The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-09

curing the coming contest. The Unit
: ed Press has no political affiliations
and ill has but one idea as to policy
and that is TO cultivate in the mind,
Of every employee that in all matter
Of opinion. particularly in politics an<
religion. TO judge on the bench Should
rival us in doing justice to one and all
in so far as it is humanity possible II
be judicial
1t is a happy circumstance thai
in Justice to itself and its readers, The
Salt Lake Herald, under its new man.
agemnet, coincident with the perma
nent federation of The United Press
and its old established allies, has avail
ed itself of the earliest practical oppor.
tunitv 70 cut loose from the Chicago
Associated Press and to lend the weigh
of its influence to the movement foI
securing be'1uer news service for Utah
and other Inter mountain states as well
as those of the Pacific coast.
Charles A. Dana, editor of the New
York Sun, VINO is president of The
United Press, in one of his recent lee
lures on The Art of Newspaper MAX
ing" said: 1.-The business of collecting
news, which has always been regard
ed as of prime importance, is a neces-
sity; and it is very costly to collect
and to bring to any point for printing
tomorrow morning the news of the
whole world, from England, from Ger
many, from Russia, from France
from Africa, from South America,
from or to the Pacific, so that it may
be presented to the reader who takes
up the paper tomorrow, and he may
have a panorama of all the events of
the preceding day. What a wonder,
what a marvel it is that here for
few cents you may buy a history of
the entire globe of the day beforei 1t
/ is something THAT is miraculous, really,
when you consider it. All brought
here by electricity, by means of the
telegraph SO that the man who has
knowledge enough to read can tell
what was done in France yesterday,
or in Turkey, or in Persia. That is a
wonderful thing. But the very neces-
sity of bringing all this matter to-
geaher, and the immense expense at
tendant upon it, have led to the for
nation of associations among news
papers and to the organization of agen-
cies. I won't undertake to say now
how much the expense is, because I
do not remember it with absolute GER
tainty, but it is an enormous sum,
say perhaps $4,000 to $4,000 day. And
the system which is most perfectly
organized is the establishment known
as The United Press. 1t supplies the
news of the whole world, so that the
individual editor sitting at his desk
has only to look after the news of
his own locality. When he has got
that he gets from The United Press
the news of all the rest of the world,
and, putting them together his re-
port of the days history OF the globe
is complete. That is ar institution
which has revolutionized the opera
tons of the profession, so that instead
of the struggle to hunt after the news
to appreciate the Importance of events
that people generally do not see, and
to report them SO that you may have
in your journal something that the
others have not got, that struggle is
mainly obviated by this organization
of The United Press
In its account of the practical oper-
atfons of The United Press the New
York Sun says:
''It is with a feeling akin to awe
that one undertakes the task of de-
scribing such an institution. To ap-
preciate this, consider for a moment
that in suite of offices on Broadway,
which, although magnificently fur
nished and equipped, are inf1nitesimal
upon the face of this earth, there are
men who are in as close and speedy |
communication with the antipodes, |
with Africa, with Asia, with Austria
liza, as they are with the postoffice, a
few doors from them. 1t would re-
quire pages TO tell how this organ
ization grew and spread its roots
around the world. It began in a. hum
BILE way, its growth was healthy and
fast, and with increasing prosperity
and success it spread itself in thou
sands of directions. Miles upon miles
Of telegraph wires were leased, con-
les, correspondents were stationed aal
over the world, agreements for the
exchange Of news were made with
news gathering concerns in every
Of Europe and America;
everything. in fact, was done to bring
with the greatest speed to every city
in this country the most important
and most interesting news from every
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