The morning call., 1893-05-24
HE is AFTER BLOOD.
James Gordon Bennett Wants a
Little Revenge.
Still the Proprietor of the Herald
and He Will Continue to
Be, Too.

NEW YORK, May %. = The Herald,
referring to the Reuter- telegram TO
London of the fact that Benefits name
had been removed from the editorial
page and the rumor that the property
would be turned into stock company with
So 100000 and Bennett as controlling
stockholder, says: The proprietor of the
Herald has instructed George Lewis OF
London to inform Reuters agency that
unless it publishes categorical denial of
the ridiculous report emanating from
il and prints the substance of this
editorial, which appears simultaneously
in the European and New York editions
of the Herald, legal proceedings far
libel will be taken against it. In case this
action comes into court we think that
Lewis will have no difficulty in proving all
the requisite malice prepense.
About two months ago Reuters agency
had the run OF the Herald office. Their
agent had access in New York to all our
kilograms, not only from all parts of
the United States, but also from
Mexico. Panama, North America. Canada
and elsewhere. But their news service
to Europe was so skeletonized that the
proprietor of the Herald withdrew the
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his own expense to the London papers, on
condition of their publishing it with credit,
and for no pecuniary compensation. This
perhaps has been onepf Reuters reasons
for publishing the libel.
The Herald to-day is at the height of its
prosperity, and any syndicate having for
its sole object tie making of money could
easily earn 6 per cent on $4,000, 900 by
taking off the extra expenses for special
cabling, for now the United Press
is quite effective enough under the able
| supervision of Messrs. Laffan & Phillips,
reducing the extraordinary salaries of
200 which some of the Herald staff re-
ceive, cutting also some of the $4,000 and
$4,000 and cnrtailing many of the $4,000
salaries, besides numerous other econo-
mics that would at once be effected, sup
posing the Herald 10 be simply corpora
ZION like any ordinary railroad or factory.
| The present proprietor, it Is true, has in
view the formation of cooperative
society, but one of sole benefit to the mem
bsrs of the Herald staff, including the
general manager, city editor, news
editor, night editor. all other
editors, correspondents, reporters, artists.
cashier, clerks, foremeu of the press and
| mposing-roOms, prOof-readers. cemposi-
tors, printers. exchange readers, ship
ping clerks. telegraph clerks, advertis-
ing clerks, messengers, porters. fire.
men and mechanics. for they are all
members of the Herald staff, are they moi /?
And not for any stock-jobbing or specula-
| tive purposes. as has been done so often
| 10 England and America. This ce-opera-
| tive society may be formed at any moment
by the proprietor whenever be thinks
| proper.
The founder of the Herald disposed of
| it few years before his death for ST
to its present proprietor, and in order
to avoid any post mortem interference
by politically biased courts under the guse
| of proceedings for legal construction of
! the will, as in the Tilden will case not
| long ago. The proprietor of the
Herald proposes to follow the ex-
ample of its founder and direct the
disposition Of the Herald without outside
Intervention of any kind. He believes that
| in perpetuating the property in this way
he can best build lasting and loving mon-
ument to its founder James Gordon Ben
nett the elder.
1.-The removal of the name OF
the proprietor from the editorial
page had no significance other than
that its further retention was deemed
unnecessary. So learned a Judge as
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge recently pro-
claimed from the English bench that the
New York Herald and Bennett are
| synonymous. The names CT Messrs.
| Howland, Reick and Henderson,
that appear on the editorial
| a.
because he reserves the privilege of select
ing his own executive. and desires credit
10 be given where credit is DUE"