The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-02-17
NEWSPAPER srnlcs AND AmEsrr,Es,

fnat urc Wntihf olltei WalhiN wv
stler. Inv Po,' isn,lng epiihev,
Ia "a sing ia tho hardest ACQUISITIONS, ard
generally not only y ! lying the inurnar
ist'o methods, but tsgersing the personal
70 presentation Of ,he nrnpF',t1fs 81 tie
" a., whom says "a Unued states sens
to brands ns pack Of thieves and linrs,"
etc. o. the other hand the News rotor s
o iitoria ly. ia well.iempsred editorial in
re eFenoe q that character Of attack, and
wy OF reply 10 the Posts charge OF its
| s75 600 NOR gsge Indebtedness "fhe envy
OF success and achievement, IN small minds
has passed into n proyerb. The News OBJ
serves wish pity that tho stability OF Its
position liz the cause Of serious annoyance
In certain quarters. For nearly halt CEN
tury the News has stood firmly and fear
iessly the shafts OF malice aud defamation
that FROM time to time have been hurled
ssaiust II. Such 10 seemingly part
OF the life OF great journal.
The end OF nearly half o century
finds the News stronger and more than
need say no more In answer TO recent do.
famatory and malicious aspersions. The
pu bile at large can have no interest with
the details Of management affecting its pri-
vate business. and to obtrude them upon
the public is neither necessary ner called
for. II there arc those who have deeper
interest In Its affairs than toe mere satis-
faction of n morbid curl i'y the News re.
fers all such to any 0. ig,ntilo agency,
banking establishment, prominen. mer-
camille firm doing bu9i. 100 Galveston,
IL has built lf up in
Galveston, has established here
perm nent domioile second 10 mona
In the United States Is managed on bust
nose principals by business men, with O
Gre dit untGinishei and financial record
unchallenged, and "a financially very &C
ceptabe institution indeed. The tongue
of Islander and defamation has waggsd In
the past, is waggng now, and will doubt
less continue TO wag, aud the News is not
beyond its malicious venom
Prospering people and prosporlng papers
ought ID, and generally do, get along
amistly together. 1t is only when
tls margin OF profit Ia business
Is so small that where division
is required aud where the contest must end
ia the "surviYsl OF the iitleot" that the
shoe begins 10 pinch and Che patience be.
comes ruillsd. The combined population
OF Galveston and Houston will no, exceed,
II indeed they actually figure as much as
G0,000. TIE two morning papers that issue
In those cities arc each toe equal Of any
journal published anywhere H. the south,
and far exceed many Ia several cities OF
larger size. At least $3.50 0O0 to 100000 a
year are expended b. them O. sustain their
status. No papers outside Of Texas ia cities
OF even twice our size, tender such magDii-
cent, uewsy sheets ss d. our Texas Journals.
Loo king beyond ", we ild that New York
with population OF $50 COD 10 have only
five morging dailiGs, or one to every $780,
600 sous. Philadelphia With a population
ofover 700 O0O has but three or orc TO every
250 ,00l. Baltimore with 100000 people, has
but two, or just llrl3 variant from the
same proportion. Chicago with GOO COO, has
but thoee morning journals. Cincinnati
with d population Of 10000, has but Two
leading morning issues. %. Louis with
population OF nearly 100000, has
but two. New Orleans, numbering
10000 inhabitants hos but two
Dozens of other papers have been started at
various times in the interim in all these
cities, az well as in Others only to De laid
away among their predecessors dead. II
takes years of time, thousands OF dollars,
and IN immenslty OF sk.l, care, diligence
aud patience to Guild up to a paying basis
a great morning daily. The venture is
speculative, and out9oes of large suma
must be daily made only to establish rep
u.slion to ultimately beget com
pensating returns. The question erisea
can Galveston and Houston with
q combined population of only 6o,000 Gill.
zsna adequately support two such papers
as ara now their pride2 In face OF the data
above given it would seem that the POSSIBLE
ity would be an anomaly for certainly they
are the equals, II not the superiors. OF pa
pers that depend for their support on popu-
latiops thrice and quad lube their size.
The tiuth is the newspapers of Texas are
ahead OF their times and the populations.
It is equally true til the more iou nails
there are the more extensive the educs ting
of the general mind toward newspaper read.
ing, but this rebounds in larger benefit
{, the older, weather. and better equip.
q I'd and organized institutions; and other
things being equal the new corners are the
"a fferers. But under oil circumstances
while tho test is being made, let tho rivalry
be conducted on principles Of business, Jus
tics and manly fairness, and in a dign led
manner, and not by personalities, trad uc'
ton and malice that iudicats not only in
discre ton and bad judgment, but a COM
plste .miscalculaiion Of what subscribers