Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-03-12

Spring is upon us and the summer
months will soon be here when Duran.
go enjoys her greatest prosperity. and
this reminds us that the present war.
fare between Dave Day in the
Durango Democrat and the labor
unions is becoming tiresome to
the people generally. The Herald has
refrained from taking a hand in the
hight one way or the other-has even
denied the union the privilege of reply.
ing to the sereeds in the Democrat
elther through the columns of this pa
per or permitted the officers to have
even a circular printed in the lob of.
nee Tor the reason that we did not de.
sire to have it appear that The Herald
management was in any manner abet-
ing the boycott against the Democrat.
we nave turned away business-profit-
able business, in order to carry out
this policy. when in fact it is supposed
a job printing establishment is omen
for legitimate business. 1t was our
hope and belief that the difficulties
would soon be amicably arranged be.
tween the contending parties, and it
would be better to keep down as much
rancor as possible. Again, 1t is well
known That for good many years no
love has been lost between The Her
aid and Democrat management-that
the respective papers cared little for
the fate of the other. and personally
speaking, this feeling undoubtedly
holds good at the present time At
the beginning of the scrap we offered
to try and get the parties together and
adjust matters so that peace and har-
mony would prevail among the citi-
Eens. realizing what a long-drawn out
fight between the contending parties
meant. The offer was made to the
union and also to one of the employees
of the Democrat who came from the
east to accept position early in Jan
uary, and who will remember the con
versation in The Herald office when
he came for advice 1t is also known
that The Herald criticised the action
OF the Carpenters union in declaring
a boycott on the Famous, and we still
believe the union made a mistalie-in
fact know it, because no such action
should be taken against any one until
every other means fails to accomplish
the desired end, and we believe those
concerned realize that a mistake was
made and that no such mistake will be
made in the future. On the same prin-
ciple, The Herald objected to the boy
colt placed on the Democrat although
this office was not on speaking terms
with the management. We feel that
boycotts are un-American and while
we are willing to fight for newspaper
supremacy we were not willing to gain
advantage through the boycotting OF
an opposition newspaper. We believed
that after short time everything
would be amicably arranged but in
stead matters have grown from bad to
worse and we believe the time has
come for the warfare to cease. In the
first place we desire to state that we
are in accord with many of the
principles advanced by the Democrat,
but at the same time Mr.. Day has car
ried his fight out of reason and bounds,
and as a result there is nothing but
friction, and there is no likelihood of
the parties getting together as they
should. Mr.. Days fight has resulted
in the publication of what is known as
the Durango Trades Journal, made
necessary as the union states, because
of no other avenue of stating their
side of the case, adding another publi-
cation to field already burdened with
publications, and if continued, will be
a drain and hardship upon merchants
who feel called upon to patsonize it.
Not only this. the newspaper field has
been cut to pieces and people are be-
coming disgusted witr newspapers gen
orally, and The Herald for one believes
it is time something was being done to