The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-11
The jersey CITY News ia a New ORES,

Ahe JeFset lily news "a q New Dress.
Today. The JERSEY Cry News shares
its present prosperity with it's readers
and patrons by giving them the benefit of
a complete new dress of type. By making
the entire sheet handsomer, clearer and
more legible. we are confident, the outlay
will prove a profitable investment. With
its new and smiling face presenting the
unmistakeabie signs of progress and sue
cess, the paper will be more than ever a
welcome visitor in Jersey City homes, and
the growth OF circulation which has been
somarked u feature Of its history for 1898
will at C acquire a new impetus.
We believe we are not obliged to tell the
public today, that TIE JERSEY CITY
NEWS has achieved q firm, lasting and
most gratifying success. that the hopes of
its founders and proprietors have been
realized, that not only is it a power IN the
community as a vehie'e of intelligence
and an organ of honesty and progress but
that it is besides a secure business sue
cess, a profitable speculation as well as a
great political and moral force. The posi-
ton achieved by The News, we believe, is
universally recognized. and we feel bound
to say that the last few months have
brought through public and private
sources so many fiatrering tokens of the
estimation in which THE NEWS is held,
that in these alone we end a handsome
reward for the work that has been done
in building up the enterprise.
THE News now represents an invest
ment of nearly 500, 900 in capital and of
almost I'VE years Of untiring effort. In
return for the money and labor sunk in it,
it possesses a good modern plant; a splen-
didly organized working force; q circula-
ton in Jersey City only a few hundred
less than that of the Evening Journal,
which has been nearly thirty years estab-
lished in this city; a circulation in Ho-
boken equal to that of the Eeening Jour
nal and the Hoboken Evening Neacs COM
binedi . reputation for enterprise in col
Letting and publishing the news, and for
vigor and directness in expressing It's
views.
Above all, this paper has acquired the
absolute confidence of the people as being
totally i~ncorruptibIe. There is not money
enough in the treasury of any corporation
in New Jersey to buy one line of its news
or editorial columns There is no Office.
honor or advantage which could avail to
lure from it one sentence which was not
in harmony with its own conceptions of
what was right and fitting. Equally
there is no threat that can turn it aside
from the path OF duty. Everything has
been tried in vain by certain criminals In
this community. Personal violence has
been spoken Of; the municipal
boards under a corrupt regime have
used their power to coerce THE NEWS
into the support of vicious politics; at
tenapts have been made to abuse the pro-
cess of the law to procure vengeance on
the managers of THE NEWS for fighting
the peoples battles. Resort has even.
been had to the Legislature, and there is
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law which was aimed for the destruction
Of The News ~ the unrelentinR foe OF a
corrupt ring. But none OF these efforts of
criminal m~alignity have had any terrors
for us. In response to each attack, THE
NEWS has simply put renewed vigor INTO
its warfare npon corruption and crime,
has with fresh enthusiasm espoused the
cause Of law and order and economy 10
public affairs. Relying on the justice OF
its cause. the soundness of its own con-
science and the appreciation of the citi-
zens, it has kept on the even tenor of it's
way. while obscene politicians have i'm
poteutiy ragged ABOUT 1t.
1t is how just abont a year since the
final battle was begun. A powerful com
binatiou. including q then would-be
United States Senator, the then boss OF
Democratic politics in this county, and a
number Of other influential and wealthy
persons whose interests were largely in
VOWED In the maintenance of the old rule
Of robbery In this county and city, banded
themselves together to destroy tbs NEWS.
They controlled the municipal govern
naent OF this city, they controlled the
Legislature: to lessen the tax on their
own pockets, they were able to blackmail
sne clerks in the public Offices Of this city.
II tie means OF corruption n crime
could suffice in any way TO kill one news
paper and make another q success, then
surely TIE News was doomed and the
Desnocyu4 was a dividend payer from the
day Of its institution.
But newspapers are neither made nor
killed that way. The Ripgsters resorted
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