The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-04-10
Business.

The management of the STATES
IAN cannot refrain from expressing
heir satisfaction to the people of
Austin and the state generally who
have so generously responded to our
efforts to serve them with a paper
worthy of their support and conf
dence. i ne increase has been truly |
phenomenal, taxing our, as yet, some
what imperfect facilities to the very
utmost. Of course so large and so
sudden an increase in business taken
with our removal and other circum
stances of similar bothersome Ma
ture must create confusion to some
degree. But we are working night
and day to bring order out of the dis
ordered elements and we will succeed
afteraWhile. In the mean time we
crave the indulgence of our generous
patrons. Our new Office is being rap
idly fitted with facilities of the most
approved modern patterns and in ev-
cry department progress is being
made. We have during all this
worry labored very earnestly to put
some new feature of interest on the pa
per daily. 1t has been our care to afflict
the readers of the STATESMAN with
as few of the consequences of
our fitting and other bother as
possible, and they have generally met
this effort with an ever increasing
business. Nor is th3 increase, here at
home, all. In the foreign advertising
markets, THE STATESMAN has made
a very gratifying lunge ahead, and
we are having an avalanche of propc-
sitions and demands for space. But
by far the most gratifying to us is the
home business traceable to a newborn
confidence in the papers ability to
serve the people and the state. Our
weekly subscription lists are being in.
creased with almost uneXampled ra-
pidity. The increase is not confined
to this part of the state alone. II
reaches out to every county in all ouI
broad territory, and includes all kinds
and conditions of men. This imposes
grave responsibilities upon the man
agement, which they are resolved tC
meet by faithful and conscientiou:
discharge of every duty, and by meet
ing every requirement of active, hon
est and intelligent journalism. Oul
friends are cordially invited to visi
the office and inspect the improve
ments already finished, as well as thos
>in course of construction. We fee
, confident they will be both interested
2 and gTatified.
GOLD JOURNALIST" takes up tn
cudgels quite Justify in Sunday
STATESMAN for the Post, and mad
an immensely strong point agains
the News. With this phase of tn
l affair we have just a little bit less tha
: nothing whatever 80 do. The Pos
r can and must take care of itself. w
1 only contend that two wrongs do nc
|, make a right, and if the News di
wrong, the Post should not have don
: wrong only to get even. These tactic
. are unworthy of even tenth-rate pc
= pers, and are INDUCED in only by th
: very ignorant or the very brutal. Aki
o to it and far worse than this is the ba
!. habit Of assailing personal characte
It is the habit of some of the paper
of Texas which affect to follow th
q News and the Post, when they e
hold of hard fight in some other ps
;. per, they at once go to manufacturer
O SANDER and defamation. In none G
9 the states Of the union is the standar
! Of professional courtesy as low as it
o here. Business aspects, moral servic
Y to the community, patriotic devotio
! to the country and to the party t
9 which the paper adheres, are only tn
! mel est of incidents. The main bus
ness seems to be destroy some strug
! Cling professional brother. Texas ha
had enough of this sort of disgrace
it should stop.