The morning times., 1896-12-28


on the Both OF December. all the
friends and patrons Of The Times
Will he heartily welcomed.
The news, composition, art. ana
press rooms, newspaper delivery
and carriers and newsboys' quar-
ters Will remain at their present
location.
American and German Newspapers.
American newspapers are lately recei'-
ing a great deal of attention from foreign
ers and for a number Of reasons. IL the
first place, the ubiquitous Yankee CORE
spondent has been securing first news II
international events right under the less
sensitive olfaotury organ of lis European
brother. In the second place, new
journalism has sprung INTO existence,
particularly in New York city, which
freshly areravatrs the partially lullcd an
tagonisms Of The old wrrlG against our
old Journalism.
After spreading a deal of clean white
paper with adjrctivcS that need the atten-
ton Of the health department. the Cincin-
natl yolkshlatt quic;> down to discus
sion and reroratiou on Tire press Of this
country. and achieves some peculiar con
clusions
1t is Therefore. only necessary for
sufficient number OF American read
ers to dcclar, thcm,al Ives willing to
pay a fair price, and l'fev VIII get
good paper There is no want Of
talent. America has very good
showing Of able writers. 1t seems
strange that the puilic are unwilling
to make tie small sacrifice which
is needed. a dali ~ paper has become
almost as much necessity as daily
bread, and a badpapor causes asmuch
dissatisfaction as bad bread. But
not until the public are willing To
pay will the division between good
and bad newspapers bc made on Euro
pean lines. Until then decent peo-
lle must be content to read papers
which interest equally thc Gchauchee,
the ignorant, and the brutalizcd.
The article had already included the
therefore every American paper is tad.
according to this summary. We VIII not
quarrel with the allegation Tut pass or
to the corolIary that tlfn American peo-
pie are therefore, in the large majority,
also bad. 4 stream can u~e no higher
than its source, and the source Of the
American newspaper is number Of sub
scribers so large that they constitute
practically tie whole rnasting public.
We can Tie attention II the volkshlatt
TO lit Of Perrin correspondence appear
ing in the Chicago Record. 1t is from
the pen Of wulf Won S,hicrbrand, we'll
known writer for the press and for
periodicals. and carries >on.c weight 5f
authority. He says
The German papers have no report
ers in the American sense OF the word
i e., trained ncwSgatEcrers en-
ployed at a fixed salary ana for one
paper exclusively. Instead, they buy
news, bit by bit, from men and women
who are regular huckslcrs of news,
who sell the same item" TO a score
OF papers at the same time, or who
are in their private capacity. perhaps,
shopkeepers students, chance auditors
or sight-seers, eye-witncsses, to some
event The unhappy results thus
brought about by these penny-'i-linerS
may be imagined. The fact accounts
for the unreabiiity, in the matter OF
news, Of even the best and most eX-
elusive German papers, 50 that nearly
every item OF Importance either is
proved baseless after day or two, or
else has to be modified time ard again.
But the German papers, for all that,
seem welded to this unfortunate sys-
TEN, and INSCRIPTIONS men, like those
police spies pretending to be reporters,
understand how to manipulate and TO
banbooAe those papers to their
hearts content.
Another great dra wbacE, not only to
the newsiness and the reliability Of
the German papers, but also to the
journalistic profession, is the fact
that officaldom here, from top to
bottom, looks upon the press with dis
favor, refuses point blank to answer
questions as to news, or answers them
purposely in a misleading way, and
looks askance at publicity. 1t was
Caprivi who, in the Reichstag, char
acterized newspaper men as "men
who had missed their vocation in
life" 1t was Bismarck, and the whole
school of public men in Germany who
have taken their cue from him, who al
ways discouraged and badgered the
Journalistic profession in Germany,
and who put hundreds of them In jail