The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-22

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opportunity that is not open to any one of
their fellow citizens. Their report is a
thing of brain and Drawn, and in il is TO
be found nothing but that labor which
responds 10 the primal law of God-'In the
sweat Of thy face shalt thou eat bread
all the DAYS of thy life applause.
1.-The property which you have in your
news, for purposes of immediate pubica-
ton, is simply that property which man
has in his own homestead. 1t is eNclu-
sive? Yes; so Is all ownership. The own
er Of a horse has a monopoly of his use.
That kind of monopoly is of the very es-
sence of property of all kinds, exclusive
in the particular thing which has either
been produced by the labor of the owner
or has been bought by him when produce
ed by the labor of some one else. That
property is always defensible.
you have not only the Associated Press
extending over the United States you
have your limited associations in the CIT
les. If hundred or more newspapers
may not combine in the United States
to gather news for themselves then why
may three or four combine in the city of
Chicago or the city of st. Louis for the
purpose of gathering up more economi-
cally certain matters Of routine news in
those cities? If the Associated Press must
give to whomsoever wishes it, then your
local assoca ton must do the same. And
it goes beyond that-the individual repor-
ter having news, must give it up TO
whomsoeVer demands it, because the ma
ture Of the function is the same, and you
do not alter It's character because you
multiply the number of reporters. (Great
applause) A hundred black rabbits do
not make black horse. Oaughter) And
that ought not to be limited to news. If
the newspaper that sends an expedition
into the heart of Africa, if the newspaper
that undertakes the explora ton of the
Arctic regions, must upon compuls4on,
give the results of its enterprise and It's
energy to whOmsoever Will-then Why
should not the man who explores his own
inner consciousness and discovers ideas
of worth and dignity, why should not he
be compellable to yield that TO whomso-
ever may demand it. Rudyard ktpling
produces the occasional. We may read it
and make il our own; 1t is mine and 1t is
yours so far as il constitutes an addition
to intellectual wealth, but If we
| undertake to make use of il beyond that,
if we undertake 10 make use of 1t by
printing il and selling ii when printed, We
are simply reaping where we have not
sov.n and gathering where We have not
strewn (Applause) The right of the AssO-
ciated Press to the reports that il has
gathered is as high as the right of each
of It's individual reporters to the fruit Of
his own labor. It is as high the right
of every author to the productions of his
| own mind and his own pen; and do not
believe that, however courts may differ
any one of them will ever reach the cor e
| clusiOn that you can be made to serve
those whom you choose not 10 serve; for
if that injunction can he laid upon you as
a body, it can be laid upon every one of
| your individual members.
No., aas.a fgsAv,
| ing, if we include all those who by The
rules of tie association may be fairly con-
sdered its members, something like seven
/ hundred. There arc 2 400 daily newspapers
in the United States II perhaps does not
| become me as a representative Of The sew
| en- hundred to deny the assertion made by
| the fourteen hundred that you have g
monopoly of the news-gathering enter
! prise ard abilities of this country. CAP.
| plause.) But if 1 were on the other side l
| would want to find some other ground On
| which to plant my case. They stand upon
! precisely that footing. They stand upon
the footing that field of enterprise which
is open to every individual in this country,
| whether he owns newspaper or does not,
| a field of enterprise which indeed in the
! cid country is chiefly exploited by a man
! who has not newspaper; they stand upon
the footing that this field which is open
| to enterprise, open to courage, open 20 sa
I gacity, open TO Industry is closed 10 them.
! Well, the courts will never protect the
| sluggard (Applause) Laws are made for
! the diligent, and you viii be protected in
/ the outcome because you are simply as
/ sorting the right to the fruits OF our own
! labor. And there is no higher and no pro-
/ founder principle involved in this contro
vcrsy than that proclaimed m the days Of
old, that the laborer is worthy Of his hire
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