The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-06-03
Journalistic Comp parsons.

empty pretense of some of our Texas
papers should be reproved. If undis-
puted they create false impressions
and tend to continue species of
humbug which is immoral because
untruthfnl and misleading. We have
here in Texas perhaps the richest
farming country on, earth, and our
population ranks second TO none in
the country for per-capita wealth.
There ought to be at least seven first
class daily papers in Texas, and these
all making money. This would put
us on a level with some other western
states, and would do us good. Now
our devotion TO Texas Is well under
stood and If in the cause of right, we
propose TO give our readers a little
grain or so of truth this morning the
motive will not be misunderstood.
The News claims pre-eminence over
all other western and southern papers
in Journalistic enterprise and ability
Let us see. Take the Kansas City
Times which although published in
Missouri is peculiarly Kansas paper,
having 95 per cent. of its business
there. 1t is published in city of not
more than ten thousand more people
than the News, and it has first-class
morning competition in the Journal,
very nearly ii not quito as good a
paper. 1t publishes more matter
every day than the News. does on
Sunday and always of higher grade
of professional excellence. 1t
publishes moro special Geographic
matter in one issue than the News
does in ten, De ii remembered that
Kansas is the only field outside OF
Kansas City when the Times enjoy s
and Kansas has but little over half as
many people as Texas. The News
claims tacitly If not vehemently that
she is par excellence the paper of the
Texas. Now why is she not, with al
these advantages, the peer OF the
Times. She has had the field to her
self for forty years, while the Times
has always had able, alert and formi'
dable opposition right at home, a
Topeka, at Atkinson and at Leaven
worth, while she is within a stones
throw of the great dailies both o
Chicago and st Louis. Where is hel
excellence, her pre-eminent virtues
. when brought into comparison wit
: the Kansas City, times. Doe
not the simple statemen
of the case completed
puncture these stupid pretentioni
Take Colorado, to pcrsue the matte
further, Colorado with but one roI
resentative in congress arguing
population of hundred and fort
8 thousand, has two daily papers q
Denver, either one ofwhich is by ia
the superior of the News considere
o from journalistic stand point, an
o two in Leadville fully her equal. b
any snch rule and with the New
bloated pretentions she ought TO hav
!, twenty thousand daily circulation an
make very much larger paper tina
either of them.
e. To pursue the comparison furth'
1t we might take Indianapolis with h,
Of two excellent morning papers 81
is midway from Chicago, st. Louis as
Cincinnati, and OF course comes'ini
i active competition with these place
II The News, let it not be forgotten,
!" her own showing has no opposite
W and yet she struts and plumes herse
upon her vast enterprise, her busineI
,r sagacity, her ability and her life-loI
nc leadership of the press of Texa
in Either of the papers we have name
re above can point TO a record Of NOR
h success. They have each of them INT
in public life and men in the silel
in grave whose fame they have mac
is or whose ruin they have wrougl
re But what great man orprinciple h
70 the News ever built up, or what bs
ic man or policy owes its defeat to Il
potency of the Galveston Rosceu
Not one. She has never taken dc
NJ lars risk for friend or foe, for good I
- bad. She has gone on in chea
= johnish way gathering money for
nc first-class paper, and giving for 1t
VI flfth-rate journal, even II it reach
u" that altitude.
IL And yet with all this, with all the
a, hard facts staring them in the face u
81 people of Texas seem satisfied TO
-, graded ON the outside by this misro
~ resenting and misleading paper. Thu
"a have given up their fatness to suppo
~ charlatan at Galveston rather thi
go TO help in the establishment
fairly representative papers at HON
The day of enlightment will con
gs The day will come when there will
nd seven or eight papers in the sta
of every whit as good as the News, Al
rk 1t will be far better for the morals, ?
Ie- litical I'D commercial, ofTexas, whc
lie It's people have been emancipated fro
or the iron rule of the News. IN has
or blood, no warm, generous SYM
by thies with or In common with the pc
ire pie. II is as cold and unsympathe
We as a frog, and we have shown cleal
DO above, we think, that in comparis
tie with other papers Of even inferior !