The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-07-23


DALLAS, July 2l.-LEdi!or HERALD
y havo been reading with no little
interest from day to day the voice OF
tho State press on the contemplated
muyo of tho Galveston News to Dallas,
and the singular fact note is that the
only sympathy or good cheer the
News has obtained in all Te&G- over
It's venture comes from citizens OF tho
city whose older Journalistic enter
prise the News is desirous Of driving
ouJ. In all other parts of Texas there
are only kind words and compliment
tary references 10 The DALLAS HER
AID. In Dallas alone is there any
spirit CT hostility.
Il struck many of us who did not
contribute TO tho Dallas News as g
M Jst singular proceeding to contrib
uto thousands to q stranger for the
purpose of enabling him to break
down an old and well-knoWn enter
prise. It looked 50 unjust and so UNI
pusiness.like that / have talked to not
o few of those engaging in the move
ment, and / think [ have discovered
the "true in wardnege" of the whole
matter. .,
There are three classes who raised
this bonus for tho News.
First, those who wanted another
paper, a very few who were hostile to
| The HERALD for one reason and an
other, who had or imagined they had
little scores TO pay. This clasa we're
active III getting up the movement ana
chiefly instrumental in securing sub
seriptions from the other two. The
slick part Of the buoinesn was the man
| "a anita YJgpn TN intlunnlp
others.
Secondly, wore those who were led
, Dy The fEsE class TO contribute on tie
ground that the News would so to
Fort Worth if not to Dallas and such
Gan advertisement for Fort Worth"
would never do! The Fort rnipht
get now factories and neW roads
Snl Dallas sit Idly by and not
raise u dollar, but we were
| evetlastlRgly ruined IL a branch OF
the Galveston News got TO Fort Worth!
The piqued class No. /, strange to say,
carried the point and induced the I'M
preiudiced class No. 2 to give up
SOME thousands by presenting so sim'
pie "scare crow"
Thirdly, were those of thu last class
who were induced TO contribute on
the theory that the News and HERAi
would consolidate and form one great
paper. The real purpose all the time
was, however, to use homo capita! IN
q strangers hand to break down 4
home enterprise upon which seyersi
hundred people of this city are daily
dependent and not g. jot inferior to the
enterprise so handsomely subsidized.
| / undertake to say that half those
who assisted in this movement were
misled totally and imposed upon
| Some of them have so expressed them
selves to me and regret the step, and
not few generously offer to do all for
THE HERALD they have done for The
News. The great mass of the citizens
controlled by local pride and local
sentiment are for THE HERALD first,
last and all the time,as find by actual
contact with them.
But what / wanted particularly to
say is this: Why wasn't the money
given to THE HERALD IL better paper
was desired? Not dollar, except Tor
legitimate business, has ever been
contributed to our home paper,
although it has been always the
champion of our interests, while that
journal which has fought Dallas and
North Texas has been given S3O,VCo
1 simply desire, Mr.. Editor, in justice
to THE HERALD, to call the attention
of the fair minded citizens or Dallas tc
the unkind and unbusiness-lik like attl-,
tudo toward THE HERALD assumed
by the prejudiced and active promo
tiers of this Dallas News scheme.
G. +. A.