Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-30
DEFENDS BIG NEWSPAPERS.
General Taylor Says Day of the
Small Sheets Has Forever
Gone BY.

LOUISVILLE, Ky, Jan. 29.-General
Charles H.. Taylor, publisher Of the Boe-
ton Globe, was the principal speaker at
the banquet tonight of the louisville Board
Of Trade. He said:
Some people complain that our news
papers are too large. This objection is
that il is SO unusual for a customer to
make a fuss because he is getting too
much for his money.
of fare in a hotel. There is a table of con-
tents which shows the reader that which he
a hotel, pick up the bill OF fare, begin with
the first item and eat right down through
and then die of apoplexyi On The contrary;
you select what you wish, and you should
do just the same with a newspaper
The expanded and expanding newspaper
aims to meet the wants of all classes; And
this is what a small newspaper could not
do. Ii would have no room for the intelli-
gent presentation of any subject, 1t could
announce that the president of the United
States had sent a message 70 congress,
but from lack of space 1t would be unable
to tell what he said.
Truly the small. paper would be q power
full arouser of public curiosity, but, believe
me, 1T would satisfy no one, least of all
the busy man. The busy man is just the
man for the big newspaper. Most of the
busy men of my acquaintance go through
two and three and -four newspapers every
day. They know how to dispatch their
reading as they know how to dispatch all
their affairs. .
The small paper certainly would not
meet the requirements OF the home. There
the spirit of our American democracy has
emancipated the children as well as the
women, until now every member OF the
family stands up for his or her rights as a
In the good old days, when our fathers
really were masters OF their own houses Iaes
and IL was so forbidding to youth and TO
women that 1t was the last thing that the
! think of looking at. That narrow spirit
| made 1t possible for the newspaper TO be
| small, but who would revive those, condi-
'i9 How about the advertiser. fate daily
newspaper is the best medium through
which advertisers can reach their patrons.
If you print from twenty to 200 columns
OF advertising in a single issue, now can
| you do It in a small n~ewspapeLa me s
| whole proposition Is so absurd mat II Us
astonishing that inteligept, people persist
i'm making it a topic OF public. discussion.
A small newspaper was s~fasfpi of tMhree
seconds from this country. In other WORDS,
this Is no longer a four-psge world ana a
four-page civilization and ,thlnk we are
all glad of II.
The sneaker then showed that they
could never have the ideal newspaper, be-
cause Journalists. like clergyman lawyers,
| physicians and bushes men, we're human,
/ with the limitations which tSeontrol
them in all of their work. Tie showed
what a brilliant failure the Rev. MT. Shell
don's attempt to print q religious daily
proved, and demonstrated that Mr.. Shell
don lost a great opportunity to make useful
and helpful suggestions to the press.
He also touched on the charge that daily
papers publish too much crime and scan
dal. In presenting a mirror Of the events
OF a day it was impossible not to Include
such events within decent limitations.
The people themselves we're the real SEN
! 49, 4ko,rb ,tnoopgrFnnu ~ A. All
the first reports Of bank failures, terrible
accidents and fires were usually f~earfully
exaggerated, we're started by the people
themselves and grew in size as they few
from mouth 10 mouth. The intelligent re-
porter got at the facts and the newspaper
came out with the truth and set a thousand
wild rumors at rest.