The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-02
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

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EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.
The stockholders of the indianapolis News
got at cross purposes with regard to the policy
OF the paper and went into court TO settle
their differences The court put the property
IN the hands of a receiver and ordered him 20
sell 1t for the benefit of the creditors. This
was done and the paper brought $4,000 under
the hammer. This affords some idea OF ;he
value of really valuable newspaper plant
Victoria Visitor.
Does any one know OF party organ in all
the country which would have sold for
quarter of the amount? The transaction here
Is worth the consideration OF every newspaper
proprietor in the country. The independent
frcm which the readers can form their own
political creed, The man who wants the news
nays for 1t, and the papers obligation goes
no further than to give Il to him truthfully.
There the transaction ends. And II the news
paper performs Its part of the contract us 1t
should do. 1t becomes popular with the intelli-
gent people aud thereby becomes valuable.
The newspaper whose purpose IN lie Is to
teach" politics generally gets to the pump
kin for subscription stage, because in the long
Jun 1t Will have taught contrary TO the de-
l/tiWs Of every man In the ucighborhood. This
EsIli not have been its fault, perhaps, but the
result of each man. as IN said long run each
! News. " "
II Is amusing 10 note the efforts OF the
News to popularize its own position of al
( lcked Independence, The truth about the
/ Indianapolis paper is, that 1t is an 'inde-
! pendent" very much on the order of its Gal
| weston namesake. and everybody who Wit
| messed the course OF the latter in 1896 viii
| know what that means. Tho indianapolis
| News has never failed TO support the repuo-
| lican ticket, Just as the Galveston News has
never failed 20 fight the democratic party and
Texas democratic administrations. The price
poid for the indianapolis paper is not such a
remarkable one. and yet he fact that oppos-
Ing factions among its stockholders were the
bidders may have had a great deal 10 do
with 1t. But az to so-caled party organs.
Az u matter Of fact the greatest and most
| valuable papers today in America are strict
party papers. end that Is what tho News
means by party organs" BEGINNING with
tho San Francisco papers the Chronicle and
Examiner, the st, Louis Globe-Democrot ana
Republic the Chicago Tribune and Times
Herald tho Pittsburg Dispatch Baltimore
sun and American. philadelphia Inquirer and
Record New York Journal, sun and Tribune,
Clcy Gland Plaindealer, Boston Globe, Trav-
cher and Transcript and many others are
strict party papers Could you buy either OF
these Tor the price paid for tho indianapolis
parer? Not much. And which are the pros
porous newspapers In tho South? The Rich
Constitution Memphis Commercial Appeal,
the New Orleans Picayuue, Times Democrat
and Stntes. Charleston News and Courer--all
strict and straight party papers. In fact. in
the entire South, outside OF the Galveston
Dallas News, there Is not newspaper OF any
considerable importance which belongs TO the
tribe OF so-cAlled independents" which is
but another name for bushwhacker.
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The Dallas Times Herald Is a strong ndvo-
cate OF factories 1t says:
The extension OF the Texas Trunk railroad
aud of the Terminal railroad to Fort Worth
Will do a good deal for Dallas, but It's pros
perity will depend upon having factories and
Wholesale houses enough 10 do the business
, seeking trade here. Cotton mill No. . and
-four mill No. 2 and wooden mill and straw
factory No. ] Will fix us az a manufacturing
! city aud a competitive market for Texas raw
material.
, Houston and other South Texas cities and
towns all offer Inviting fields for factories OF
a all kinds, Besides cotton. there Is an album
: dance OF woods OF all kinds, and iron and
coal as we'll. in tho country contiguous to
Houston.
Tho Abilene Reporter has been vigorously
hut yainiy agitatng sanitary precautions
against disease. 1t now sees the result OF mu-
neipai proerastination. II states that;
Typhoid fever has set in for the summer
as We feared II would. Six months ago WI
warned the city government that certain prl.
mary laws OF sanitation should he enforced
4 but II has not been hone, and typhoid Is again
on us, There Is no excuse for Western
town having such diseases.
Abilene however. is not the only commu,
= Iity which has taken no practical steps toward
cleaning up. There are others. situated mol
I more than atty miles from the Gulf OF Mexico
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: The Greenyllo Messenger 10 evidently IA
miliar with the willy politician who. like IN.
a poor. we always have with US. 1t gives ex
y preston to the following:
II Is a safe superstition that not all the PEG
Pile OF Smith county are enjoying hy-tim'
even II negro barber Of Tyler was snearl!
' killed few days ago by falling from a chat
il into the gutter while asleep. The politician
OF that county are all wide awake, Wen gam
BILE or they have departed from their time
honorcd methods,
' II may have been ono OF those kissing nie
!, that upset the darky.
. The Tyler Courier says.
: Taxing an Individual without giving hin
q value received is wrong. but the WRONG goe
}, brayely on In this and many other cities
Charming n man q water tax and a light "a
!. and then not permitting him to have the bene
/. NJ OF lights and fre protection Is very wron
indeed,
: Suburban residents OF cities have Just caus
10 complain about taxation. II often occur
a that large per cent OF tho population OF
i cit, receive no benefit from lights. water Q
= street railway service. yet bear their share