The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1907-06-24

news eo,ee ninY the change in
ynnblieatior IL Lba Silver State from
dHily to Z sal weekly Publication
was most IN: .ypsses sioaal. Tho articles
nnblished ERE offended to convey the
snformation 10 the public that the
silver State ha5s spended publication
entirely, forced out Of business BY the
Judgment that was rendered in the
district court against the .compan
owning the paper.
Public information was given TO the
star that the Silver State was to pub
lish semiweekly instead of daily, but
despite this information the news items
published in the paper across the street
were primarily intended to convey a
wrong impression regarding this paper.
It is the same proposition as if in
q case Of two physicians living in a
town; one should change his office loca-
ton or Office hours and the other, in
an endeavor to increase his own prac-
tice would circulate the report that
his brother physician had gone out of
business.
Such an action would be a decided
infringement on the ethics of the medi-
cal profession, just as was the action
of the Star a decided infringement on
the ethics Of journalism.
The new Silver State News is not
complaining because any harm has been
done the paper or may be done by the
erroneous news items that have been
published. The pc ople at home were
not misled by the fake items and it is
some qualification to find that but few
of the State papers have recognized
these false statements. So far we
have found but one, the Reno Evening
Gazette. The attention of the editor
of the Gazette is respectfully CAY to
the fact that the Silver State Till
being published, and the item Akeh
from the Star and published on Satur
day, June %, is substantially erroneous.
Aside from the unprofessionalism OF
the Star in this matter, there other
points we will take time to discuss.
We like an argument; it is born in
us, and we w1ite the following, not at
all in a spirit of re sentiment, but more
in a frame of mind for an amiable
controversy:
The Democratic organ alleged the
following defects to the discredit OF
the Silver State in the last four years:
First, it had no news in it. Let us
turn for a brief mminute back to the
time when the present editor OF tht
Star was editor of the Silver State,
and for the sake of argument grant
that the Star editor 8 description OF
the Silver State as it was in those
days is correct, to wit: That then 1t
was a mighty newspaper, a state
builder, ETC., etc. And let us see what
the mighty paper really was. For our
iside OF this argument we would ina
I'VE We're able to reproduce a picture OF
the Silver State in those days.
The news it contained then could al
most be put into two columns OF TINS
issue, so that it were a fasiacy to state
that the Silver State was a world
power in the past because 1t contained
q vast quantity of news. In fact we
quote a section from an editorial IN
the Silver State of the issue or sep
TENDER 20, 1899:
state as a seven column folio paper.
The proprietor has leased the paper to
Messrs. Windle and Bracket, under
whose management it will herea1ter
De issued. 1t will be reduced IN size
20 a five column folio, since a SIX
months thorough trial has given the
that the field covered by
lhe Silver State will not justify the
puphcatlon of a paper OF the scope
ma magnitude of that which has beea
issued from this Office during that
And In the following issue, Septem-
25, 1899, is an article regarding the
of news:
AS announced Saturday the Silver
state appears today red uced IN SIZE
ma with a change Of man agement. A
'maller paper necessarily implies the
publication OF a 10 IS amount of printed
than this paper has been hand
Now, if a lack of news has been one
u the defects CT the Silver State in
ne past four ye ars, as the Star editor
n~sinuates, then it were still mo re de-
in those days when he says it
yas a world POI er.
S oH ooWH hrouSn the Wof
mes OF the Silver State we find that
nortly after the purchase of the paper
y the Winnemucca Publishing com
any 1t was increased in size to a
ven column folio, taking all the As
ciated Press reports, and printing
act,cally three tirnes the amount of
VS. as before. St i'll MI. Star Editor
vs. IT was defectiv i've because it was
newsless newspaper, and who will
quite the editor of the Star.
Interests served is another