The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-08
Mr.. Fursr and the News.

For the first time since The JERSEY
CITY News was established, the ad-
advertisement of Mr.. Charles s. Furst
10 missing from our columns today on
a Sunday morning in the height of
the business season. This is because
Mr.. Furst is mad with us.
Mr.. Furst is angry with us because
we published a report OF the proceed
ings of the Board Of Freeholders, in
which his dealings with the county
were placed in a very ugly light by
Storekeeper Manning and Freeholder
Ellis in the performance Of their
official duty.
Mr.. Furst appears to have imagined
that because he inserted a certain
number of advertisements annually
in THE News he was purchasing a
certain control over our news columns.
He seems to have regarded his adver-
Using patronage, not as a legitimate
business investment, but as a sort OF
bride to secure silence regarding his
doings and dealings, whatever shape
they might take. 1t is needless to say
that there was nc such understand
ing on our side, and at first we wore
inclined to feel indignant at Mr.. Furst
for indulging In any such misconstruc-
ton of simple business relations.
Bat we have since seen reason to
make some charitable allowance for
him, recognizing as we do the source
OF his error. MI. Furst has been
accustomed for years to deal with the
Erening Journal. He has been
accustomed to dictate to it what it
shall or shall not publish. on the
strength of the advertising for which
he pays in its columns. This is what
he did in the present case. He
actually Haunted in the face of a re-
preventative OF THE NEWS the
fact that he had been able to
suppress the report of the Free
holders Meeting in the Journal, and
he complained bitterly because we
were not similarly s~ubservient to him.
OF course. Mr.. Furst ought to have
known better. He is a shrewd enough
man to have found out by this time
that the two papers are run on very
different principles. But in his ex-
perience with the Journal we find
some palliation for Mr.. Furst's
wrong-headedness. and we are there
fore inclined to regard his course as
merely weak and foolish.
To say that we do not care a Nc
Kinlcy tin button for Mr.. Furst's
business would be a misstatement of
the case. We make money by selling
space in our advertising columns, and
everything however small, contributes
to the sum total. Besides we desire
to draw to ourselves the patronage
Of all the traders of Jersey City. We
hope the time will come when
every house on Montgomery street
and Newark avenue will be repre-
sented in our editions. We
desire that THE JERSEY CITY News
shall become identified intimately
with every phase of the city's life and
progress. But we do not care enough
for Mr.. Furst's custom or anybody
else's to forfeit for it one iota of truth
that ought to be told to the public OF
Jersey City. In the past three years
we have expended thousands of dol
lars in demonstrating that fact, and it
is a kind of reductio al dbsurdum to
have to go over the ground again for
Mr.. Furst's benefit.
Indeed there is something ludicrous
in the idea of Mr.. Furst undertaking
to punish The News because it
would not suppress the proceedings
OF a public board, of which it is the
official organ, to cover up his delin-
quencies. 1t shows such a beautiful
Inconsistencies of the relative pro
portion of things. Instead of taking
advantage of our l~iberality in opening
our columns to him for explanation
or REPUTATION of the charges against
him, he resolves to overwhelm
us with disaster by depriving us
of al patronage which would not
begin to pay our gas bills. Really
we should think Mr.. Furst like Julian
Ralph's Dutch Barber" would feel