The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-06-18
HELENA N SHEET.

Being ~discredited in the city where
it is published and unable to secure
a subscription list worthy of the name
in the field where it is supposed to be
at home, the Helena Record seeks
to force business to itself by estab-
fishing bureaus" in various towns
and cities of the state, hoping to be
able to deceive and delude the peo-
pie Of those places into the belief
that it is what it purports to be-a
daily newspaper, publishing the latest
news. By giving them an expanse
of paper filled with reprint and falsi-
fed Geographic dispatches, stale
stories cribbed from it's eastern ex-
changes and dated ahead so as to
make them appear as though receiv-
ed trough the regular channels Of the
Associated Press, it fra%udulently
takes the money Of those who may
bite at the bait of q cheap "newspa-
per- and resorts to blackguardism
when exposed, as it has been by The
Gazette and other reputable papers
which are what they pretend to be-
live papers publishing the latest and
freshest news as received by tele-
graph every day.
One Of the latest bureaus which
the Daily Reprint has seen fit. to es.
tablish is in this city and in announc-
ing the fact states that no other
paper has before filed the long felt
want that the people of eastern Mon
tana have felt" and 1t is coming to
be regarded as Indispensable" Es-
tablished last fall and persistently ex-
plotted and forced on the people Of
this city it has az yet not succeeded
in gaining a circulation large enough
to pay for the postage required to
deliver the few copies that find their
way into the city, yet it says it has
become Indispensable" It may be |
indispensable to the Chinese laundry
men because of its size 1t makes ex-
cellent wrapping paper, but as far as
the reading public is concerned very
few know of its existence, except,
perhaps, by name, Notwithstanding it
has been left at homes and business
houses by it's agents who have from
time to time come here. Even the
method pursued at Helena of leaving
copies at vacant houses and having
its agents force copies onto people
in the streets, the same as bill ped
dlers give away advertising matter
for a circus, has not succeeded in
gaining for it an acquaintance, much
less a bona fde subscription list. By
the employment.o of a resident of the
city and sending an occasional item
Of local news it probably hopes to Sc.
cure a following here for it's doubly
pretense, it's so-called mail
edition." which is nothing more than
. reprint of the morning edition with
its array of fake" telegraphic news
and stolen editorials. The Record
knows it has no news service worthy
Of the name and that it depends upon
the evening papers of Butte and Hell.
ena for its "telegraphic" news and
what it does not steal from them it
makes up from eastern exchanges
and dates ahead so as to carry the im-
preston it has a news service the
as the other papers with which
it tries to compete.
The Gazette has repeatedly expos
ed the Records thievery and duplic-
ity and has repeatedly convicted it of
obtaining money under false pretense
by giving people something other
than they believe they are receiving,
but it continues to brass it out and
claim to be a newspaper in every
sense of the word and supplies re-
.ashed news days and days old be-
fore it finds its way into it's thieving
columns. The records of the courts
at Helena are the best testimony inI
support Of The Gazette's charges and
they are open to everybody who cares
investigate. The Record stands
there convicted of fraud and deceit.
it's suit against the Independent it
admitted that it had nc news SER
vice worthy of the name, and made
oath to the admission, and made that
its u of action to force the
to let it share in the
use Of the Associated Press franchise.
The admission made in that COM
plant must be accepted as true, for
Record swore to it and If this is
not considered proof sufficient, for
some people may think that he who
steals will lie, and, if necessary,
swear to it, the list of subscribers to
the Associated Press is easily obtain
able and perusal will fail to show the