The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-03-02
DANISH NEWSPAPERS.
A DANISH llTTERATEUR NOW IN
AMERICA WRITES ABOUT THEM.
The Great Onicial sheet III Denmark,
which Was started 40 Years Ago-The
Papers of the Opposition-The Magazines.
The small Chance of the Reporter.
LSnec!aI Correspondence.l

! privileged BerllnGSke lldehde ana Inc MO
banhavus PoSt-Tldender.
Newspapers they could hardly be called,
as there was not much of news ia either of
them They were issued twice u week, and
the little foreign and local news they CON
| tanned would by Us he considered too old 10
be called news But modest and patient, as
| the Danes of that timc must have been, they
seemed To be perfectly contented and to
think it hut fair that they should wait
twenty days or even longer for the latest
news from Paris during the great revolution.
Now it il otherwise IT, what Is not alto
gether unlikely, there is 10 be IA French revo-
luton in 1859 the Danes will have the news
almost as quickly aS France herself. The
only nation that will be ahead OF the Danes
now is the American, who usually get the
news ahead of all countries,
At the present time there are issued sixteen
daily, thirty eight weekly and thirty-three
monthly newspapers in Copenhagen. The
number of journals published in the different
provinces is at least one hundred and fifty
and the greater part of the provincial news
papers are issued daily.
The oldest and wealthieSt of Danish news
papers is The Bcrlmgske rienic or, to show
the stunning length of its name in full, The
Den til Torsendelse med dc kougcliSe Brev-
poster privilegerede Berlmgske politiske og
Avert isSements- ridende which, translated,
reads as follows; The Berlingskc political and
advertising newspaper, privileged to be sent
through the royal letter mail,
The Beringske Tidende, as it generally is
called, was published for the first time in the
year lii9, and, as mentioned above, was for
many years issued twice Il week only. The
main privileges then granted to the Berlng
brothers as n favor by the king of Denmark,
who was at that time as powerful "A monarch
in his country as the ear of Russia is in his,
consisted in law which provided that all Of
fetal advertisements should be published i'll
the newspaper owned by the two Berling
brothers This privilege, which exists to
this very day, has made the family Berlng
one of the wcalthiest in Denmark, and has
at the same time made it very difficult, If not
impossible, for any other newspaper to sue
coed Being the official organ, or what Is the
same, the government journal, almost every
official is compelled to read il. This has Sc
! cured for 1t the extensive circulation il has all
over tho country and consequently made 1t
| the greatest advertising medium. The Ber-
lingslie Tidcndc is thus enabled to command
! higher advertising rates than any other Dan
! ISL newspaper. The Berlingske Tidende has
| a morning and an evening edition. The morn
! Ing edition is the advertising edition. 1t con-
tains as II rule eight or ten pages, and each
page has six columns, two of which briefly
mention the news of the previous evening and
night. The evening edition -four or six pages
| is the main edition and contains as such
news, foreign and local. articles of general
interest, correspondence from all parts of the
! globe and some advertisements. The cirCu-
lation of The Berlingske Tidende can be es.i-
mated to be from 20, 600 to 1000 copies, and
it earns from $4,000 to $4,000 a year.
The Berling brothers were not literary
men, and as none of their successors have
shown themselves as yet qualified to edit a
newspaper the editorial management of The
Berlingske Tidende has always been left in
hands which the proprietors could trust At
present DR.. Philip f. Manicus is the manag-
ing editor Dr. Mancus is highly esteemed
citizen, but is not a man of letters and does
not rank high in the literary world of Den
mark. Being the government newspaper it
Is unnecessary to say that The Berlingske
Tidende is very conservative, very cautious
as to what it publishes, very reliable, but
consequently often very tiresome to read.
The most prominent of other daily news
papers published in Copenhagen are The
Natonaltidende, The Dagbladet, The Dagens
Nyheder The Morgenbladet The Politiken,
The Socademokraten and The Avisen.
The Nationaltidende The National Tines
is the largest. but by no means the best news
paper in Denmark Nevertheless, it has been
u great Success One might, of course on u
small scale, compare its career with that OF
The New York World. By publishing all the
news, facts and canards, in short everything
that is Of interest to tho great non-critical
public, The Nationaltidende has made its sue
cess, People do not trust it to any great ex-
tent, but like to read it, The Nationaltidende
! is owned by a company, as Is the case with
most of the Danish newspapers, and Mr. II.
! Il. Hiarth LarenZen, who is not much of y
! journalist, but very able business man, is its
managing editor. During the last year The
| Nationaltidendo has been greatly improved
and has gained largely in circulation and al
! vertising patronage, 1t is conservative in
! politics,
| The Dagbladet (The Daily Journal was at
ono timo considered the leading Danish news
paper. 1t was then edited by Mr. Carl de
| Bile. Mr.. de Billie, who is one of the most
| gifted journalists Denmark has ever had, was
| Tor some years the DANISH minister 10 W ASH
! ington, and viii be fayorably remembered as
such. But from the moment Mr. de Bile
who since he returned, has led a somewhat
retired aud obscure life, left the editorial
| chair Of The Dagbladet, it lost all its former
| influence, little by littlc and is now mostly
read by priests and other high conservative
gentlemen of the good old SCHOOL,
| The Dageus Nyheder CIhe Daily News is a
conservative morning newspaper, started
nineteen years ago, and is fairly prosperous.
| 1t is considered a good newspaper and is well
managed by its gifted editor, ilr. c. Cars
teucen. The Morgcnbladet The Morning
Journal used to be quite famou, and inhuen-
tial, being then the main organ of the oppo-
sition. partly owned rs it was by Mr.. Berg,
the great political leader of the Democratic
party But since the party was split up into
several antagonistic parties, and since Mr..
Berg ceased TO be considered the great man
he used TO be--he was defeated as president
of the folkething (house Of commemorative
Morgenbladet lost a great deal OF Us former
influence. 1t is now mostly read outside Of
Copenhagen by country and provincial
people 1t seems, however, as if Mr.. Berg's
star is somewhat in the ascendant, and it
may be that The Morgenbladet viii rise once