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Tji-euiuatisiu comes from an excess of uric acid in the blood. This acid
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Never la e:ess, it has continued upon
its old-fashioned, , conservative way,
publishing enormous blanket sheets,
containing verbatim reports of the pro
ceedings of parliament and the political
speeches made by its favorites in mib-
lic life. It is said that every word that
has been uttered in the British parlia
ment lor more man a nunared years
has been published in the London
Times, and that is probably true. The
government has official reporters in
both the house of lords and the house
of commons, and their stenographic ac
counts of proceedings are printed every
morning in a publication similar to
the Congressional Record and called
"Parliamentary Debates." But a limited
edition is printed and the public is
compelled to get its account of parlia
mentary proceedings from the Times."
The times has maintained the best
staff of correspondents in foreign coun
tries of any newspaper in the world,
the most intelligent, experienced and
competent news gatherers and publi
cists, and they have invariably enjoyed
greater advantages for knowing what
is going on than the representatives of
any other paper. The prime ministers
and other. public men of Europe will
send for the correspondent of the
Times when they would refuse to re
ceive the representatives of other pa
pers, and . will give him information
that the local newspaper men cannot
obtain. The public men of England, in
the church, in the cabinet, the parlia
ment and in financial circles, will fur
nish information to the Times in pref
erence to any other paper, and for a
century its editorials have frequently
The sale of the London Times, al
though it does not nass ontirelv nut nf
( the hands of the family which had al
ways owned it, is as great an event in
England as a change in the adminis
tration of the government. The Lon
don Times is and always has besn the
leading newspaper of the world, and,
although the lines upen which it has
been conducted are very conservative
and it has been different in several re
spects from every other paper, none
has ever exercised so powerful an influ
ence in political, social, diplomatic, ec
clesiastical, financial and international
affairs. For that reason it has been
called "The Thunderer." Men have
been made famous by the smiies cf the
Times; men have been ruined because
it has frowned upon them. Its favor
has been courted by soverigns, and a
political party could have been founded
upon its sole support. There are thou
sands of intelligent people in England
who still believe that the editorials in
the Times are written by the prime
minister of Great Britain and other
members of the cabinet, and its money
article is still the most powerful agen
cy in the finances of Europe. The in
tegrity as well as the influence cf the
Times has been seriously impaired dur
ing the last twenty years. It received
a fearful blow when its attacks upon
Parnell, the Irish patriot, were exposed,
and it has never been able to recover
its prestige. Several subsequent inci
dents have shaken public confidence in
its infalibility and ominiscence, but it
has survived experiences which would
have ruined any other paper, and still
is the most important publication in
the world.
The earliest newspaper in London
was called by the quaint title "Newes
Out of Holland" and was first published
May 16, 1619, "The Newes the Present
Week" was started three years later
and was edited by the famous Nathan
iel Butler. In 1696 there were nine
weekly newspapers and reviews in Lon
don; in 1709 there were eighteen, and
in that year the first daily newspaper
ever published was started and called
The Courant. In 1724 there were three
dailies, six weeklies and seven tri-
The Morning Chronicle was started I " . j .
it it i aiia wsiiiom their associates when those gentlemen
14 and was edited by William v. . ., t..,. t... ..-i.5
before the people. That does not hap
pen so often nowadays, as was former
ly the case, but a Times reporter al
ways has precedence still, and when
an Englishman is aggrieved at any
thing he writes a letter to the Times
and expects whatever is wrong to be
corrected. :
The Times has never passed out of
the control of the Walter family. The
original John Walter, who founded the
paper, conducted it for fifty-nine years
and then died, onle of 'the most influen
tial men in Europe, in 1847. The prop
erty was left exclusively to his son of
the same name, who had been associat
ed in the management for many years
and who was a member of paliament.
The second John Walter remained at
the head of the business until 18.S4,
when his son, Arthur F. Walter, inher
ited it and has since been nominally
the editor-in-chief and controling influ
ence, although the financial necessities
of the paper and the necessity of im
proving the plant and introducing mod
ern ideas liave compelled the Walter
family to part with a portion of their
interest. George E. Buckle has been
the editor-in-chief for twenty-seven
years and Moberly Bell has, been the
business manager for about the. same
time. Arthur Walter has a number of
sons, but they have never taken an ac
tive part either in the editorial work
or business management.
It is announced that Arthur Walter
will continue as chairman of the board
of directors of a limited company, j
that he and the other members of his
family retain considerable interest.
According to the dispatches from Lon
don, C. A-rthur Pearson, owner of the
Daily Express, the morning and even
ing Standard and the St. James Ga
zette, has obtained control. Associated
with him is Sir Alexander Henderson,
a liberal-unionist member of parlia
ment and chairman of the board of di
rectors of the Great Central Railway.
Mr. Pearson and Mr. Henderson are
both advocates of a protective tariff
for England, and they have purchased
the Times for the purpose of promot
ing that doctrine. Mr. Pearson is an
intimate personal friend of Joseph
Chamberlain the leader of the protec
tive tariff party in England, who once
called him "the greatest hustler I have
ever seen outside of America." The
Times has been an advocate of fiscal
reform,, as they call it over there, in a
mild way, and has lost a great deal of
its patronage and circulation on that
account, because the classes of people
who have been its most consistent sup
porters are free traders by inheritance.
W. E. Curtis in Chicago Record-Herald.
m 1747 and was edited Dy
Woodfall until 1789. It was the first
paper to report the debates in parlia
ment, and many famous men were con
nected with it as editors and contribu
tors, including Coleridge and Campbell,
the poets; Sheridan, the wit and dra
matist; Canning, the statesman, after-1
ward prime minister. Hazlitt was dra
matic critic of the Chronicle, and
Charles Dickens was for several years
a reporter on the staff.
Of the other London papers now liv
ing, the" Post was started in J.772, and
the initial number of the Times was is
sued on the first of January, 1788, 120
years ago last Wednesday, by John
Walter. It was a continuation of a
daily called the Universal Register.
Since its first number the Times has
been, as I have already said, the lead
ing journal of Europe and the most in
fluential and prominent paper in the
world. Until recent years it has also
been the most progressive; it was the
first paper to be printed by steam. In
November, 1814, it set up a wonderful
press that turned out 1,800 copies an
hour and was inspected by all of the
crowned heads of Europe. A "model of
that press is now displayed in South
Kensington museum. In 1848 the im
provements had been so rapid that the
Times' presses were able to print 8,000
an hour, and if you will lock into the
encyclopedias that were published fifty
years ago or even more recently you
will find descriptions of the press and
composing rooms and business office,
when they were as great objects of in
terest as St. Paul's or Westminster
Abbey.
The circulation of the Times has nev
er been very large. In 1850, according j
to the encyclopedias, it had 2S.000 sub-1
scribers, and from what I heard in Lon
don two years ago it cannot have very
many more than that number now. In
1862 it printed an edition of 70,000 cop
ies, containing an account of the funer
al of the duke of Wellington, which was
the largest edition ever issued by a
newspaper up to that time. In 1S63 it
printed 135,000 copies of an edition
containing a description of the marriage
ceremonies of King Edward VII., then
prince of Wales, and the Princess Alex
andra of Denmark. That was high
water mark for newspaper circulation
in those days. But it was soon af
ter surpassed by the New York Her
ald's edition containing an account of
the battle of Gettysburg.
Before the Parnell exposures the
Times had a circulation of 50,000 or 60,
000, which ran up to 75,000 or 80,000 oh
special 'occasions. But since then its
subscription lists have been growing
smaller and smaller and its earnings
less and less, while the other London
newspapers were coining money and
printing six times as many pa
pers. One reason for this falling off is
the high price of the Times, which has
been maintained at six cents a copy
until today, while rival newspapers
were selling for two cents.
The advertising patronage of the
Times has also been falling off gradu
ally as its circulation has gone down,
and this is explained by advertising ex
perts on the theory that .the merchants
realized that the classes of people who
read the Times are not subject to in
fluence by advertisements. Hence the
"classified ads" were very few in num
ber and it was patronized only by first
class mercantile establishments, book
publishers, real estate agents, brokers,
bankers and other financial operators.
Its revenue became so much reduced
that tne Times nas resoriea to various
outside schemes to increase its circula
tion. It has handled encyclopedias and
atlases, it has published special edi
tions and supplements to attract the
patronage of the different professions,
and it employed a Philadelphia pro
moter to conduct a sensational book
I sale which demoralized the entire book
trade of England.
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