Sunday Washington globe., 1902-04-06

Mr.. Munsey has not only consolidated his
magazines, but he has now Incorporated the
whole outfit and offers stock at 500 per
share. To a man up a tree, or more advan-
tageously situated yet for observation, It |
strongly appears that the great Munsey has
bitten off more than a mouthful in his New
York NesOS and Washington Times pur- !
ehases. While Mr. Muusey claims that he |
cleared the snug sum Of 100000 last year on |
his magazines, we guarantee that the sur
plus this year will be swallowed up in the
daily newspapers he is conducting in New
York and Washington. Mr.. Munsey has
the ambition to be the American Alfred
Hammerswith, but unlike his English pro-
totype Mr.. Munsey has earned the III will
of every news stand proprietor in the couu
try. His demand of so cents per copy and
no returns for NNNSeV's Magazine after the
newsdealers had helped him to establish It,
has incurred their lasting eumity. His
forced consolidation of the /HHiOy MHRSeY
and the Puritan with the parent magazine
was principally due 70 this hostility. In
fact the newsdealers are canped on Mum
sev's trail and they lose no opportunity to
give him the hot end of it,
Mr. Munsey, notwithstanding this ex-
perience with the uewsdealers, signalized
dom by a series of blunders which will
take many dollars TO repair His issuance
of a noon edition of the daily Times and
his determined efforts TO ram it down the
throats Of Washingtonians while a failure
as costly as it was foolish was not the most
serious blunder be committed. Antagoniz-
ing both newsdealers and newsboys by de-
mandiug one and one-half cents per copy
for the morning (week day. Times and
three and One-half cents per copy for the
Sunday edition. was as fatal a bluuder as
the presumption that his two-ceut morning
paper and his Sunday edition of the same
could compete with the old established
Post, one of the best morning dailies in the
United States. The Post WHOLESALERS the
weekday edition at one and oue-half cents
| per copy to new dealers and newsboys and
/ its Sunday issue at three cents per copy,
/ thus giving both newsdealers and news
/ boys a generous margin to push its sales.
II is unnecessary, of course, to assert the
superiority of the daily Post at three cents
per copy to the public, OF its Sunday incOm-
parable issue at FIVE cents per copy. Both
assertions are self-evident Hence Mum
sey's nerve in demanding from news
dealers and newsboys one-half cent per
copy for his Sunday issue more than the
Posi- WHOLESALERS for strikes us as a bid for
the free advertising we are now giving the
absurd proposition or demand. And the idea
that newsbOys and newsdealers will sell
his morning week day. edition at half
cent per copy margin while one and one
half cents per copy margin is made on the
POSI- is another manifestation Of that in
sane nerve which exhibited itself in the
payment of over two hundred thousand
dollars to Mr.. Stilson Hutchins for the
Times plant.
We admire this Muusey nerve so much
that we cannot resist advertising il gratis in
this write up especially since the Sunday
edition Of the Times has become a reprint
of articles with two or three weeks growth
of beard. Last Sunday for instance the
SUNDAY GLOBE had an article credited to
the Manila .AmericaR giving the details
of the torture to death of an American
soldier named Edward Richter This ar
ticle, BY the way, was just two weeks old,
as in the makeup it was forced out Of the
previous issue of the GLOBE and appeared
last Sunday two weeks old in our Office as a
clipped article duly credited. In the Times
of Sunday last this article occupies the
place of honor on its FIRST page as TELE-
GRAPHIC DIsPATcHl Monday last we called
the attention Of a Times young man to this
astounding Munsey (scissors) enterprise
and he smiled triumphaurlyl
Now we wish Mr. Munsey well and we
will prove IT, too, by the advice which
experience in this city enables us to give
him in the conduct of a newspaper-NOT a
magazine IL is this, Mr.. Munsey Dis
continue your morning weekday edition
and concentrate all your forces, energy and
money in the evening one cent Times and
you will make a fortune. The Star is
cursed and damned and-BoUGHT Just the
same Il is the best hated newspaper in
Washington and thousands of its readers
would gladly see it get a set back and en-
courage your imeS if you make il what 1t
should be, and what il can easily be made
with the money and talent you command.
/ You can no more compete in the morning
field with the Washington Post than you
can sell the Sunday Times for 81 cents per
copy when the Post can be purchased for
three cents and the SUNDAY GLOBE for ~
cents per copy. The newsboys will not
handle the Sunday or morning Times and
the public will not purchase such inferior
publications at price for which they can
obtain the Sunday Posi- and the New York
week day morning newspapers.
In the afternoon or evening field the
AfWcS al one cent per copy can IN snort
while, make the Star observe the law Of
common honesty. That sheet is now guilty
of the despicable conduct Of compelling the
poor little newsboys to support its circnla-
ton with the pennies they earn so hard as
pro6t II is the only newspaper in Wash
ington and one Of the few in the United
States, which refuses TO take back the un-
sold copies in the hands of newsboys.
Hence the distressing spectacle Witnessed
on the Avenue and principal streets late of
evenings Of little tots of newsboys crying
with bundles Of unsold Stars under their
little arms, which this infamous monopoly
refuses 10 redeem.
If the Times will enter in real down
earnest the evening field against the heart
less management Of such (newsboy) rob
bing sheet it will succeed financially and
compel the Star to observe, as stated, the
law of common honesty. The satisfaction
Of having performed such a meritouous
service as saving the little newsboys their
few pennies profit and compelling tine Star
70 disgorge this stolen money for unsold