The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-02-03

day was 227, 200 copies. It's edi-
tors must try to make 1t live
up to that figure. Mr.. Bennett made
also n characteristic salute to his
journalistic neighbors in the shape of
an editorial, over which all the news
paper men in town have been holding
warm arguments, says J. 1. Clarke in
the Springfield Republican. The arti-
Gle began by a mysterious concern in
the profits of the Music halls and va
r1ety houses of the city, whose growth
In numbers had overdivided the pat
rons and whose competition for star
performers had fun up the salaries Of
the IMAM snake and the ''human rub
Der BALI to fancy figures, while the
rewards of French wrigglers and Eng
lish coster-warblers were "out of
sight" Pondering over these things
brought him to think of the newspape
business In New York. The proprie-
tors of some of these papers had low
cred their prices to Catch the crowd,
n at the same time their anxiety to
collect a brilliant staff had enhanced
the wages of editors to such an extent
that profit was out of the question.
Time was, he went on. when manag-
ing editors, night editors, city editors,
and editorial writer's were satisfied
with living wages" Now they want
ed to fix their own wages according
to their W estimate of their abilities.
Furthermore, a new element had been
introduced, namely, the contract sys-
tenn, by which proprietors actually
signed agreements with certain news
paper men. evidently a base thing for
proprietors to do, but clearly in line
with the enormous greed and self-im-
portance ct the writer's and editors
who used to be satisfied with being
sacked" at will. Finally, his advice
to Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Pulitzer. were to
lessen the size of their papers, raise
their selling price and make a little
money.
To anyone acquainted with Mr.. Ben
nett's moods ali this means simply that
he was poking a bit of malicious fun
at his two rivals, who are either losing
money or making very little. 1t
shrewdly hits n point that nobody
who knows New York journalism can
ooubt-namely, that until the World
n Journal raise their prices they
must struggle along with depressing
financial results, but, I take 1t, as we'll,
that Mr.. Bennett has scented the signs
OF some agreement or a feeling after
one between the World and Journal
whereby the price can be advanced to
2 cents. 1t was for their benefit that
the article was written, and the slap
at editors and writers was incidental.
That slap, however, has caused more
talk than the advice. Mr.. Bennett, as
We often do when we jest, betrayed a
sense of hurt at something that has
given him much annoyance. l am an
old Herald man and know very we'll
that men in it's service are apt to be
as fairly treated as elsewhere. I was
always well treated. 1t has it's revo-
~lutions or "shake-ups," as they are
called, and the man doing stately SER
vice today may find himself in a very
inconspicuous place tomorrow. He
may also find himself on the sidewalk.
l am not going to say that the Herald
suffers from these changes or loses by
its loss of particular men, but inse-
curity is the result, and as a D IL to
continuous endeavor Mr.. Bennett re-
CARDS it as a wholesome result. The
Herald has generally carried an eff
cient staff, and in the constructive eff
forts of men like Joseph Pulitzer and
w. r. Hearst their eyes naturally turn
ed to the Herald men. To get a man
who is showing great capcity u Of his
comfortable, promising situation into
a new one means a pretty solid in
crease of remuneration. Hence as the
Herald staff was pillaged prices rose
1t cost the pillagers more and more
t. get good Herald men, and, worst OF
all, it cost Mr.. Bennett more to keer
them. But the solid truth is that the
men were and are worth all they gel
OF have got, except in a few instances
In these intances Brother Pulitzer
made short work of firing" them
Hence the cautious chaps who were
tempted stuck out for contracts to Sc.
cure them for a year or two, and gen.
orally got them. That was business al
around.
If Mr.. Pulitzer bought a "golt
brick" as they are called, he had tt
keep it by him, at so much per week
for the year OF two years, but he go
a host of workers whose names arr
now known throughout the land. i
was when Mr.. Hearst entered the felt
that the real contract warfare began
Samuel S. Chamberlain, a former sec,
rotary of Mr.. Benefits, who is Mr.
Hearst's chief lieutenant, at first fixet
his gaze on the Herald as the paper
to emulate and rival, but he soon found
that the Herald was not his meat
The Herald had gone uptown, was GU
of the race for colossal circulation, ha(
become conservative in expenditure
and was satisfied with its profits. The
World, he saw, was his true objective
Its splurging methods, it's popular ap.
peal and it's huge but mercurial cir.
culation invited him to the attack
Now, one of Joseph Pulitzer's axioms
has always been, "If you lake a gooG
man from your rival You weaken hin
as well as strengthen yourself" II
had told when the World was winnins
the primacy of circulation from the
Herald. Mr.. Chamberlain acted on il
in the wal on the World. 1t was SOM
timo hofora ho could oooouopl;eh ,.rol