Thirty years ago there were also more newspapers in New York than there are today. There were eight or nine morning newspapers; there are only five today. The Herald, a three-cent newspaper, enjoyed the high¬ est prestige, and was the most desirable advertising medium due to the class of its circulation. It easily led the journalistic field.
WHEN EDITORS WERE INDEPENDENT OF JEWS 213 At that time the Jewish population of New York was less than one-third of what it is today, but there was much wealth represented in it.
Now, what every newspaperman knows is this: most Jewish leaders are always interested either in getting a story published or getting it suppressed. There is no class of people who read the public press so carefully, with an eye to their own affairs, as do the Jews; and many an editor can vouch for that.
The Herald simply adopted the policy from the beginning of this form of harassment that it was not to be permitted to sway the Herald from its duty as a public informant. And that this had a reflex advan¬ tage for the other newspapers is apparent from the following statement:
If a scandal occurred in Jewish circles, influential Jews would swarm into the