Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-10-04
Aancaster Fntelligsnrer.
impudent Nevsdeaiers.

The New York Herald declines to
permit the newsdealers' association to
charge three cents for the paper for which
they pay one and two.thirds cents. The
newsmen are very solidly united and the
Herald cannot be bought anywhere In
New York now for less than three cents.
It's owner, however, has cabled from
Europe an order to his agents to estab
lish independent stands and routes ia
serve the Herald to its New York
patrons and the instruction IL being
promptly carried out. 1t was quite in.
conceivable that the owner OF the
Herald would be so unmauly rs to
surrender to the newsdealers the priv
ilege of naming the price of his
paper. His action In resisting was
of the most matter of course kind To y
man of spirit, with the purse to back IT,.
The pewsdealers' association is said to
be very strong, and they seem to feel
themselves to be 50 rs they would hardly
take the position they have assumed If
they were hopeless of defending it. But
they do not seem to be very wise set of
fellows They have, for instance, held
a mass meeting in New York to arouse
public indignation against the Herald
and It's owner, aud then their speakers
abused him roundly. They charged him
with being the poor mans foe, and with
spending the profits of the Herald in
foreign lands. But 1t was the stranGest
thing in the world for the newSdealers
to expect to arouse the public to anger
against the Herald owner, because he
had voluntarily undertaken to reduce
his profits and the price of his journal
This, of course, was TO the direct benefit
of the public, which Is asked by the
newsdealers TO get cross about II, be
cause these newsdealers lose money by
the operation. Wherefore may the public
be expected to be interested in the news
dealers against its own interest Will
what grace can a man, who asks The
people to pay three cents for a paper
that costs him a cent and two-thirds
call upon them to denOuuce the owne
Of the paper who offers it to the people
at two cents
These newsdealers are probably mer
OF ordinary good sense and their ac-
tion in this matter illustrates the blind
ness with which self interest aftlicts
people. Certainly it takes no great
acuteness of intellect to see that the
Herald owner, offering the Herald to the
public at two cents, is the man who earns
the public's sympathy in his undertaking
If the public may be supposed to take
no particular interest in the effort of Mr.
Bennett to preserve his independence
in the management of his own business,
It's indifference cannot be expected 10
continue when he i5 seeking to give
it for two cents what others are
striving to make it pay three for.
The struggle between the Herald owner
and the newsdealers will certainly speed
lily end in their overthrow. They will
be uuhorsed in the first onset, They
have neither law, nor right, mor shadow
of reason on their side, and il needs only
the pluck and cash with which I'll,
Herald is we'll supplied to rout then
horse, foot and dragons. 1t will be 1
great satisfaction to see the impuden
rascais thrashed and the New York jour
mails will be under great obligations t,
the Herald for its Undertaking to fire.
them from the subjectiOn in which IN
news agents seem TO have held them.