Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-10-28
.sCAB" JOURNALIsM.


newspaper published at the county
seat, has Of late been engaged in full
filling the mission for which it was
evidently started. In some columns
OF insufferable rot over a fictitious
telephone line between it and the
Virginia Evening Report. it emits a
quantity OF dirty slime about the
extort1onate charges made by the two
old established newspapers at that
place. .a.... -E
The Virginia Report is a bright and
spicy little journal and evidently ed
tied by q brainy man, who, while he
has real or fancied grievance against
the Nevada Press Association, and in
dulges in some biting sarcasms
against the members thereof, carries
the union label at the head of his col
ums, and as supporter of high wages
and compensation for labor, we won
der how he will take this latest
effusion of the misfit editor Of the Ar
gonaut.
Now, we do not deny the right of
any person to start a newspaper
where he thinks the conditions will
warrant such move 1--WE did it our
selves), but in the case of the Argon-
aut it was plainly occasioned by pri-
vate spite, and can claim no recogni-
ton from any journal which does not
desire to be placed on level with it
by contenancing such dirty and con-
temptible methods. II the facts of
the case are as stated in the Argon-
aut, the Tidings is starred with the
same stick" and is entitled to no
more consideration than it's daily
twin. We hold that the matter of
charging for space in a news paper or
the compensation for job work is not
to be estimated by the labor involved
or the ink and paper consumed in do
ing it. A newspaper must make a
rate which will be uniform 80 far as is
possible to enable it to pay decent
wages. There is proably not a news
paper in the United States. and GER
tainly none in Nevada, which can ex-
ist ON it's subscriptions alone. In Or
der to make up the deficiency. the
shortage must be made up in the way
Of advel tislng, etc. When this means
of making it self sustaining are taken
from it by "scab" labor it must
cease to exist. If the writer was a
mem Der OF the Board OF County Com
missioners, neither the Tidings nor
Argonaut would ever get one cents
worth OF the county printing-no,
not even if they would do it for moth
ing. We hold that the miserable pit
lance OF $50 per month is insignif-
cunt as compared with the power
welded for the good OF the county,
by the publication Of the prospects,
advantages and general progress of
the work Of opening up anu develop.
ing the county, and instead of Great
ing a competition for such beggarly
sum they should be subsidized to en-
able them to make the most of the
materials at hand. A newspaper is
an unerring index Of the character Of
people among whom it is published,
and we take it that the people of Elko
will not take kindly to being judged
by the standard of the slush ap.
pearlng in the columns OF the Argcn.
aut.
Cheap labor invariably implies
cheap men, proposition which the
Argonaut dare not dispute, and as a
supporter OF cheap methods it places
itself in the ranks of the enemies Of a
fair compensation for services rem
dered. Doubtless the editor judges
the value of the labor of others by his
own worth, in which case we can find
no fault with his prices, they are
probably all he is worth.
We regret the necessity which makes
this article necessary, but we believe
the standard Of clean journalism