Year: 1871




the subject 80 much.


How the Black Republican "rrombone''


Nibblefh at tho Municipal Cheese.


Thou hypocrlte first cast out the beam out of
thine own eve, and then shalt thou see clearly to
cast out the mote out OF thy brothers eye.-Mat-
thew, VIII s.


We heartily dislike and disapprove Of per-
sonal quarrels among newspaper people being
ventilated in public. There is plenty of room
in big and growing city and country like ours
for respectable newspapers to obtain hand
some living without having recourse to per-
sonal abuse of one another. This vituperaton
is not only ridiculous in itself, but is calculated
to impair the usefulness and influence as well
as the Pecuniary gains of every journal which
shall allow itself to be engaged in such profit
less discussions.


But as the black republican Trombone in
this city has made certain broad charges
about the HERALD receiving subsidies from
the city government we propose to show,
while we deny IN toto the 7rombones state
ments about the HERALD, that the Trombone
itself, like sleek black republican rat has
been quietly niboling in corner for the past
three years generous slices from the rich
municipal cheese. The following is an alb
stract from official records


STATEMENT SHOWING THE AMOUNTS PAID THE TRoM-


BONE ASSOCIATION FOR ADVERTISING FOR THE


VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS or THE CITY AND COUNTY


GOVERNMENT DURING THE YEARS 1868, 1860 AND
1870.


During the year 1868. ,s63 AS
During the year 1869. s69...................... 95 90





Total from city government. ent............sl5,7s1 0s


Iolal from county, 1863. 6J................ 1l,2l7 SO


Total from county, 1870. 2,0S5 20


Grand total $40, ,o35 90


Thus it will be seen that while the Tr0m-
bone has been blowing its blasts upon its con-
temporaries for receiving pay from the city
government it has during the past three years
pocketed the pretty little sum Of over twenty
nine thousand dollars from the very sources
itself pronounces venal and corrupt. OF this
twenty-nine thousand dollars the sum of
$S, 760 "a was disputed and disallowed by the
democratic city government, and was obtained
by the Trombone Association by being smug-
gled into the tax levy of lS6S-(see page
2,0l7, volume 3 laws Of that year)-when the
black republican Tronbones political friends
had control Of the State Legislature.
In other words, the sum of nearly
nine thousand dollars was clandestine.y
secured at Albany by the Trombone
Association on bill that the gov
ernment of the city of New York-which
ought to have been and no doubt was properly
posted in regard to the matter-had positively
dsallowed and ignored. Here is honesty
with vengeance Here is straightforward
ness in business transaction that would in
former days have made cracksman or high
wayman blush, but in these degenerate times
only impels its perpetrator to cry 'Mad dog"
or ''Step thief" against its neighbors Lite
rally this is the Trombone seeing the mote in
its brothers eye, needing not the beam in its
own.


Now, so far as Ie HERALD is concerned, it
is we'll known that we have refused this city
advertising more than once, just as we did the
advertising of the list of letters remaining
in the Post Office. We were COM
PEELED to do this in consequence Of the
enormous pressure upon our columns





If the city government, or any other govern
ment, chooses to advertise in the HERALD it
must do so upon the scale we establish for all
other advertisers. Could we be expected to
show more favor to q rich city government
like that under the control of Tammany than
we do the poor chambermaids who fill eur
space with better paying advertisements than
any the city authorities have presented? We
repeat, we do not care for the Corporation
advertising. But, by reason of having the
largest circulation Of any daily newspaper in
the city or country, we claim for the HERALD
right to publish at its own regular rates
advertisements of q public character that
may require extensive dissemination. We
hold that the official advertising organ
Of any government-local, State or
uational-should be that paper which has the
most widely diffused circulation among the
community who may be the most deeply in
terested in any particular advertisement. The
whole swarm Of papers, or weekly handblls,
that publish the city advertising, and which
only have an existence by being fed frsm the
public crib, and not from any merit Of their
own, should be swept away, and the Corpora
tion advertising given to one or two journals
Of commanding circulation and acknowledged
standing. By this means the three or four
hundred thousand dollars now uselessly ex-
pended by the city for advertising would be