The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-04-29
Texas Journalism,

A good deal Is being said by lead
ng Texas papers about local, metro
politan and even cosmopolitan jour
nalism. The Galveston News, no
ADLER or better in any respect than |
other papers, published in town no
more significant in any respect than
other towns, assumes and really does
give the law to the other papers of
the state in many respects. We Ito
not blame the News, we only blame
the other papers for tamely submit
ting to it, TO-; giving up their honest
convictions upon its simple dictum.
The News has a wider circulation
than other papers only because it is
older, and more fortunate
in the m cans and ability which
it has been able to bring to bear on
the field it has occupied so long. IL
has domineered over other and small
err papers so long and so successfully
that it now never questions or doubts
its own right to do so, and this feel
ing is widely shared in by other pa
pers. 1t is only now and then that
we find q paper with the nerve requi.
site to enable ii 10 cross the hawsor
of the pretentious Galveston paper.
If we will glance at the field only for
a moment we will discover that not
only is she without geographical adj
vantage. but she Is at a positive
disadvantage. She is just fifty miles
further away than Houston. There
is nothing between Houston and Gal
weston to support newspaper and
very little at Galveston to support the
News. There has always been war
between II aud the inhabitants of the
island. Houston has many advan-
tages over Galveston and in geograph-
ical location alone she is away oui
ahead. All the lines of rail In the
state converge at Houston and her
means of distribution are far better
than Galveston, and her local patron.
age OF newspapers always more libernl
than that city. Now why is it that witt
far inferior meaus Galveston gives
the law TO Houston with superior
means. There is an Interesting ques.
ton right here, and people ought t'
solyeit. The causes are not found il
the superior ability of the News, be
cause il is in no whit ADLER than tn,
other papers, il is in no way better
only that its greater patronage en-
ables it to print more matter, blu
nothing of higher grade than othe
| papers, and we have shown that II
point of geographical situation it
at great disadvantage a. compared
with Houston. Now, what is il
\ Why is il that 1t maintains its superi
GRITTY?
Plainly and evidently for want Q
competent opposition at Houston o
elsewhere. They can never offer IL q
Houston until some company take
hold there which is strong enough I
run newspaper without reference I
the local business of Houston, while
is controlled absolutely by a ring G
combination which the paper must !
I strong enough to defy. II it can d
J, this and live until Its superior meri
0 as a journal to the News becomes al
y parent to the state, 1t will then ha'
0 an even break, save that il will hay
tho advantage of being fifty mill
nearer the people and more secnl
means of reaching them. But no pap'
which is not entirely independent
every way OF the local influences
Houston can live or do well The
has been perhaps two hundred al
fifty thousand dollars expended
c the experiment to force Houston loo
n prejudices on the state, and 1t is
r dismal failure. We are glad that
: has been so far only Houston none
j. which has been so spent.
IL Austin, Waco, or Dallas will in Il
= near future publish the paper of Il
Il state. and it is due TO the News a
/ probation of this fact tLat Lowe is
Dallas prospecting. But the New
a can do no more in Dallas than Il
n Herald has done, because it has I