The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-10-25
SAFE PRESS PICKINGS.
THE DALLAS NEWSPAPERS.
"a Others See Us--rhe Press OF the
state Having Their owa Fua at
Their Dallas Contemporaries.
How They View the sitaa-
tion-other State News.
ny THE NATURE or Tnrvos. .

Nm THE NATURE OF THyNGs.n
The Galveston News doesn't seem 10
have struck oi.sby boring into IT'S
neighbor's territory ia Dallas. 1t has
now been nearly month since ii To-
Gated us branch there, and from the
VASE preparations that were daily her
aided for months in Sdvanee Of its
coming, people naturally expected !
at least in advance of Ts.
HERALD. But when it failed In Tins
giving tess general news from oyerthe
e0untry-nOt having the right OF the
New York Associated Press dis |
eatches-and less local news, aud no |
more State news, as say the
people OF Dallas who have com. |
pared the papers each mOrnlng. |
ideas are rapidly changing. AMI |
then its small advertising pasronaea
would seem TO indicate constant los, |
of money. In the meantime, the old |
reliable Aunt Elizabeth, lighting lar
her rights on her own hill and In her |
own homo where she has ipyestod nj |
her own earnings for years in the nsst. |
IN Infused with new and wonderful |
vigor. II there had been field enough |
for TWO fine morning dailies in Dallas,
or II the News had gone there with its |
own money; or If il had not arrogsutly
SGT itself up 10 "cover the whole OF
journalism IN Texas tor all time; after
tho fashion ota sslf.constituted usur-
per, as though other local journals
could not 60 as well--thea APP
peRranees would have been better Tor
IT, But the News goes into anoiher's
naf0-Wcrksd region, that tho latter
hau p!owed and narrowed and planted
IN Tor nearly 40 years, and which, hay
Ing titus worked up through cloudy
weather as we'll as sunshine, the News
wanted 10 reap the harvest from. And
tnen, bosides, IL did not go there with
Its own capital as against THE HER
AID. IL went, as has been EXPRESSED.
as = sort of "subsidized iuterloper.,'
Furthermore, IL is reported that The
HERALD even tried 10 consolidate or
10 sell, we'll enough knowing that Dial,
las YVES too small for two such paners,
and that fOilure was bound to come 10
somebody II Tho folly shonld be per-
sisted in. These busiuesg-like oven
lures We're arrogantly declined BY tho
Rews. Aud now II is witnessing tho
disastrous elects, as its now advsttis-
ing columns damOnsirate. For tho
tuturei therefore. Of two things, one:
Either lhe head at Galveston viii have
To co0a up 20 the ,ail, ur the Dallas
branch tutn tail and, like tho prodigal
SON. 70 back 20 its home. Mr.. Bennett.
Of rho New York Herald, had To do i
similar .hing once with his Chicago
experiment. MIR. Forney met With
the same disastrous failure with hia
Qoubie-bGrreled arrangement, envy
two morning dailleg,p in WASH.
inptcn and PHILADELPHIA, " 70 In the
nature Of things. Ii in this instance
Tho hess coma 10 the tail 10 meets 4
powerful and organized opposition In
TIE HERALD-a paper on solid, sGfe.
financial basie, and which Dallas and
North Toxas regards es tho old reli
able ~ it5 devotion 20 their exclusive
snd BEST Interests, and watch viii al
ways prefer tho patronage and moral
ana material support 10Y II, sind have
its confidence and ita sympathy and
affections. y the.tail goes back to lilo
L9ad, Il returns 10 a point whera II Is
without competition, and whore itB
real interest and only salvation lies.
lt Temains to be seen whether pride or
profit will prevail-I Fort Worth Mail.
\ DREADFUL FATE,
Thai the newspaper Is one OF tho me-
oessities of life at present admits no
dolb'. It, tha newspaper, Is sine
qua non to all CARRYING towns with get
up ard get, and there are few towns
which woulG not rs soon think OF civ
ing up nor mayor and aldermen, az
STRIVING 30 exist without its daily IA.
per. but II is en- GqhOrlsm OF human
lty Jhat enough is as good as q fengt,
aud town mgy have too many OF
even as good u thing as newspapers.
a town may IN fact, 10 newspapered
10 death, snd Dallas, which has
now five or six daily pa.
peie, Two OF them of magnitude, may
very reasonably look on her acuuiei-
lions rather as an inilction than q
great blessing, ana eventually coms to
damn nOwspaporG as blres and
nuisances. 10 will not DO many moons
boiOro the visitor will observe on the
faces OF hor merchants snd officials,
her hack drlvers and saloon keepers, n
wlld, scared look as Of ono being
hunted aud a weary, l0t-me-iay. down.
neutrality-suspicious. lsuguOr touching TO
behold, tho effect ol newspaper re-
portorial borDgs. Tho sight of q
memorandum book and pencil
VIII YET come TO be a red rag 20 the
DillaSltes, and put them into fits of
terror and rage. But the effect OF iloodR
OF news and heavy editorials will bo q
strain on tho rabust braius of the fair
city. TheY will relishit for gwbil, and
earnestly 0ndeaYor 20 do their duty In
Keeping M with tho procession and
reading what is written, the only
happy follows being those who can't
rerd. They viii like 1t at hrsJ and
drink in Sterrott'a matohloss crisp
paragraphs as r0lieh, worry their
braine with the News' delicate kid
ElCVa editorials and tackle tho nom
derous editorials OF ruE HERALD with
cheerful resignation, and 10 ono Will
ever know tho dheful Iuomsnt when
Dallas brains win regin 20 give way
under tho strain. lE viii come stleuuv
and unobsarvcd. Quietly tho GOOD
citlzonS will suocumD and drop on ono
by Que aud qu.etiy 10 laid away, or ~
silently DO carried ono by ono, guarded
by deputy sheriff 20 Austin or Tor.
fel. Some of the more sensible ones, |
toeing the evil in advance, viii quietly
iold thoir tents Ike Arabs |
ana ht!ontly steal away TIL
Dallas viii look like = city
stricken by tho plague, Then the |
heWspaper reporters oIiy0n 10 despair
by the lugubrious lack OF local lowe
VIII drown themselves one by one IN !
th0 dark waters of tho Trinity, aud |
nothing Will be loft but tho newepa-
pors themselves, the heavy editorials |
atiil grinding out massive philOloElcal |
on the political ei,uation. |
The papors will live ON tho sufround- |
ing country, where the bralu II tough |
or, iohg alter tho poor Dsllasitcs have |
He'd as last refuge to land whore |
thore are no newspapers.-lW Waco Ex-
aminer.
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