Year: 1874

I
which the HERALD has enjoyed as the conf
dental organ of the President and the Custom
| House will come to an end tomorrow by the
appearance of The Republic. This journal
comes into life under the auspices of certain
brave and public-spiri.ed gentlemen who have
lamented the want of nourishment which has
befallen the administration babes and suck
lings in the way of sound doctrines. This
want the HERALD has supplied since its recent
recognition as the official organ, our terms
being twelve dollars year, ''inyariably in
advance" But the President and the HERALD
are so much alike in independence OF opinion
and in having their own way that there is no
knowing when the entente cordia!e may come
to on end. Consequently we retire from the
field with alacrity and call upon the post
masters, and storekeepers, and internal revenue
inspectors to "rAlly around" the new organ.


Some gloomy people look with apprehen-
sion upon the prospects of new paper and
we hear dreary vaccinations as to the fate OF
Tie Republic. Mr.. Hudson, in his admirable
'History of Journalism" prints the names of
some hundreds of newspapers that have lived
and died and gone to rest in a silent paper
mill. And we confess that, as president of q
savings bank or trust company, we
should prefer some other investment than
newspaper stock or, to be more clear IN
meaning, stock in a new newspaper But all
the same, we believe in new journals. We
| should like to see two hundred daily morning
papers in this metropolis. Think what good
| time public opinion would have undergoing
| the process of education from two hundred
4 teachers In fact, we do not sea in our prog
ress of invention why every large firm, every
dealer in patent medicines, every politician
and opera manager should not have his own
newspaper. 1t is great discipline to man
to be compelled to sit down and collly put his
thoughts into print. Then he can always do
himself justice. Nothing, as all men know, is
more easy than to edit newspaper, Journal
ism being the profession to which every
American is born So that, so far from there
being no room fer The Republic, there is room
for a hundred journals like it.


The HERALD, as our readers well know, is
no longer fighting paper, but journal long
since passed INTO its decadence edited by
Irshmen, who are all either secret members of
the Society of Jesus or under the pay of the
Pope. Speaking of the Pope, we regret to
4 learn that his remittances come very irregu-
larly, and we presume the venerable Pontitf
\ mas too many cares to think always of finan-
4 cial matters. As it is, we take tranquil views
OF the world, and instead Of quarre ling with
our contemporaries we encourage them and
cheer them up. We prefer the fire, the
cushioned chair, our tea and toast and mod
crate, cheerful reading, like the Nation, the
Ereaing Post and the Anatomy of Melan-
choly." We have that tranq utility of mind
which comes from over sixsy-6ve columns OF
advertisements, and which can only find ex-
preston in paper of twenty pages; and
whenever we read q spiteful article about
ourselves our impulse is to send the journal
half dozen columns Of advertisements.
Our obligation to the advertisers interteres, for
somehow they pay their money for the HERALD
and demand our columns. But there is no
harm, however, in alluding to the matter, as
an indication OF how we feel to press breth-
ren and how it is that we give this newcomer
welcoming hand and it cold days come we
promise it seat by the stove.


We might give its editors great deal Of nd
vice, but We afraid it would be like send
ing Goals to Newcastle or writing statement
for Plymouth church. We can sum up all we
have to say in this one maxim:-sLittle chill
dren, love one another Do not call names
DO not say rival editor is q pig. 1t does no
good, and, after all, pig IS a useful animal,
and with reserved qualities in the way of
hams and spareribs that few administration
organs possess. Be courteous. Because q
man is democrat it does not follow that he
is damned. Look alter subscribers and adj
vertisements BE just to all men, especially
the President OF these United States. Remer1-
ber always that he is President, the source of
all wisdom and authority, and praise him.
! Always allude to him as the second or, it may
Le, the third Washington. Support the Gus
tom House. by that way may good
things come. Do not discuss questions
of emigration and the English Church
to the exclusion Of American themes Ii it is
necessary to be Independent abuse General
Butler and Hayemeyer. This is always safe
topic, becauso ii they do not deserve it at the
time they will in little while. DO not take
sides in the Brooklyn scandal. 1t will be like
making a round of visits to hornets nests.
DO not print letters on currency and protec-
ton By following these points closely The
l.ep,ljlic may have its days long in the land,
and in time possess its own editorial sea-
coal fire. and Tea and toast with sixty-fve
/ col,,,nps nf advertisements, In comfort II nd
teach it patience, love and consideration for
! all the world.


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