Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-25
OUR NEW NEIGHBoR.

"The Daily State" appeared yesterday from the presses of the Evening News. It is a morning newspaper, to smile upon us, it is understood, six days in the week, emitting Mondays. The fir t issue fulfilled some of the promises made for it by its owners--not all. 1t did not contain full Associated, Press dis patches, but curtailed service, sometimes dubbed "pony service.' It is large newspaper to begin with, the first issue containing twelve pages. The type is large, covering much space, and the News office is printing it well. A number of our merchants and other business men of the city have, with their usual liberality, en- couraged the paper by using it's advertising columns.
 In his salutatory he editor of the State takes this high, truthful and honorable position, to which the AGE HERALD says, amen:
 In our pinion Birmingham offers an excel lent field for our labor. We have as much right any other citizen to solicit readers and business patrons, and to disseminate news and to comment upon questions of State or commerce.
 Who will dare dispute this claim3 The right of every man to run newspaper DlIutuBudu lS d5 tIuI} NOuCuSdlco to him under the Constitution of the State as is the right of free speech.
 And further the State remarks:
 To limit the newspaper patronage of such a growing city, or of any city or community, to a single journal would be to place the pub lie interests in the hands of monopoly and to suppress the healthy interchange of opin- ions. The capital invested in this journal has right to employment. The men who labor upon it are entitled to a fair and honest con- petition in the field they have chosen. The views it entertains gre likewise entitled to respectful consideration. In every avoca- tion there is sharp competition. Such com petition is the fife of trade, and unhappy would be the condition of a people who are compelled by combin ations and monopolies to pay tribute to self constituted autocrats. In the great battle of life the Attest will always survive. We propose to prove that the State will be among tn e Attest.
 The AGE- HERALD welcomes this organ of anti-monopoly to the local journalistic field, and rejoices that it announces it's purpose to strike at the grasping greed of monopoists. That's just what the AGE HERALD has been doing for months and years. Men have right to work, and are entitled to a fair field of competition. That 'tin the great battle of life the fttest will survive' is an axiom, and II the State makes it's vaunting true then it will live long and prosper.
 Ia the begin hing our new neighbor touches lightly upon the silver question, but the thunder may be behind the little cloud, to burst upon us at future hour, and take us unawares.
 The closing paragraph is the most reassur- ing of all the sayings of the new paper:
 The State is not in debt. It will move eau tiously. It has abundant capital to assure its life for several years even if there should be no great revival and progress within that time. We propose to survive, and the cold greeting of the Advertiser will not paralyze us.
 Good for Birmingham Good for the State! It has the money-the quintessence of success, a most needful commodity in the establishment of daily morning news- paper. .'Several years" is a long time for Birmingham's enjoyment of two morning newspapers. Let the people rejoice.