The morning call., 1892-05-13


cts Of the poor boys. may adopt the nickel
in-the-slOt device for the sake OF swelling
their bank-accounts.
If the public were Of the same mind as
the picayunsh journalists who do this, it
might help along the scheme and make
those newspaper pTopriet0Ts richer by thou
sands Of dollars.
But the public will never do that-neyer
IN the world.
Why notP
Because, strange as it may seem to GER
tain mOBey-lOying newspaper proprietors.
good many people have hearts.
See those boys Oh the street, selling their
papers.
Do they ask you for charity?
Are they not manly little fellows, as
rule, who simply want to get their nickel
for their papers and go their way without
making any more trouble than is necessary?
Who cares II they do stick their papers
up in peoples faces and ask them to buy?
Watch a good, whole-sOuled man going
along the street-a maG with heart in
him-a whole man.
See how the newsboys gather along the
way and stick up their papers at him.
What does be do?
Does he frOwn and cursor
No, he smiles at the boys good-naturedly;
perhaps winks at them, and If he does NOT
want paper he shakes his head.
Perhaps be wants a paper and buys it
from boy.
Perhaps he has two or three in his over
coat pocket and buys one anyway, saying:
Poor little devils; I'll give 'em chance
to make living, even II l don't want a
paper. There are good many Of them,
and how they all get along is a mystery"
That sort of man isn't particular about
the change when be hands out dime. The
ehancesare he will say when the boy hands
back the nickel, Never mind; you've got
more use for 1t than l have" Which is
quite true IN most cases.
But here comes man who wants paper
and wants one very badly. He is not run
after by the newsboys They do not like
the looks Of him. He looks like a stingy,
scraping small-souled man. He has to
call to a boy to attract his attention, and
the boys eyes open with wonder when he
receives a dime instead OK a nickel. The
boy has no change. He starts on the run
TO the b00tblacks stand to get two fve-cent
pieces for tie dime.
"Stop, you little thiefP' squeaks out the
man. Don't YOU run off with my five cents"
The boys face Pushes. He Is manly
boy, and were it not tor the needy mother
home he would throw the man his dime
and let him keep the paper. But he cannot
afford such an outbreak of righteous in
and the man follows, keepiug a close eye
upon him until he clutches his change in his
hand.
That man-that excuse for man, we
might say-wOuld patroniZe a machine
newsboy," even though a poor, starving,
flesh and blood newsboy were standing by
its side and Offering him paper.
The machine, says the newspaper
which expects to put these machines all
over the city, sis a handsome cabinet of
hoA With nio LOT
castings and corner-pieces."
Much nicer, you see, than the flesh and
blood Dewsboye Bis patched clothing ana
tattered little hat wouldn't make much of a
showing against such magniicence as that,
would il?
SIT delivers the goods into the purchas-
eTs hand without any double notion"
says the newspaper proprietor who likes it
80 well.
But you have to walk up to it in order to
get your paper, and penniless Dewsboy
would chase you 10 blocks on the run for
making 2k cents. He would risk his life.
running under horses heads and jumping
upon hying cable-csrs, 10 make that single
sale, which means so much 70 him, though
II may mean little TO you.
1t is absolutely hOnest," they say OF the
machine.
Well, lifeless, automatic man or news
boy may be free from sin. No flesh-and-
blood man or newsbOy IS. But what is the
sin OF an eight-yeaT-old boy to a grinding,
meTclless mOney-lOveT, whose hard cash is
no harder than his heart?
The new company will give EN- ployment
TO about 200 machines 10 commence with.
and will increase their force as soon as the
machines can be obtained"
And 800 persons who depend for living
upon the sales OF newspapers may go and
die, if they please. OF leave the country, if
they can.
Thoughtless persons may buy their papers
that way. Thoughtful ones will not The
latter will say, well. the newspaper that
supports that sort of thing wants to hog
the whole five cents, instead Of letting the
uewsboys have a chance Of making little
money out Of its sale.
cit will sell newspapers In remote
suburbs" says the machines friend. where
a newsstand does not pay and where the
ubiquitous newsbOy does not penetrate"
But where you will always fnd some
where in the neighboThood poor woman
who keeps "branch bakery" and who sells
newspapers and makes from them part Of
her neager profits, on which she depends
for living.
''The effect Of the introduction Of this ma
chine will, it Is believed. be to Immensely
increase the sales and consequently the
prodts OF the newspapers, as well as W IN
eaIcnlably enrich the inventors. >
Wrong. The fesh-aDd-blood newsDoy
friends are In tile majority. The ma
F-Faufc-4ha man with uap0l6- DOlQt