is
pernicious in its effects on the minds OF all
the household, but especially the young,
The advent of Sunday papers has to some
extent checked the buying of this flash
stuff People save their nickels to buy the
Sunday paper relying more on il than for
merly for Sunday reading According as
the SUNDAY papers furnish unobjectiOnable
reading will the popular tastes be elevated.
1t is entirely possible to publish Sunday
papers that will do a great work in this
direction, and consequently be an influence
for good in every community OF the coun-
try ON the Sabbath day.