New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-24
4 FAIR PROPOSITION THAT VAS PROMPTLY
DECLINED.
Fourth Publication.

Fourth Publication.
" Are Advertisers To be Cheated r is the be-
nevolent inquiry o. our esteemed contemporary. IHE
TRIBUNE referring to the business AFFAIRS OF Inc Horsd
himself viii be cheated lie certainly will be If he
places his advertisements In the great and booming
World But we feel IT our duty TO quietly warn pm
against the secretIve aud seductive TRIBUNE Every
who inserts his advertisement In IHk TRIBUNE IN
he bi.siu belief that 1t will be by any consider
able number OF his felOw-beings Will he assuredly
cheated. especially II he pays therefor. No man can
possibly be cheated who adyertlses In The WOrd. In
The rst place our rates are exorbitant ami in the
second place. there Is only day IN the week when We
do not PRINT and circulate three times rs many papers AS
TIE TRIBUNE, and that day Is sunday when our croua-
ton Is edy i've times greater than that OF IhE
TRIBUNE. OF course, our genial Brother Reld under
stands that the primary object Of the newspaper adver
User publicity. when he good round price for
advertisement In newspaper OF elegant pretehsons
which is only passed around In few private circles he
badly cheated a. though he had inserted II IN
rat hole We insist that the advertiser shall not be
chcatcd.-[Th New-lOrk World.
Tho booming World" should not become merely the
"bowng World" Dsplragng as IL is TO our ingenious
and successful neighbor Pultzers intelligence. really
hope that he believes what he says for in that case we
shall have some with HIN. He is Juggling with might
and main To money for the Barthodi pedestal Now
we are ready put him In the way OF getting as much
money for It In hour he has got In fortnght-pro-
vded he told the truth in the above. IL he hasn't
but let anticipated
We are ready this morning deposit with T. K.wright.
cashier OF Park Bank certified check for ten thou
sand dollars to be contributed by him for to the Bar
thodi fund on condition that perfectly fair and Inn
partial committee the President OF the American News
Company the President OF the Adams Express Company
and the Editor either of The sun or The Herald as MI
Pulitzer may prefer after full examination Of the books
and records OF both THE TRIBUNE and The World with full
right TO examine employees AID other witnesses under
oath and with full to both pressrooms shall decide
The Worlds statements about the
of the two papers above quoted TO be trne and on the
sole further condition that Mr. Pulitzer shall have first
deposited with Mr. Wright certified check for the same
A.. "a, fHtIpT nDIfN "a Eras h
Air Fund the said committee decide these statements OF
The World to be untrue.
Now Brother Pulitzer, II You told the TRUTH here's
good lift for your fund you ddn tell the truth, even
your naughty msdeed snail be oyerruied to help the chill
dren OF the poor.
Then after that check is disposed Of can have five
thousand more deposited with Mr.. Wright you to de-
post the same and the committee to award as fol-
lows in any one Of ne i've edses named ostoc, you
first telling tho committee your choice to which one
of the five you will try for II 1t find that you told the
truth when you said The Sunday World had five times the
circulation OF The SUNDAY TRIBUNE. the whole of our
money to 20 the BaTthodi pedestal Ill you didn't tell
the truth the whole OF yours TO go to THE TRIBUNE Fresh
Air Fund II nd that you told onrfths OF the TRUTH
that IL find that The Sunday World has not i've times,
hut has four times the circulation OF THE SUNDAY TRiB-
USE thousand dollars of our money go 10 the red
esa YOU didn't tell Ourths OF the truth, -FOUR thou-
sand of your money go to tue FresnAr Fund II the
did not tell threeths OF the truth three thsusand 10 20
a before II the committee find that you told only two
1fhs of the TRUTH then thousand OF our money TO
vour fund you didn't tell even twonfths OF the truth,
then two thousand of your money to our fund Ahd'
dnaTy II the committee find that you told even onehfth
of the truth and that The Sunday World has bona de
maid circulation large THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE even
then your fund shall reap the reward oyour putting only
four.nfhs falsehood into your statement by getting
thousand dollars from us.
You will observe that this is very easy on you AFTER
your brag is once disposed Of then the subsequent pun
shmcnt is reduced instead OF raised In proportion as he
acouin your statements But there's arcason
for don't want to drive you into bankruptcy
Brother Pulitzer rise up aud come forward -DiushinS
but prompt Cashier Wright is waiting for you. The
Park Bank ia next door The Herald Building on Broad
way First he has thousand dollars for your fund,
~ your statements In lump are true. Then as soon
"a that ten thousand dollars is disposed OF he Is ready
TO make the usual discounts scaling the truth In your
tatements down by hfths Even IL they have onetfth
truth you can still get thousand dollars for yonr fund
Rise up Joseph Don't be bashful, and don't be SLOW.
THROUGH THE LITTLE END OF THE HORN.
From The Troy Telegram.
This is the way The World replies TO the circuistoh