The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-23
TRADE PAPERS ABROAD.
Curious Interests to Whose advancement
Some of Them Are Devoted.

Curious Interests To Whose Advancemen
some of Them Are Devoted.
Far in advance of all other countries
in the growth. influence and perma-
hence of trade papers are the United
states, but in respect to such papers
the American custom is to limit them to
lines of established business. A similar
rule does not seem to prevail abroad,
where newspapers are published under
circumstances which may be said to
have no parallel in the United States.
In England, for instance, there are
three newspapers wholly devoted to the
aundry business and said to circulate
among 10000 steam laundries and pri-
Vate establishments including hotels
and noblemen's laundries throughout
the United Kingdom n colonies"
There are published I'm London what is
known as a contract journal, a watch
makers journal. a firemen's paper,
three matrimonial papers, a paper de
voted to discoveries in the use OF the
microscope, a pawnbrokers' paper, two
papers devoted to the advocacy of
peace the Herald of Peace and the Ar
bitrator, a paper devoted wholly to
trademarks, three papers devoted to
sewing machines and their manufac-
ture. 10 papers devoted to antiquities.
an astronomical paper. a paper devoted
To the interests of cab drivers, and a
paper devoted to the agitation against
the use of tobacco.
In Germany there is a Rhine wine pa-
per, and in Bohemia a paper wholly de-
voted 10 lotteries, and in Hungary a pa
per wholly devoted to agitation for a
more serious observance of Sunday in
Hungarian cities. In France there are
published a newspaper devoted to in
surance i'm French companies, and an
other called the Coal Pit devoted to the
interests OF the coal miners. In HoI-
land there is published a newspaper de-
voted to the interests Of Amsterdam
bondholders. and in Norway a paper de-
voted to the agitation Of the question
or securing more favorable treatment
In foreign custom houses of Norwegian
fish exports.
One explanation of the number Of for
newspapers devoted to isolated in
terests is TO be found in the fact that
some such newspapers are not self
supporting. They are subsidized bv
those whose p%rejudices. caprices or per
sonal interests they serve. Many polit-
lcal newspapers in Europe are in like
manner maintained from funds estah-
1shed for purposes of agitation. Again.
The rate Of advertising in newspaper is,
generally speaking, higher abroad than
Is IN American papers and is certain
" much higher when taken in connec-
ion with the more limited circulation
such Journals. The proportion of ad-
fertisements TO reading matter is larger
n Continental European papers thar i'm :
hose published i'm the United States.
the opportunities of publishers TO
profit under a limited circulation
Ire, OF course, greater. Moreover. the
tandard OF Journalism in Europe, gen /,
rally speaking, is not so nigh as in the :
jhIted states. News is in less demand I
ma local interests secure more atten- !
ION thar those requiring telegraphic Z
communication. The concentration OF 3
interests in European capitals $
makes possible the successful publica-
of trade papers under conditions
'hich do not exist i'm the United States. n