JOURNALISM WITHOUT CAPITAL

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 990, 9 July 1883, Page 4

JOURNALISM WITHOUT CAPITAL

[FROM “ PHILADELPHIA TIMES. ” J . The successful public journals of the country hay? been started, as a rule, without money. The Ledger was founded by. three working men, whose capital consisted' of their intelligence and industry, and they thus founded, without capital, * newspaper property that wotrtd be cheap at three millions. The Press was started by Colonel Forney when ,he had no capital, and he made i its grandest success with little financial aid. The Times was founded only eight years ago with a nominal capital, and it has long been paying thrice Government interest on a million. The New York Herald was started without ’ capital Mr Bennett .was} its sole editor, reporter, business m&n, and salesman, and now five millions would not. buy it. The Tribune was started in like manner by Mr Greeley, and he died leaving it worth a million. The Sun was founded by Mr Beach [“ Hudson’s History of Journalism,” says Benjamin H. Day, was the founder of the Sun] without capital, and was made the - most prosperous penny paper in the country, as it is now the most prosperous two-cent journal. The Baltitaore i .Sa« was the creation .of the Philadelphia Ledger men, and its venerable the surviving partner of the' old firm of Swain, Abel and Simmons, is a millionaire outside of his property. Tlf 1 only profitable journal that Washknown Since the war is the Star, an*d* B if was the creation of brain and' muscle—not of money. The Springfield, Mass., Republican, the model provincial daily of the country, as well as the most successful, was built up from an obscure weekly solely by the patient industry and masterly ability of the late Mr Bowles.

It is the misfortune of every traveller in Australia (writes Mr Archibald Forbes in the Sydney Morning Herald) to have forced on his notice the foul expressions and revolting oaths with which Australians of the lower orders habitually disfigure the& conversation. Americans swear ** considerable tall,” but there the lowest American bridles his tongue, when women are within hearing, and gives practical effect to the aphorism, Maxima reverentia debetur pueris.. , The foul-mouthed Australian, it is painfully evident, has neither regard for women nor reverence for children. It seems to me this is the loathsome stain on the colonial escutcheon. In a Townsville hotel it was my misfortune to occupy a bedroom next to the one in which were quartered some cricketers, who had come down from Charters Towers to play a match on the Queen’s Birthday. Their conversation reeked with oaths and obscenity. The bedrooms were separated by partitions, open above for coolness and ventilation, so that the conversation going on in any room was audible to the occupants of the whole range. On the other side of my apartment from the cricketers’ quarters was a roam occupied by a lady and '•hild. This fact I ventured to acquaint the crickete;s with, putting it to their manhood that “ I was sure ,they would be ashamed of their language when they were told it must reach the ears of a lady and her child.” There is not a den in all America, as I believe, where such an appeal.would not have been effective. But it had no weight with the “ gentlemen ” from Charters Towers. Quite the contrary in fact. Not only did they persevere ostentatiously in their foul ta’.k, but they assailed the remonstrant across the partition with a volley of opprobrious epithets. You cannot put a spine into a jelly-fish. It is impossible to teach them manhood, because of this attribute they had no share.

When the mail left, Leland Stanford, the San Francisco railway king, was “sick unto death ” with brain fever.

Three thousand London policemen followed the remains of one of their numthe grave one day recently. The London force now consists of 12,000 men, not counting special officers. The largest man in the British Army is 6ft. 4iq. in height, and weighs twentysix stone;' His name is Lieutenant Sutherland, and he belongs to the 56th Regiment. Hop Bitters does not exhaust and destroy, but restores, cures, and makes new. Look up. —[Advt.] 3 Flies and Bugs,—Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mjce, gophers, jack-rab-bits, cleared otft by “Rough on Rats.” Mospsi :Moss and Co., Sydney, General Agents