The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-01-08
A CATHOLIC DAILY.

This week we received the mi
tial number of "The Sunday
Estate, = a new Catholic weekly
published IN Chicago by the Nun
clio Publishing Company.
According to the editorial fore
word, S'The Sunday Estate is "a
part and forerunner Of The Daily
Estate, the Catholic daily paper
to begin publication in Chicago
during the coming year. And
it arrives upon the stage Of the
world in advance Of the daily in
order that it may smooth the way
for that daily, accustom the Cath
Ole reading public to the idea Of
Catholic daily newspaper in ac-
tual existence by means Of its own
presence as a herald, win friends
for the daily that those may well
come the latter from the first, and
at the same time give that daily
-. the needed time for achieving
pleasing and successful appear
ance. =
" We await with interest the out
come Of this new venture. It is
the first evidence we have that
the way is being paved for a
Catholic daily paper in English in
the not distant future.
A couple of years ago an at
Tempt was made III Buffalo to or
ganize and finance@a company for
the publication Of Catholic
daily in English, but nothing
came Of it.
Some time ago an effort was
made by DR.. Flick of Philadelphia
to give definite form to a project
for the establishment Of Catho-
lie daily newspaper III English.
He organized ''The Morning Star
Publishing Company, with a
capitalization Of 100000, and
offered shares inlhe company at
the par value of 800 per share,
to be paid when the entire capital
is subscribed. No dividends are
to be expected during the first few
years Of the enterprise.
Dir. Flick has made an inyesti-
cation into the cost of a ten-page
daily paper with an average circu-
lation Of 100000 copies and finds
that the project. is entirely feast
bic. He makes a,distinction, rath-
er far-fetched, we think, between
the proposed daily and the Cath
olic weekly newspaper now exist
ing.
"a daily newspaper as an ex-
emplar of Catholic life, or a Cath
olic daily newspaper, as one might
call it." he says, would be alto
gether a different thing from a
Catholic weekly paper. 1t would
not be religious paper III any
sense; it would not be an official
organ of the Church 1T would
merely give Catholics the daily
news in the way in which they
ought to get it, and for the rest
make a feature of things which
would be OF especial interest to
Catholics. 1t would present to
the world a picture Of Catholic
life and the Catholic point of view
on subjects for the time being be-
fore the public mind 7
During late years there has
been considerable discussion In re-
gard to the necessity and value Of
a Catholic daily newspaper in
glish and the possibility Of Or.
ganlzing it on a sound financial
basis. At present there seems to.
be no great demand for such a
paper, from any one who is IN
touch with the Catholic neWspa-
per situation IN America. As
long as Catholic weeklies are so
poorly patronized as the majority
of them are, there is very little
need for a Catholic daily. Only.
a few idealists think it possible.
Such paper might have a limited
circl1fation in the larger cities OF
the United States where Catholics
are numerous and fully alive to
their responsibilities in this regard
and where there is considerable
Catholic population within a radl-
US OF, say, one hundred miles OF
the seat of publication but such
"a paper would not make an APP
peal to Catholics who live a thou
sand miles or more away. By
the time it reached them the news
would be old.
The whole problem Of q Catho-
lie daily resolves itself into a ques
tion of support. Is there such a
demand for Catholic daily from
Catholic people that, once it is es-
tablished, It's future will be Sc
cureg Judging from the precari-
Gus existence Of TOO large q num-
Der of Catholics weekly neWspa-
pers, we are inclined to admonlsh
those who are behind the present
movement to hasten slowly, very