The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-08
Heart and Lungs OF the Metropolitan
Daily.

Daily.
The Sunday paper of to-day is the
money-earner and the financial hacker
of the metropolitan daily papers The
real newspapers of this country now
appear seven times each week. A
legend, Daily, except Sunday" is
sometimes encountered in the far West,
where the mad career of the daily pa
per stops from sheer imam bition one
day in the week; but in the metropolis
there is not single morning newspa-
per, entitled to the name, that does not
issue every day in the year. In this
class l do not include the shipping and
trade journais-excelleut enterprises in
themselves, but in no way related to
the journalism of the present period
The Sunday newspaper is in the field
to stay. 1t cannot be cried down the
banks" or laughed out of court. It's
critics may reviie it; the advocates of
the old Puritan Sa bbath may scorn it,
but it will con tinue to grow in circula-
ton. in profit earning capacity and,
predict in character
During the past ten years the Sunday
issue has grown to such proportions
that it has become one OK the leading
features of American journalism L.
still suffers from the early handicap of
the so-called Sunday newspapers
generally discreditable mem Der OF the
family. filed with scandal and vile
English, adorned with flaming head
lines and, of late years, embellished
!, ahn oil a5..t., hoI -
consort with the text they accompany.
This so-called Sunday newspaper, gen.
orally printed on Saturday afternoon,
containing chiefly fiction of the penny
dreadful order horrible news inven-
tons INTENDED to display the most dis
reputa bic phases of human life) and
attacks upon private character, has no
part in the ascendency of the Sunday
edition of the daily newspaper. The
vilest publications ever issued in the
English language. low in tone and d is
graceful in management have gener-
ally borne the date OF the Christian
Sabbath A generation of conscien-
tious labor on the part of legitimate
and practical newspaper workers has
been required to efface the discredit
thus cast upon the name of the Sunday
journal.
James Gordon Bennett, sr, was the
first proprietor to add 4 SUNDAY edition
to his six-6ays-in-the-w newspaper.
the New York Herald L. realized
what it meant 20 the reading pu bic to
have the events OF one day IN each
week dropped out of their lives In
no other country has the printing Of
newspapers become such a com ponent
element in commercial energy Of the
people as in the United States. The
reading OF newspa oers is part OF the
everyday life OF every man OF business.
trade or toll and the elder Bennett
was shrewd enough to see that if his
patrons were allowed to Guy any other
paper one day out the seven they
might find 1t quite convenient TO ban
bon him altogether. Familiarity with
one particular journal breeds affection.
not con tempt as the old a6age declares
Readers became accustomed TO the ap-
pearance OF their own journal They
car find their way out therein. Don ot- !
less. Mr.. Benefits real reason for al
ding a Sunday edition 10 tho Herald
come that would accrue, though il is
dou ptful Il he expected the Sunday
paper TO assume its commanding pre-
em;nence aud to become the real !