New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-13
marty. That verdict of acquittal need never De
called mystery again.
Nnr 4 STRIKE.

GTs not THE TRIBUNE inconsistent III Is soI0-
times asked " in defending the Strike OF ho"S
dealers, when it so recently seemeu W i'oH
sympathy with the strike OF teleRrspherS'
But this is not a strike at ALL Inc news
dealers simply name the price ut which theV
ara willing TO sell n property which theY nave
bought. Every man does that who sells loal VI
bread pound OF sugar, or cargo OF wheat VI
ner lot 1t is rot strike If the grocers hu 'oS
must charge cent more per pound tor HouI III oiu0i
10 live. They may charge too much' DuI' u 'noy uO'
they know that other grocers Will DO gau " '' I0i
lass, The man or boy who buys newspapers TO 10
.od oc,in has .xactly the same right and the same
restraint, lie has a right to charge what Nc
rlo,ses rut lie knows that, II he charges moro
than will yield a fair profit many others Will DO
Glad ut once to sell in his stead at that fair proh'
Monopoly comes in, with It's grinding OppreSsloh'
when the large caTital of great journal Is GIL
noved TO force mon to sell their own property al
nrics below that which theowners, furnishing Inelr
own capital deem a far remuneration. The dealer
who had TO buy route, rent store OF SVdhu' VI
mt ND shelter and stand in the street st MS own OK
psuse has right TO charge what Others also u'iuk
their own capital, would be obliged to charge IL
Ia wrong to him, and to thewhoe community H. III
order TO break him down. rich monopoly suPpiio'
the capital to enable somebody else to sell aO IoWer
ra+ In the care of The Herald, capital invested IN
stands or in setting mp dealers is expected to DO got
back from advertisers. But that is only n cnabgo
of the genuine newspaper into the adYertlshgihahu
bill. ....
No doubt, The Herald has right to give away 'IS
copies every morning, instead OF giving away only q
mart Of the legitimate cost of distributing them, II
Il can get advertisers who ARE willing 10 paw te eA
nsnse But the advertisers who prefer that sort OF
.l,n hnw cQn
own advertisement only, on little hand.bills where
Il can be seen. md will not be lost like needle in
a haystack in the broad pages of q "septupIe "
sheet They can scatter millions of these bills over
tina town free OF charge and sometimes at ess Ihal
ths cost OF inserting an advertisement in hIst-
class journal But they know that the hapd-Dlll
which,uobody pays for nobody reads. lhouSh they
come down,like Snow-hakes, all over the town, no
one stops to find ont what they are about we'll
nobody paws for the advertising sheets which ne
Herald gives away in connection with us news
paper People pay for the newspaper part ana lhe
rest they throw away That is perfectly proper II
the advertisers are satisfied. Only the he"adeaers
have right to insist that they shall not be com
PEELED TO fold and scatter about town ahyuouy
advertising haud-bills without pay for tho service
The question OF labor comes in here. The news
dealer Is a merchant who has a right 10 buy and TO
scu what he pleases but he is also laOorer who
has right to get fair pay for his work. 1t Is not
easy work, nor luxurious nor altogether pleasant
IL involves much knowledge tact and energy and
II il made tho harder for having linked IL with 1t all
the risks Of the trader. For that sort OF WorK' the
man who distributes 100 papers thinks he ought TO
have more than thrty-tnTec cents day. But
thirty-thrce cents day IS all that he HTa'a IS
willing tn pay for Folding and distributing both its
newspaper and its advertising hand-bilIs. II he
prefers not TO do the job at that rate who can say
| hs i, not clearly within his right5i