Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-19
Song of the Dying Swan.
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Houston Post.
The Galveston News q member of the West
| ern Associated Press, the only member OF that
organization in this entire section of country,
| and as member OF this organization the Gal
| weston News brings into the state of Texas the
| Associated Press reports at its own expense.
ANY statement to the contrary of TINS, from any
source whatever, is untrue. The Galveston
News pays for the transfer OF the report from
! st. Louis to Ga weston; the papers in the Inte-
rior of the pay for the transfer of the report
| from Galveston only to pc nts of distribution
within the stale. The arrangements OF the Gal
weston News allow the papers in the interior to
| get Their press &c cheaper than would 9TH
erwise be the had they to bring the reports
| from a greater distance. These are the IaCts,
and no one of honest purpose Will attempt TO
controvert this statement.-L Galveston News.
All this is buncombe. pure aud sim Pile
"a weak effort to bolster up a rapidly
declining prestige. For many years the
News had the Texas journalistic field Sc
| curely grabbed, recognizing no rivals,
and, indeed, having none. The practi-
| caily undisputed claim to O journalistic
| monopoly became the meat upon which
the naughty Caesar fed, and all other
newspapers were mere preteuders. But
! these conditions changed. The great
state of Texas was too large for even
this mighty journalistic ear. With the
| marvellous industrial progress OF recent
years came young and vigorous and pro-
gresslve newspaper enterprises, and to-
| day the once all powerful Galveston pa
| PEI Is forced 20 acknowledge several ri
vals-rivals in circulation, in newsgath-
| ering and in the estimation aud affec-
| tons of the people. Bat that old swagger,
acquired in tunes long ago-that spirit
| of Intolerance of the ella inns and merits
| of others-through force of habit mann
tanned its hold upon the News. 1t ID
,fri, op tol. tha,
| with the mistaken idea that it can
gull the people with prestige long since
worthless, which leads the News TO make
such statement as the one contained in
the foregoing paragraph. Possibly cor
rect, technically speaking (for II is an
arrangement male years ago), in spirit
and IN purpose II is false, aud is d deiib-
crate attempt 10 uisParage the enterprise
aud professional standing Of other papers
in Texas. AS the Post has already
stated, and the News will not deny, the
papers OF he Texas Associated Press do
not buy their news from the Galveston
News, and are under no sort Of obligation
TO thut concern. They buy their news
from the Western Association Press at
Chicago, and are regular customers of the
Western Associated Press, just the same
as the Galveston News is, aud the effort
of the News to make the public believe
that the other newspapers in Texas are
mere satellites REMOVING around itself, is
simply unprecedented as an exhibition of
sublimated gall. The people ars not
fools, and canuot be made to believe
that the News is generously furnished Its
rivals with club with which to crack
its own head.
n. Bit the News is working for
Trunks and not getting its pay it should
strike.