Morning journal and courier., 1893-07-19
SOME OLD NEWSPAPERS.

SOME OLD NEWSPAPERS.
 in New Haven in Is1o-l
 Some Extracts from the Connecticut
 Herald Which Throw Light on the
 Politics of That Time-NOtable Diff
 ferences in the Makeup Between
 That Time and Modern Journals.
 III.
 Journalism in New Haven in the early part of this century presents itself to our view in strikingly different manner from that of to-day. There has been wonderful l development and progress in this line as l others, keeping steady pace with the gro wth | and prosperity of the commonwealth. It | makes most interesting research to look over the stained and time worn journals of two generations ago. In the year say 1910 New Haven was nothing but what we would term to-day 8 country borough. Its population Is given as 6, ,967 souls. Yet two newspapers were supported in this population-the CONNECTICUT HERALD and the Connecticut Journal-both weeklies. The Journal was at this time in the forty fourth year of continuous and remarkably successful existence, while the HERALD was only publishing its seventh volume. l Very little attention seemed to be paid to l local news, and hardly any space was de- voted to minor casualties and disas- ! tera. Political reports and foreign news occupied the principal columns in the pa pers. For instance, six and half columns of the issue of the CONNECTICUT HERALD for January 9, 1910, is devoted to "Ex- tracts from MT. Coleman's Review of the | Correspondence Between Our Government 1 and Mr. Jacksop," who was the British ambassador here st that time. The general I tenor of the article seems to be hostility to the administration. The relations bet E cen our country and Great Britain were very 1 strained at the time, apd the greatest stress Is laid upon every detail of the proceedings.
 The wars which were stirring Europe so ct
 this time seemed to be making great deal
 of trouble for the administration in this country. Jefferson was president, aud
 partizanship ran high.
 Following these columns was a short item from the New York Herald headed
 "The Hand of Napoleon Once More Exhib-
 ited." It is as follows: "The partisans
 of the administration are confounded with
 nothing as much as the circumstances
 lately brought to light by means of Lon
 don paper. Let 1t never be forgotten that
 the licensed press of Bonaparte at Paris
 proclaimed to the French nation early in
 November, in the same week that it took
 place, that MIR. JACKSON WAS DISMISSED
 BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT.
 | Following this item was another headed
 "Mr. Jackson Dismissed and Our Fate
 Decided in France" It throws consider
 able more light on the international rela tions of the time. It reads as follows: ''I
 am so clrcumstspced that 1 had not
 knowledge yesterday of the article, ex- traoted from late French periodic al
 work, in time to make single remark upon the very extraordinary fact it contained
 But 1t is impossible to let it pass without , observation.
 ''This article ssems to be part of an sd- dress to the French nation on the subjsoi of their foreign affairs and written by one of Bonapsrte's senators. After informing them in style of triumph that the peace . with Russia Is but the happy prelude oi that which is about to unite all the lag. with that of France against ths . flag of England; that Sweden fl
 about to treat with Denmark and Prussia s, | and obtain from France oblivion for tn,
 past, the writer comes to the United Ssate , t-And what does he condescend to gay O. usa What information does he give thspeo I pie of France concerning us9 You shsl , hear fellow citizens. He tells them tha . the United States are fast approaching tn
 above coalition with northern powers, snt
 that as first evidence and guarantee o l our dispositions and inventions, we ar
 not backward in showing our resentmen h against England, and he congratulate
 them that our ambassador, John Quirc
 Adams, had already arrived at Copenhagel fn his way to Russia. Here we muet paus y a moment to remind the reader that " n long ago declared our opinio that Jefferson's precipitate, mysteriou
 and unconstitutional appointment of MI f Short to Russia, was for no other purpos l. than to negotiate an alliancs with ths r power and France against England. Tn - baueful mission of the apostate Adams ha 10 no other object in view. To return to tn 3, article under consideration, 1t procedes i le these striking and never to- bs-forgotte l words: The Americans do more-THE
 HAVE REJECTED THE ENGLISH MINISTER, NH 's JACKSON They have indeed rejected hin 0 They had almost rejected him then whe Ie the article was written; probably about th # first of November, for 1t was extracte
 from a London psper of the 10th, frol le which 1t is taken. Yes, Americans, it WE T. known, 1t was not conjectured, it was nc st predicted, 1t was known and COT g. not that Mr. Jackson would t, (they could have told that long bsfore) bu :" that MT. Jackson actually was dismisse k early in November; so he was. He ws le dismissed at Washington on November { IT ! and 1t was known in France, more tha l. 5000 miles distant, the same day, an P" actually stated to the French nation. I d the same manner the embargo was know d at Paris and stated in their public coffe IS l rooms before 1t was known at New Yorl D. And after all this there are people, an le l honest people, too, too moonstruck as | 8, believe that Napoleon had no hand in tn ?" thing Let these good people dream ou, ar | they can, in blind confidence in their leaG
 CTS. l am much mistaken if the time
 not at hand when they will start up frol
 this lethargy az If struck by the deadl
 fsngs of rattlesnake. May not tn
 stroke that awakens them to fife only ope .e to be closed at once and forever on a
 they hold desrl
 l. This seems now almost 8 prophet ;, statement when one notes the breakin l. out of the war of 1872, two years later. ie A notable difference between the new of papers of 1910 and those of to-day was tt
 manner of heading. The big display head
 of the modern newspapers draw the alter 1' tion to the leading features of the artie le which follows. In the times of which VI 10 write the heading of an article resemble more the title of book. In the hesdin '' of smaller items, however, Is found tt G. crysalis which has grown into the trip
 heads of to-day. In the article heade ,e "The Hand of Napoleon Once More E. It hibited," the heading is set in italics an
 is run in with the rest of the paragraph. G. The editorial department of paper le this period did not seem to be of any in X portsnce. Any sort of editorial comme1 s seems to have been rare.