The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-05
THE HERALD's LATEST FIGHT.
How the Great New York Daily Proposes to
Outgeneral the Newsdealers.

New York Herald of Wednesday.
The fact is that the newsmen want to be
newspaper "bosses." They have so long had
a monopoly of the delivery business, to the
exclusion of many worthy and needy people
whom they hire to carry around the papers
and to do much of the drudgery of the route
that they have come to the mistaken con-
clusion that they own the whole newspaper
business, 1t would surprise them, doubtless.
were they suddenly to discover that they had
been permitted to monopoize a trade to
which they really had no right, and from
which they found themselves ousted with
unexpected suddenness the moment an agi-
tation brought others into the feld-an agi-
tation brought about by their attempt to die
tate arbitrarily what price the public shall
pay for the newspaper it wants.
1t would not be an unexpected revolution
If the newsboy, who for a miserable pittance
has for years been trudging the route of a
well-to-do dealer, to-day determined to take
up the route himself, were equipped from
the Herald Office with a full supply of all
the dailies, given a news stand, and from
being the underpaid, overworked servant,
suddenly found himself an independent,
well-paid dealer readily earning a dollar
where before he had barely earned a dime.
But the newSmen not alone want to be
"bosses" of the newspaper business; they
declare that they are also bosses" of the
streets, and that if the poor at their door-if
the widow, or orphan, or cripple, or needy
creature-dare gladly to pick up the profit
they refuse and try to start little paper
business for themselves they will drive them
and their stands from the pu bile Streets de-
coy their customers from them, and ''boy-
colt" the dealer who supplies them.
Will they? Let US see. The Herald pro-
poses to have something to say about that.
1t will stand by these people against the
newspaper "bosses" and it is of the opinion
it can be an able protector; The bosses"
have declared that they will boycott" any
one outside their ring who attempts to earn
living in the business and to sell the pa
pers unpublished prices, Very we'll. Now,
this is what the Herald will do
Were we to accede to the newsdeaers i'm
perious demands, we would entirely unneces-
sarily lose a very large sum- we prefer to
spend it in helping poor, deserving people by
organizing service of our own, all the ex-
pense of establishing which shall be ours, all
the profits from which shall be theirs.
Any deserving persons who wish to may
apply at the Herald office, particularly those
whom the newspaper bosses could other
wise more easily injure-such as widows
with young children, middle aged women in
straitened circumstances men who are
cripples and unable to do hard work, orphan
girls out of employment. These shall be
'set up" in the newspaper busness-given
papers to sell and provided with good, sub
stantial stands at convenient points through
out the city, on which shall be placed. not
only The Herald, but every daily paper pub
lished in New York, and which shall be sold
at published prices.
1t is not necessary for these poor people TO
bring money to the Herald to pay for the
various daily papers a good character and
an earnest intention to deal honestly by the
public is all the Herald asks and it will buy
for them at wholesale rates an abundance of
papers to keep their stands we'll supplied,
and will give them all the profits which are
allowed by the various dailies to wholesale
dealers