"a Great Newspaper."
Under the above caption tnc iew rarn iruyuu, sume imcc wu -v, jjuunaiicu a trmcai review of the growth of The Chicago Daily News, which sets forth so clcarly some of the fundimental principies underlying the development of one of the phenomenal successes of later ycars that it will well repay a reading. To bring some of the Graplnc's figures down to the present flate, supplemental statements are parenthetically added by the present writer. " The newspaper entitled to the distinction of much indebted for its remarkable growth in circuit the largest daily circulation in America is lation to the persistent adherence on the part 1'iie Chicago Daily News. (Since this stateof the other Chicago dailies to the "blankctnent was made it is possible that the growth of sheet " style of journalism. Of all the pcople in :!ic Nfiv York World entitles it to first place.) America the average Chicagoan is most m a hurry ' Graphic to-day devotes a page to sketches of and least inclined to wade through columns oí ¦iccnes in and about its establishment The hisverbiage and stuff. The Daily News is the only tory of this paper is probably without a parallel Chicago daily that has the facihties for giving all in the annals of American journalism. It was the news, and at the same time the good sense to founded December 2Oth, 1875, and was the first present it in concise form The result of such a low-priced daily successfully established in the condition of affairs is that The Daily News prints West. At the end of its first year it had achieved more papers than all the other Chicago dailies a circulation of about 10,000. From that time on combined. its growth has been remarkable. It now prints . " In considenng all the causes which have seven editions daily, comprising both morning entered into and produced so phenomenal a jourand evening issues. lts statement of circulation nalistic growth the most important one unquesfor the yeari884 shows a daily average of 125,178 tionably has been the controlling conviction of its copies unqucstionably the largest daily circulation managers that the " cheap paper " should be cheap on the American continent (The sworn stateonly in price ; that its news should be as fresh and ment for 1887 shows a daily average of 165,376.) complete, its editorial discussion as able, and ts " In politics The Daily News is always indegeneral tone and character as pure and heathfol pendent, never neutral. While its editoral exas its best and highest priced cotemporary. All pression is sometimes vigorous to the degree of this the "cheap paper" may easily be even at its severity, therc is always in its utterances of opinión reduced price. so manifest a purpose to be impartial and fair to "The difference of revenue between the tuoall opposing intcrests, that it rarely loses the concent paper (even more so when the price is one fidence of the reader, howcver much it may fail to cent), and the higher-priced " blanket-sheet," the brin him to at! acceptance of its own view conlatter throws away in useless and unasked for cerning the matter in hand. size, that not only is of no worth to the reader, " As a newspaper proper, The Daily News but is even an annoyance, in that it compels him has carned a reputation for enterprising newsto gleam what is of real news interest from a raass gathering second to none in the United States, of verbiage and worthless amplication. It is the only cheap paper in the West that is a " It is because its managers have been wise member of the Associated Press. It gives its enough to practically recognize these essential readers all the news worth giving and gives it for elements of the best American journalism of totwo cents. (Now it does it for one cent a day.) y day that The Daily News is the best and most " Aside from its own deserving merits as a popular general family newspaper published in complete and cheap newspaper, it is doubtless Chicago or the West." It seems hardly possible that an endorsement of merit could be framed in stronger terms than the foregoing analysis, and yet how much greater ís not the achievement now that such a journal as Tuk Daily News is placed in every man's hands at the reduced price of ONE CENT A DAY. The tru'v maWtUmt ,-iferprise of American journalism can hardly go farthcr. Ccrtain it is that The DAILY News Itads tin van. Tur. Chicago Daii.y News is sold by all newsdealers at One Cent per copy, or it will be mailed, postage paid, for i; ajo per year, or 25 cent1; per montli. The attention of farmers is especially called to the fact tliat this metrnpolitan daily now coats but little more than the old time weekly. The shrewd farmer will now have lus daily marUet repons. Address ( VÍCTOR F. LAWSON, Tiiblisher Tuk Pau y News, Chicago.
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