The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-20

says
We are In receipt Of a copy Of the pro
ceccings Of the Georgia Grand Command
. cry Of knights Tcmplar. bearing the
. imprint Of the SAVANNAH MOBNTNG News
job Office.
Geographically this is one of the hand
. soonest pamphlets we have lately seen.
4 The VorgeOusly illuminated cover is
I particularly attractive, printed as 10 is in
I two OF the latest series of handsome type
that have been issued by one of the
. eastern type foundries Ia the purchase
and use of this type the MORNING NEWS
. people pay "a very high compliment 10 the
foundry making il. and one that will be
more highly appreciated when 1t is known
/ that IL is made by one of the foundries
/ that the president of the Morning News
l Company asked the Georgia editors to
1 withhold their patronage from ina resolu-
ton offered az the last meeting of the
Georgia Press Association.
Is not the MORNING News somewhat
| inconsistent in the purchase and use of
this type when the publisher Of the NEWS
offered and had passed the resolution
referred to- pledging the members not to
patrOnize what is called the American
Type Founders Company, but to buy their
material from foundries outside Of this
so-called "cOmbine"1
But, after all perhaps the SAVANNAH
MORNING News is not different from the
Atlanta Journal and other first-class print
ing establishments, in wanting the best to
be had in type and other facilities. This
is just as it should be, but we cannot re
frain from gOod-naturedlyr I'VE
told you So"
We regret that the Journal shows such
anxiety to defend the type founders trust
t is true that the proprietor of the Monk
ING NEWS offered resolution at the last
meeting of the Georgia Press Association
asking the Georgia editors to withhold
their patronage from the trust The
manager of the Journal is the presidento of
the Georgia Press Association, and the
resolution was adopted without any Elk
preston of dissent. Many other press as
sociations have adopted similar resolu-
tions.
And now the Journal tries to make, it
appear that the proprietor of the Morn
ING News is inconsistent because some
type used on the cover of pamphlet
printed in the job office of the MoRNING
News was purchased from the trust, and
endeavors to create the impression that
the type manufactured by the trust is su-
perior to that manufactured by antitrust
foundries
The type to which the Journal draws
attention was purchased before the anti
trust resolution adopted by the Georgia
Press Association was offered, but even if
it had not been the charge of inconsist-
ency against the proprietor of the MORN
ING News could not be maintained The
type in question was not purchased of
the trust because of its superior quality
or its cheapness, but because it was the
kind wanted, and it could not be obtained
outside of the trust. 1t may be that the
proprietor of the MORNING News will
have TO buy other type of the trust. If
he cannot get Just the kind he needs from
antitrust boundaries he will be forced
to patronize the trust and submit to its
exactions. He will not patronize the
trust unless it becomes absolutely neces-
airy for him to do So
But does it not seem little remarkable
that the Journal should so eagerly seize
upon the opportunity to call attention to
the fact that few dollars worth of trust
type We're used in printing the cover of
the pamphlet in question and failed to
point out that the type in which the con-
tents Of the pamphlet are printed was pur-
chased long before there was any type
trust, and that the new dress of tho
MORNING News, costing thousands of dol
lars, is antitrust type? Does not the
purchase of this now dress from an anti
trust foundry show that the proprietor of
the MORNING News is acting consistently
with his resolution offered at the meeting
of the Georgia Press Association
Having shown that the purchase of the
few dollars worth Of type from the trust
was a necessity, and not an act of incon-
sistency, it would be interesting to know
why the Journal sets itself up as a de-
fender and champion of the trust Was
the article to which we call attention in
spired, or does the Journal really think
the Georgia Press Association made a
mistake in adopting the anti-trust'resolu-
ton and consider it its duty to defend
the trustl We ask this just as good
naturedfy'' as the Journal intimatos that
the MORNING NEWS is inconsistent
Some interesting and spicy stories with
regard to the Lizzie Borden case begin to
find their way into print as the end OF the
now famous trial draws near. Miss Bor-
den and her sister, it will be rcmem
bcr-d, are worth something like $3.50. 900
1t is now common talk AT Fall River that
certain police officers tried to blackmail
Lizzie shortly after her arrest 1t is said
they offered to furnish testimony that
would tear tho ease Of the prosecution
into shreds if she would pay them 10 per
cent. of the value OF hcrown and her sis
ters property, about $4,000 Lizzie de-
clined, saying she would rather die than
pay lone cent of tribute to such villains. -
During the trial the chief evidence
against her was given by the police; and
it was also brought out that they had SUD-
pressed certain facts that were in her
favor. There may be nothing in the story
of attempted blaclImail but the facts
mentioned would appear to give it color.
when taken in connection with the fur
Their fact that suits for perjury are likely
to be brought against certain of the police
Witnesses in case. the verdict is in favor
of Miss Borden. Another story bearing
on the case comes from Baltimore. TO the
effect that wild Young man named Felix
Borden, the adopted son of Lizzie Borden's