The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-01-03
NOTE AMI, C,OaiMENT.


ing regularly In the colonies.
NOTE AND COMMENT.
AZ will bo seen from an interview with MIR.
Eorie. one Of the trustees he asserts aite er
his years experience that the Record never
ssrncd anything ke the sums sasy b Sg
AZ Mr. Earle also says. that the Record !
now earning more than ever before. Tor J.
Su. az tbe~e n earninsa have not PRINTED pay
ments TO creditors, actual earnings In the past
must have been small indeed. $50,
cnt ns srss 70 cover tho Rs es Of modern
news II can not earn money. Either Its read.
ers fail to get all the news from i.cent
which is receipt tot Of cent per copy will not
Justify. An EFFORT is constantly made under
these conditions to make the advertiser pay
S tSs resde r. But the American
Advertiser knows his btsiness-none better
lie knows that the quality Of I. circulation =
improve the quality OF tho readers news ~
paying more than the quality OF the publicity.
tntet on u 1-cent circulation, is worth to him.
In the end and the long run there Ia no es-
cppe from the fundamental business PROPOSE
titu that any article sold at less than what It
cost to mako II must innlot n loss some
where and can not bring profit and II costs
more than cent a copy to make complete
newspaper. containing the news OF n city, a
STATE the Union and the orld.-Phlladclphia
forcible suggestive opportunity is afforded
BY the nbove statement for pointing a few
ton Dallas News. and other similar journals
OF safe. fair and even-balanced lines The
average reader. OF a newspaper which he buys
for cent Will wonder how the paper holds
W. There are ten or even sixteen pages which
nc will receive for q penny. How do thay get
II out he asks, all that white paper and type
den is light on the reader, In such a case. for
n doesn't miss penny. But there is bur-
eii--aii that paper. setting Of type mailing
cost and varied expense In many dozens OF
directions Who bears the burden? II not the
man who. buys the paper. It must be tho
paarcr's other only source of revenue. the man
business equilibrium It is not business In
any view Hence the advertiser. who Is a
man OF business. declines to make up losses
on the subscription price and the street selling
Price by paying an unhealthy premium for
advertising space. Tho man who pays for the
nauer Tor u, the news n II and the other man
VINO pays for advertising space are more satls-
hcc when they know that each is contributing
e the revenue OF the paper and that one OF
.n aai Is no. gohged Tor the papers chief sup
port and that meantime the paper with its
exreilencies as a news and advertising me-
dun Is cmlnently likely upon safe and even
balanced business policy TO continue uninter-
rLrtedly its good services to the community I'm
which 1t Is pubished.---Gelveston News
What the News says Is sound sense. And
10 apply the suggestion bit further. Is 1t not
probable that Texas people have been .'won-
deribg' how 20 great paper as the Galveston
News could afford to go on the "cut rate
counter" VIII they not think that the News
has been giving the Cuisines equilibrium
spoken OF considerable OF wrench? AS for
! The Post It has not cut It's rates. 1t thinks il
Is furnishing n newspaper well worth the
price asked. and returns show that the read
Ing public agree with IT,
! ~
In an interview few days since Mr.. Bryan
SAID.
so far as 7 have observed. and have
SPOKE on tts question but two or three
investigation. one OF study and reflection.
l dent believe that the great bulk Of the
the other Tho question has never really
come before the people MS an issue. and /
| don't think they are ready yet to give any
| verdict upon it,
/ That is an accurate measurement OF the sit
uation. The people are Just beginning to
think seriously about this matter, and. al
though the expansiopists claim the earth In
the matter of public sentiment there has
really been no authoritative or representative
expression on tho subject. Expansion has not
yet become n party measure, further than
the republican administration Mt WASHINGTON
can make 1t such. and the president Is being
antngonized by some OF the most prominent
\ men in his party. The Post believes that the
democratic party will eventually take position
4 against expansion. as understood In its broad
est sense. and which Is but another name for
| imperialism. And The Post believes further
thai the party will be sustained in its posi-
] ton by n majority OF the people of the United
I States. after they come to understand the
real merits of the question.
~
| Tho American Federation OF Labor numbers
! nearly l,OO0,000 members, aud these member.
| are. with few exceptions. all voters, II COM
prises far the largest fraction of the Ameri-
bounds OF one compact organization. That st
vast body of voters should now speak
through. their chosen representatives with
practical unanimlty against this new. far.
reaching and dangerous policy Il n fact
calculated to give pause to those imperiais
politicians who are guiding their course b,
what they guess to be the popular sent iment
springfield tMass,) Republican. Ind.
4 Every laboring man in this country Is. OF
ought TO be, opposed to this expansion ans
wholesale coonixing scheme of the repub
lican administration. They know, or ougb
TO know. that while 1t will further enrich thu
trusts and combines by giving them new
fields to plumber. 1t bodies no good to ths
laboring classes OF this country. But Will
tho laboring people vote MS they feel? Thai
is the question. VIII they permit themseve.
again to be osjoled aud frightened and bull
dosed MS they were In 1896?
~
The Houston Post thinks that Baiiey's an
tipathy to Wheeler's seat In congress is OF
constitutional grounds. True, It ia contrar,
10 Bailey's constitution to suffer ANYTHING 4,
live that does not worship he craven imap,
that he has SGT up IN tia Baiey pedestal
Wheeler IL not n worshippcr OF the Tsxa,
termagant and that is what Ii the matter
with Jtseph--San Antonio Light
The Post Ia a bit curious to know what 4
is that General Wheeler Is 'worshipninr'
that causes him to be In such favor with thu
Light and other sheets OF that ilk.
4 POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.