The Sunday morning news., 1891-11-08
Mr.. Furst and the News.

FOR the QfSl Liile Siucb i HE y ERSE \
CITY NEWS was established, the ad-
advertisement of Mr. Charles s. Furst
is missing from our columns today on
Sunday morning in the height of
the business season. This Is because
Mr.. Furst is mad with us.
Dir. Furst is angry with us because
we published 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 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-
tising patronage, not as legitimate
business investment, but as sort of
bribe to secure silence regarding his
doings and dealings, whatever shape
they might take. 1t is needless to say
that there was no such understand
ing on our side. and at first we were
inclined TO feel indignant at Mr.. Furst
for indulging in any such misconstruc-
tion of simple business relations.
But we have since seen reason to
make some charitable allowance for
him, recognizing as we do the source
OF his error. Mr. Furst has been
accustomed for years to deal with the
Eoeni5ag Journal He has been
accustomed to dictate 70 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 re-
preventative of The NEWS the
fact that he had been able to
suppress the report OF the Free
holders m Getting in the Journal, and
he complained bitterly because we
were not similarly ysubservient to him.
or course, Mr.. Furst ought to have
known better. He is 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 Nc
Kinlcv tin button for Mr.. Furst's
business would be 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 anc
progress. But we do not care enougf
for Mr.. Furst's custom or anybod,
else's to forfeit for it one iota Of truth
that ought to be told to the public o
Jersey City. In the past three year
| we have expended thousands of dol
lars in demonstrating that fact, and i
| is Kind Of 9eductio ad dbsugcLl1m ts
have to 20 over the ground again fol
Mr.. Furst's benefit.
| Indeed there Is something lndicrous
! in the idea of Mr. Furst undertaken,
to punish The News because il
would not suppress the proceedings
OF public board, OF which it is til,
official organ. to cover up his delin
| quencies. 1t shows such a beautifu
Inconsistencies OF the relative pro
| portion Of things. Instead of takins
advantage of our liberality in opening
our columns to him for explanation
| or re futation OF the charges agains
him, he resolves to overwheln
us with disaster by depriving u
of az patronage winch would no
begin to pay our gas bills. Reall,
we should think Mr.. Furst like Juliar
Ralph's Dutch Barber would fee