The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-08

much. Will manifest itself in the press. A
literary man OF the East. who gralaitcd
from the newspaper Office into the editor
ship Of a magazine. spent some days dur
Ing the past year in Chicago and in the
country tributary to this city. II have
become familiar with the Chicago news
papers" he said, as ne started on hts re-
turn. land l am surprised at their good
quality and high tone
1t is much easier tn secure effective CO.
operation among the leading journals here
when any progressive movement, is start
ed than seems to be the case IN New
York. A leader In the organized work to
secure an honest city council during the
last few years tells me that he has al
most always found 1t possible to interest
the conductors OF the chief newspapers In
the enterprise. and that there Is singular
ly little of that spirit of Jealousy whic,
so often crops out when several journals
In one city aim at the same end. Ono ex-
PLANTATION OF this is that the personal ~
iations among the editors OF the various
papers are more friendly than Is art to
be the case They have repeatedly Joined
hands in combined action for their own
interest. as when the price Of the morn
ing iailies was put back from one cent to
two, a couple of years ago.
II IL into such a journalistic community
that there row comes the chief apostle OF
the modern sensational press. Hearst Is
going to publish his paper at all hours
from early morning until late at night on
week days, and, as matter OF course,
on Sunday morning. II IL sure TO have
the scare heads" and red ink with which
New Yorker. have become only too IA
miiar. II must inevitably have the
dreadful supplements. illustrated in coli
or. on Sunday, which constantly arpali
afresh even those who sometimes thini
that they have become accustomed TO
them-for Chicago once suffered for "A
while from an epidemic of this sort. until
the newspaper managers who had sue
cumbed Ia It recovered their mental tone
and reformed.
IRE men who own and run our papers
are full OF specuiat atoms as to the effect OF
the new enterprise upon their own for
tunes WIN such journal AS Hearst Is
sure to make capture the town. Must
all Of the old papers take up again that
yoke Of colored supplements on sundays,
which they once found so intolerable. with
its added expense OF several tens OF thou
sands of dollars a year to any journal
which has a large circulationg VIII the
one-cent rate of the newcomer threaten
the permanence OF the present two-cent
charge by the old papersr These and 9TH
er such questions are what the publishers
are discussing among themselves now
adays
But there Is a far more important prob
lem than the financial aspects OF the mat
ter to those who now own newspaper
property in Chicago. 1t Is as to the effect
OF Hearts new venture upon the tone OF
the present Journals. WIN II demoralixe
,hemg VIII the respectable evening pa
per which now sells by the tens OF thou
sands In the wards inhabited by working
men fnd that its old patrons get more for
n cent--or think that they do-when they
are offered headlines several inches tall
and great splotches OF red paint. instead
OF decent reading matter? WIN the edi-
tors enerally---insensibiy II not OF set
purpose--let down their standards all
around? In short Ia the incursion oil
Hearst going TO injure The press of the
city as a whole, This is the vital aues-
ton.