Show THE COMING NEWSPAPER Predicting what the journals of the future will say Alfred Hannswovth says I feel certain that the newspapers of the twentieth century will be drawn Into the vortex of combination S and centralization In fact given the man the capital the organization and the occasion there seems to be no reason rea-son why one or two newspapers mayS may-S not presently dominate great sections I of the United Slates or almost the whole of Great Britain In other words S where there are now a multitude of papers thero will then be one or two great journals The method by which I such journals would be established would bo precisely those employed in I the formation of the ordinary trust I Possessing its own cables wires dispatch dis-patch boats and special trains 1 the Niniultanpous newspaper concern j I would POOH have its own paper mills printing Ink factories machineshops and the like The simultaneous Jt news I pHper would represent a standard of excellence which line never been before I reached And with Its great resources I re-sources It would be able to carry out I on an unprcceJented scale enterprises otUjiMc of the strict newspaper field My Idea of the newspaper of the twentieth century may be thus expressed ex-pressed In brief Let us Suppose one of the great American newspapers say the Sun of New York in my opinion perhaps tile best ranged of all I American newspapers the control of a man of the Journalistic I ability of Delano the greatest of the former iditors of the London Times certainly the greatest political editor in the history of Journalism backed by an organixal ion as perfect as that of the Standard Oil company and issued simultaneously each morning in say New York Boston Chicago PIttbburg SL Louis Philadelphia and other points In America or at London Liverpool Manchester Bristol Edinburgh Edin-burgh Belfast and Newcastle in Great Britain Is it not obvious that the power of such f paper might become such as wu have not yet seen In the history of the press And would not such a journal effectually revive the waning influence of the newspaper upon up-on the life and thought of the nation |