The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-12-26
the streets Of the city. The cable says
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POWER OF PRESS

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Not What it Used to be, Says Editor.
Of the London Mallory for News.
Capitalization the Danger.
. NEW YORK. Dec. 25.-Aifred Harma-
worth, editor and proprietor Of tho
Daily Mail. who Is a passenger on the
Teutonlc, due in New York Tomorrow.
has contributed to the January number
Of the North American review an ar
ticle on what he calls "The simultan-Sy
,eous newspapers of the Twentieth Cen-
.tury." Z -
u Mr.. Harmsworth e1presEes the
opinion that In spite Of ali. the progrespy
that has been made in the Development
OF the newspapers hitherto. we are ntilIi
merely at the fringe Of Journalistic ds-S
velopmcnt. OF newspaper Illustration
he says: NJ :; =; e 4 "a
AN occasional newspaper lllustrs-s
tion. If 1t can be properly produced, 10 I
no doubt q good thing, but no daily
journal which relies principally upon itsii
Illustrations has been, In any real.
sense an Overwhelming SUCCESS, /"
I Mrs. Harmsworth takes exception To-
the hopelessly clumsy shape of the
ordinary newspaper.
No Impressive Stroke y
with the newspapers OF the whole
civilized world before me-" he uaye,
each week I look in vain for nny9
great and impressive stroke Of ,orisi-i
nality or daring. We still cling to the;
clumsy and awkward shape in which
our newspapers are issued, and tl,a
man who has attempted to manipulate
one Of them on a windy day will best
appreciate the force of my remarks. BY;
the use ofilmproved machinery II would
be possible to Issue the newspaper Of
the future In what ia obviously its pro-
per form-a, small, portable and neatly
irdexed publication" 35s ~
The power OF the press is not what Il
used to be, IS Mr.. Harmwerth's opin-
Ion. This, he says. is especially true OF c
England. where the editorial or leader,
which was formerly read and quoted By
all men Of intelligence is now scarcely
glanced at, The great cry is for; news I
r, War Among Themselves.
Lately, there has begun kind OF In
ternecine warfare between the various
organs of the press. by which they
very largely injure their own posit,oao
and those Of their opponents. An item
OF news published in one paper Is I'M
medlately dlscredlted in another, and
the public naturally enough comes to 5
the. opinion that newspapers are usual
ly inaccurate, and too often dismiss a.
perfectly correct statement as mere
newspaper talk" i's5
Mr.. Harmsworth pays @ high tribute
to the press Of the United States as be-
Ing far in advance Of the press Of his
own country In placing before the pub
lie the news in the most popular way. };5ti
Predicting what the Journals Of the
twentieth century will be, he says: (
Plan Of Capitalization.
II feel certain that the newspaper OF
the twentieth century will be drawn In.
to the vortex of combination and cen-
tralizatlon. In fact, given the man, tho
capital, the organization and the occa-
sion there seems to be no reason why
one or two newspapers may not pres-
emily dominate great sections OF tho
united States or almost the whole Of 2
Great Britain. In other words. where
there are now a multitude OF papers
good. bad and indifferent-there wilt
then be one or two great journlas."
Mr.. Harmsworth is strongly of the
opinion that the newspaper should NOT
be partisan in political sense, but
should endeavor to represent the VIII
of the people. ia