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Speaker 1 (00:23):
The Departed Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of Better Things
for better Living through Chemistry, presents the Cavalcade of America
Tonight's star Brian don Levy.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Tonight's DuPont Cavalcade, starring Brian don Levy, is called Really
of the Tribune. Mister Donaldvy portrays Horace Greeley in a
little known and human story about that colorful figure who
towered over American journalism in the nineteenth century as.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Editor of the New York Tribune.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Horace Greeley's sayings, ins and provocative, eccentric it is made
him one of America's favorite folk characters. We begin our
story in eighteen forty three in his office.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Whatever you tell me, mister Jenkins, I shall remember his
deathless prose. Now please go.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I have work, But mister Greedy, how about the money
you owe.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Me for newsprint? I've made a note of it. Good day.
Aren't we even going to talk about when you pay me?
Don't be vulgar, mister Jenkins. On your way out, Please
tell mister Raymond and mister Snow that I want to
see them. You might also say that I'm angry, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Sir, I just don't understand it before I come here.
I always know what I want to say, and somehow
I just never get to say it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I pity you, Jenkins from the bottom of my heart. Well,
if you pity me, mister Greedy, what about the money, patience,
mister Jenkins, Patience is a virtue, a great virtue. Yes, yes,
I suppose that's true, very true. Well, I always learned
a little something when I come here. Good day, Good day,
mister Jenkins. That you Raymond, No, sir, it's me Willie.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I brought your buttermilk and green crackers.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, I'll put it right down on the desk.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
We are on the desk.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
M Oh, just throw the papers on the floor. They
don't matter. Nothing matters. You're in trouble, sir, ain't you
I am? And don't say eight.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I'm selling more papers, mister Greeley. I can yell as
good as any paper seller in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm sure of that. Willy some buttermilk, No, thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Is it money, sir?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's money, Willy, and it's more. Boy. Do you know
what my difficulty is. I'm pompous. My newspaper is pompus.
I write editorials about high falutin things. I publish stories
about events in Asia and Africa. I go abroad when
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I should stay home. I'm not fooling. I'll tell you
what I've learned. Now. You take any average human being, Yes, sir,
the subject of deepest interest. Two. An average human being
is himself now next to himself, his wife, his children,
his neighbors. You learn that, Willie, Oh, that sees don't
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be foolish. That's hard to learn and harder to practice
from now on, though there isn't going to be a
new church opened or a saloon burned down that we
won't notice. And I can help, of course you can, Willy,
And you can help right now by telling mister Raymond
and mister Snow that if they don't show up in
five minutes, they're fired. Here's a This the item you're
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referring to. So, yes, mister Snow, that's the item. Why
did that item appear in James Gordon Bennett's herald and
not on our own tribune? Well, I suppose it's Snow
becauses why you're a reporter. Why don't ask me, sir?
Ask Henry Raymond. All right, mister Raymond, why does mister
Bennett beat us with the news. That's simple. He's got
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more reporters more you mean better reporters, don't you. That's
a matter of opinions. Whose opinion yours are the public,
mister Greeley, I'll be spoken to a civilla. Never mind
the civility. How about a little truth. The truth is
that my creditors are numerous. The truth is that my
reporters are stodgy. The truth is that James Gordon Bennett
sells two copies of the Herald for every copy we
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sell of the Tribune. Why let's learn from mister Bennett.
He can teach us a few things.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Sure, But if you asked me, Bennett's papers filled with trash.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
His mine's in the street. He finds news there, a
street corner accident, the story of a lost child, the
feeling of an immigrant on first setting foot in America. Raymond,
I give you two pieces of advice. First, never underestimate
the people you don't like. Second, if you can't beat
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your competitor, learn from him. Yah him. Don't try to
be sarcastic with me. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh it's fire man.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Not yet. You're still the best reporter in New York
in the day your second best. I'll fire you. Now
what to do? Gentlemen, mister Snow, have you any ideas
I wish I hadn't? For every reporter you employed, Bennett
employs ten.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
If Washington newspapers arrive late, we have no Washington News.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Bennett can afford to have his own staff in Washington.
We can't. He never runs out of the way. Well,
it's not whine about it. Have we any ideas? Well?
That's what I thought. It's all right, gentlemen. If we
can't prince fresh news, at least we can do for
the public by printing those accurately without typographical errors. Now
excuse me, I'm going to the composing room and have
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a little talk with our esteem. Thomas Richards.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Good morning, mister Greeley, the very person I want to see.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Look here.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
According to the New York Sun, you are, i quote,
a miscreant, a blockhead, and a large New England squash.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Wipe your chin, mister Richards, you drool.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
According to the Courier, quote Horace Greeley wears a half
double the size of his inflated head.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Never mind the Courier, let's talk about the Tribune. Do
you or do you not? Employ proofreaders. Who has anything
to say about my proofreaders? I do plenty. Wait a minute,
what's that vile, foul, filthy, poisonous thing in your hands? Pipe?
We'll lose it. It is lit, it's dead. Then take
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it out and give it a Christian burial. Wonderful to
see you in such good humor, Thomas Richards. You drink,
you swear you vote the Democratic ticket. Aren't you afraid
of eternal damnation?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, I'm afraid you're not gonna pay me the back wages?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yomi? What if your aunt Harriet heard about your carryings
on down here? My aunt Harriet is way up in
New Hampshire where she belongs. Besides, when she got me
my job with you, she didn't hire herself on as
my chaperone. I promised her'd look after you. He also
promised me my back wages. Let's talk about my back wages,
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mister Richards. Patience is a great virtue for you or
for me, Tom, I've been underestimating you. You've got intelligence,
all right? What have I got that you want? Sit
down with you? I'll stand It's safer. Our problems is
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to get the news, to get it accurately. Completely and speedily. Speed.
That's the main problem printing the news first. Now, question,
how can we get the news faster than our competitors
carrier pigeons. Well, not a bad idea. The trouble is,
it's not a new idea. Our competitors are already using
carrier pigeons, are they now? Little devils? Will that being?
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So let us use something faster than a carrier pigeon. Ah,
what well that'd be telling. Let's keep it to me. Look,
if you have something faster than a carrier pigeon, I
wanted do it, Richards. Do it for the New York Tribune. You,
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miss Richards, shut up.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You're spoiling my aim.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's a game, Thomas Richards. What in heavens you doing?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
One moment, mister Greeley, mister missed, what the pigeon? Quick, Joe,
give me the other gun. Put that gun down, mister Greeley.
Those are the Herald's carrier pigeons. Put down that gun
before I brain you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But they're going to beat us with the news. Then
they're going to beat us. I want to win, but
there are some things I won't do. It's only a
pige Next week it might be a horse driven by
a Herald reporter. Would you shoot a horse to score
a news beat? Huh. Let's be enterprising, but fair. The
public needs news, not mayhem. Now, come on, come on,
tell Raymond and Snow that I want them. We've been
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wasting too much time. We've got to start moving. And
I know how and I know where. But what can
we do?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Not just so the Tribune stays in business, but to.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Push your head, I don't know. It's certainly going to
have to be something spectacular. That's You're right.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
If you will allow me to be a little stuffy,
I'd say it'll have to be something unique in.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The history of journalists. Talk talk talk, gentlemen, We've had
enough of talk. Now we need action. The reason I
asked you to come here with such urgencies because three
days from now, Daniel Webster delivers a speech at Andover, Massachusetts.
What about it? The rumors are that Webster may decide
to announce for the president. Well, whatever Daniel Webster says
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that Andover, I want it for the first page of
the Tribune on the next day. The next day, the
next day, how nice. Before any other newspaper in New
York carries the story before the Sun, the Union, the Corrier,
the Journal of Commerce, the Post, but most of all
before the New York Herald. And I know how to
get that story first. You do, mister Grell, I do,
Mister Raymond, I do, Raymond. I am asking you and
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Richard's to be prepared to take the next boat to Boston.
That's the same boat the other reporters will be taking. Gentlemen,
I have a plan, and I ask you not to interrupt.
Please listen carefully. The boat to Boston will carry the
best newspaper men in the United States. Nevertheless, tomorrow we
shall put in the moon. Mister Grayley. We don't stand
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a chap. Why not, mister snow Offen. It has three
outstanding men on board. The Sun is two, the Courier two,
the Post. Every paper in town as hopeless nonsense? Has
Raymond gone aboard a few seconds ago and Richard two
hours ago? As for your instructions, was he observed? He
could have been, There was no one here to observe
him drunk or sober. Today he's as cold sober as
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a compositor's stone. The question is will he remain that way?
He will? I wouldn't be too sure. Sir, I would
I've taken out temperance insurance? What I've engaged the watchdog,
a most angular, articulate and strong minded watchdog. I beg
your pardon, sir qush, mister Snow, behold our watchdog approacheth.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Ah, mister, my dear Horace Greeley Aunt Harriet.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
May I introduce my colleague, mister Snow. This is Tom
Richards Aunt Harriet from Hampshire. How do you do, mister Snow?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Any colleague of Horace Greeley must be a great man.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh, fiddlesticks, my dear lady, I'm no great man. There.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Notice the modesty of a man. His editorials are changing
the political and moral climate of America. He is becoming
the most popular lecturer on temperance, moderation and vegetarianism. And
he says, fiddlesticks, Now, where is.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
My nephews safe on board? Don't sober? Excellent?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It is my firm resolve that he will stay that way.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You see, mister Snow. I explained the situation to this lady,
and she immediately volunteered to keep an eye on her nephew,
and so I did. The lady will accompany us to
Boston and so I will.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And as far as my nephew is concerned, the only
thing that will be wet will.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Be the ocean. Mister Greeley, you're a genius. Thanko. Well,
now let us see whether we have enough genius to
print Daniel Webster's speech in the Tribune before any other
newspaper can publish it. On Harriett, we go on board.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
As to you, Horace Greeley, con.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
It is November eighteen forty three, north of Boston, in
the Massachusetts village of Andover. Daniel Webster is addressing an
immense crowd of ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Men and women.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, has chosen
this event as a test of a new theory of
news publishing. Daniel Webster is speaking these ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
It is not without considerable reluctance, fellow citizens, that I
present my sale before this speaking today.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It has been my.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Purpose to abstain entirely from public addresses.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Mister Greeley, my dear Raymond. Daniel Webster is speaking, I know,
but he isn't saying very much. A sure sign of
what said. He has nothing much to say now up
to be urged with so much earnestness that it is
not in.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
My yielding nature too with old assent and you Webster,
I am not a candidate for any office in the
gift of the government.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Write that down, or in the gift of the people.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I am a private citizen, and that condition will never
be changed by any movement or effort made for that
purpose by myself, all at my suggestion.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's it, there it is. Raymond got every word, mister Greeley.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So Daniel Webster is not a candidate for president of
the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's important news. Keep struggling, Raymond. I'm going back to
the ship in Boston. Harbor us come to see that.
I'm Harriet has our printer, mister Thomas Richard lucked securely
in his cabin. Where's the key on her?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Here, mister Greeley, next to my heart. It's quite safe.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I'm absolutely sure of that, Adam clearly. Better to let
me out. Think of the tribune, my dear Richards. It's
better this way. I promise to take the pledge. Please believe.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
We believe you, Thomas. But there's no point in taking
chances now. Don't worry about him, mister Greeley. You get
on to mister Raymond and see that he starts transcribing
his notes.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Ne view.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It will do you no good to make such an
unseemly racket.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We are in Boston. Be a gentleman, well, Raymond, We're
on the way, Yes, sir, are you making copy? Trying
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to sure is a pleasure to see you work. Very
kind of you. What are the other reporters doing? All
taking their ease? I'm the lucky dogs. Don't envy them, Raymond,
You are making journalistic history. Don't be too sure. Once
they get on to what we're up to, the whole
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thing is finished. They mustn't get onto what we're up to.
Aunt Harriet will carry your copy to Richard every half hour. Now,
please lock your door and continue writing. I'm going out
on deck for a bit of eric. Nice to have
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you on board, mister Greeley. Eh, oh, yes, thank you.
You don't remember me. My name's Clark. I'm employed by
the New York Herald. Oh it's charming. I haven't noticed
mister Raymond in the salone. Oh, come to think of it,
neither have I. And what are you doing on board,
mister Greenway? Why the seer, sir? It's a remedy for dullness,
despair and dejection, and good for competition. My dear sir,
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why don't you join some of your friends? I'd rather
join mister Raymond. What's he doing in his cabin, mister Greeley?
Oh nothing, He inclines towards sea sickness poor man. I
tried the door of his cabin was locked, too bad.
I was anxious to help him. You must be a
very good friend of his and a good friend of yours,
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mister Greeley, I'm anxious to help you. Oh fine, fine,
well goodbye. He'd be surprised to know how anxious I
am to help.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Excuse me, madam, I beg your pardon, sir, kindly take
your hands off these papers.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What's that you're holding? Copy? What? Copy?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I believe I use the word accurately.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You got that from Raymond? Didn't you kindly go away?
Why are you bringing it down here? To whom? And
for what reason?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I resent your peremptory tone, Sir, you are not nice.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That tells me just what I want to know. Out
of my way, madam, I really, Clark, Hey, look as
though you'd seen the ghost I've seen old Tom Richards
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through the port will of a cabin. Why you're crazy?
What's he doing here? He's got a small printing offer
set up in this cabin. What and he's busy setting
Daniel Webster's speech into type.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, two hours after this boat docks, the New York
Tribune and we'll hit the Street for Daniel Webster's speech.
I knew it. I knew Horace Greeley wasn't on board
for the ocean breeze. We've been out smoking. No, we haven't.
I know. Tom Richards, good old Tom. He must be
dying of thirst. Out of my way, please.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Hey Tom, Tom, Hey Tom Richards, Tom, can you stand a.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Drink more water? One hundred proof water. You wouldn't deceive
a dying man. We brought your bottle. Tom reached your
hand out of the porthole. Wonderful. All right, we're right here,
got it.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Termas Richards, your aunt Harriet happened.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Hey, what's going on? Have no fear, mister Gridley. The
crisis is over.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Oh oh, look out for the broken glass, Harriet.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Dear Harriet. American journalism owes you a great debt. Mister Greely.
You can't win this one, can I? Mister Clark, Harry
Raymond's manuscript is being set up inside this cabin, word
for word, line by line into nice, cold, accurate, sober
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type columns of type. At five am when we land
at the battery, that type will be driven to the
shop of the Tribune and printed. Now I realize you
reporters are with the opposition. Well, let me warn you
don't interfere, driver, those are columns of type you're lifting.
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Nice sexopon, lay it gently in what my nephew tells you. Gently, driver,
Please please everyone, there's no cause for panic. Uh driver, Yes,
mister Greeley, things might happen. Be alert even to me.
Mister Greeley, All right, hold on, everybody, get it mister Davis,
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by your forms locked, forms up. Then let your steam
presses roll, mis Greedy. There's some tough looking characters outside.
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They might be higher thucks Davis pulled every door. Lock
your windows, fasten your shutters. This edition is going to
be printed, distributed, and not forgotten.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Extra speech of Daniel Webster only in the New York Tribune,
no other paper, New York Tribute anything.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
My heart's feeling, mister Greeley.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Mister Greeley, look look at my hands.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
M well, dirtiers than usual.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're empty. Every copy sold, every single copy.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Uh. Will you join me in a glass of buttermilk?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
No, thank you? And the other papers didn't even dare
mention the name of Daniel Webster. They were beaten and
they knew it. The Sun, the Post that herald the
whole kitten kaboo.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Willie, come here, yes, sir, uh, closer, You'll find a
towel somewhere under those almanacs, and soap and a comb.
Wash your face, comb your hair, Yes, sir, it's in fun,
hasn't it. Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yes, sir, yes, sir ah.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But more than fun, your face is sad, not sad,
just that I've been thinking how large this business is,
how important I've tried to express what I feel in
my own clumsy words. Would you like to hear them?
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The world's a printing house. Our words and thoughts and
deeds are characters of various sizes. Each soul is a composition.
Who's false? The Levites may correct, but Heaven revises. Death
is a common press from whence being driven, gathered sheep
by sheep, and bound for heaven.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Gosh, that's awful good. Really, you're pretty serious about the
newspaper business.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Aren't you, Yes, Willie, Because it's the best business in
the whole world. Because the function of a newspaper is
to open a window upon the world and to tell
the truth about the world. And there's nothing more serious
and more important than the truth.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Horace Greeley was not just a great editor for millions
of Americans. He became an oracle in a time of
sweeping American growth. He preached of the new West, of
free homesteads and the rights of ordinary men and women.
Today's six towns and villages in Western States bear the
name of Horace Greeley. These are his monuments. These and
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our free press our thanks to Brian von Levy and
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through chemistry.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Next week, the star of DuPont Cavalcade will be Lee Bowman.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Our play Fiber.
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Sixty six tells the fascinating story of a great chemical
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Be sure to listen.
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based on an incident in Horace Greeley. Voice of the
People by William H.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Hale, published by Harper's.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Music, was composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Bories.
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The Departed Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of Better Things
for better Living through Chemistry, presents the Cavalcade of America
Tonight's star Brian don Levy.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Tonight's DuPont Cavalcade, starring Brian don Levy, is called Really
of the Tribune. Mister Donaldvy portrays Horace Greeley in a
little known and human story about that colorful figure who
towered over American journalism in the nineteenth century as.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Editor of the New York Tribune.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Horace Greeley's sayings, ins and provocative, eccentric it is made
him one of America's favorite folk characters. We begin our
story in eighteen forty three in his office.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Whatever you tell me, mister Jenkins, I shall remember his
deathless prose. Now please go.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I have work, But mister Greedy, how about the money
you owe.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Me for newsprint? I've made a note of it. Good day.
Aren't we even going to talk about when you pay me?
Don't be vulgar, mister Jenkins. On your way out, Please
tell mister Raymond and mister Snow that I want to
see them. You might also say that I'm angry, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Sir, I just don't understand it before I come here.
I always know what I want to say, and somehow
I just never get to say it.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I pity you, Jenkins from the bottom of my heart. Well,
if you pity me, mister Greedy, what about the money, patience,
mister Jenkins, Patience is a virtue, a great virtue. Yes, yes,
I suppose that's true, very true. Well, I always learned
a little something when I come here. Good day, Good day,
mister Jenkins. That you Raymond, No, sir, it's me Willie.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
I brought your buttermilk and green crackers.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Well, I'll put it right down on the desk.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
We are on the desk.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
M Oh, just throw the papers on the floor. They
don't matter. Nothing matters. You're in trouble, sir, ain't you
I am? And don't say eight.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I'm selling more papers, mister Greeley. I can yell as
good as any paper seller in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
I'm sure of that. Willy some buttermilk, No, thank you?
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Is it money, sir?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's money, Willy, and it's more. Boy. Do you know
what my difficulty is. I'm pompous. My newspaper is pompus.
I write editorials about high falutin things. I publish stories
about events in Asia and Africa. I go abroad when
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I should stay home. I'm not fooling. I'll tell you
what I've learned. Now. You take any average human being, Yes, sir,
the subject of deepest interest. Two. An average human being
is himself now next to himself, his wife, his children,
his neighbors. You learn that, Willie, Oh, that sees don't
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be foolish. That's hard to learn and harder to practice
from now on, though there isn't going to be a
new church opened or a saloon burned down that we
won't notice. And I can help, of course you can, Willy,
And you can help right now by telling mister Raymond
and mister Snow that if they don't show up in
five minutes, they're fired. Here's a This the item you're
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referring to. So, yes, mister Snow, that's the item. Why
did that item appear in James Gordon Bennett's herald and
not on our own tribune? Well, I suppose it's Snow
becauses why you're a reporter. Why don't ask me, sir?
Ask Henry Raymond. All right, mister Raymond, why does mister
Bennett beat us with the news. That's simple. He's got
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more reporters more you mean better reporters, don't you. That's
a matter of opinions. Whose opinion yours are the public,
mister Greeley, I'll be spoken to a civilla. Never mind
the civility. How about a little truth. The truth is
that my creditors are numerous. The truth is that my
reporters are stodgy. The truth is that James Gordon Bennett
sells two copies of the Herald for every copy we
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sell of the Tribune. Why let's learn from mister Bennett.
He can teach us a few things.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Sure, But if you asked me, Bennett's papers filled with trash.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
His mine's in the street. He finds news there, a
street corner accident, the story of a lost child, the
feeling of an immigrant on first setting foot in America. Raymond,
I give you two pieces of advice. First, never underestimate
the people you don't like. Second, if you can't beat
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your competitor, learn from him. Yah him. Don't try to
be sarcastic with me. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh it's fire man.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Not yet. You're still the best reporter in New York
in the day your second best. I'll fire you. Now
what to do? Gentlemen, mister Snow, have you any ideas
I wish I hadn't? For every reporter you employed, Bennett
employs ten.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
If Washington newspapers arrive late, we have no Washington News.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Bennett can afford to have his own staff in Washington.
We can't. He never runs out of the way. Well,
it's not whine about it. Have we any ideas? Well?
That's what I thought. It's all right, gentlemen. If we
can't prince fresh news, at least we can do for
the public by printing those accurately without typographical errors. Now
excuse me, I'm going to the composing room and have
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a little talk with our esteem. Thomas Richards.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Good morning, mister Greeley, the very person I want to see.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Look here.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
According to the New York Sun, you are, i quote,
a miscreant, a blockhead, and a large New England squash.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Wipe your chin, mister Richards, you drool.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
According to the Courier, quote Horace Greeley wears a half
double the size of his inflated head.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Never mind the Courier, let's talk about the Tribune. Do
you or do you not? Employ proofreaders. Who has anything
to say about my proofreaders? I do plenty. Wait a minute,
what's that vile, foul, filthy, poisonous thing in your hands? Pipe?
We'll lose it. It is lit, it's dead. Then take
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it out and give it a Christian burial. Wonderful to
see you in such good humor, Thomas Richards. You drink,
you swear you vote the Democratic ticket. Aren't you afraid
of eternal damnation?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, I'm afraid you're not gonna pay me the back wages?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yomi? What if your aunt Harriet heard about your carryings
on down here? My aunt Harriet is way up in
New Hampshire where she belongs. Besides, when she got me
my job with you, she didn't hire herself on as
my chaperone. I promised her'd look after you. He also
promised me my back wages. Let's talk about my back wages,
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mister Richards. Patience is a great virtue for you or
for me, Tom, I've been underestimating you. You've got intelligence,
all right? What have I got that you want? Sit
down with you? I'll stand It's safer. Our problems is
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to get the news, to get it accurately. Completely and speedily. Speed.
That's the main problem printing the news first. Now, question,
how can we get the news faster than our competitors
carrier pigeons. Well, not a bad idea. The trouble is,
it's not a new idea. Our competitors are already using
carrier pigeons, are they now? Little devils? Will that being?
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So let us use something faster than a carrier pigeon. Ah,
what well that'd be telling. Let's keep it to me. Look,
if you have something faster than a carrier pigeon, I
wanted do it, Richards. Do it for the New York Tribune. You,
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miss Richards, shut up.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You're spoiling my aim.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's a game, Thomas Richards. What in heavens you doing?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
One moment, mister Greeley, mister missed, what the pigeon? Quick, Joe,
give me the other gun. Put that gun down, mister Greeley.
Those are the Herald's carrier pigeons. Put down that gun
before I brain you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
But they're going to beat us with the news. Then
they're going to beat us. I want to win, but
there are some things I won't do. It's only a
pige Next week it might be a horse driven by
a Herald reporter. Would you shoot a horse to score
a news beat? Huh. Let's be enterprising, but fair. The
public needs news, not mayhem. Now, come on, come on,
tell Raymond and Snow that I want them. We've been
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wasting too much time. We've got to start moving. And
I know how and I know where. But what can
we do?
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Not just so the Tribune stays in business, but to.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Push your head, I don't know. It's certainly going to
have to be something spectacular. That's You're right.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
If you will allow me to be a little stuffy,
I'd say it'll have to be something unique in.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The history of journalists. Talk talk talk, gentlemen, We've had
enough of talk. Now we need action. The reason I
asked you to come here with such urgencies because three
days from now, Daniel Webster delivers a speech at Andover, Massachusetts.
What about it? The rumors are that Webster may decide
to announce for the president. Well, whatever Daniel Webster says
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that Andover, I want it for the first page of
the Tribune on the next day. The next day, the
next day, how nice. Before any other newspaper in New
York carries the story before the Sun, the Union, the Corrier,
the Journal of Commerce, the Post, but most of all
before the New York Herald. And I know how to
get that story first. You do, mister Grell, I do,
Mister Raymond, I do, Raymond. I am asking you and
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Richard's to be prepared to take the next boat to Boston.
That's the same boat the other reporters will be taking. Gentlemen,
I have a plan, and I ask you not to interrupt.
Please listen carefully. The boat to Boston will carry the
best newspaper men in the United States. Nevertheless, tomorrow we
shall put in the moon. Mister Grayley. We don't stand
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a chap. Why not, mister snow Offen. It has three
outstanding men on board. The Sun is two, the Courier two,
the Post. Every paper in town as hopeless nonsense? Has
Raymond gone aboard a few seconds ago and Richard two
hours ago? As for your instructions, was he observed? He
could have been, There was no one here to observe
him drunk or sober. Today he's as cold sober as
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a compositor's stone. The question is will he remain that way?
He will? I wouldn't be too sure. Sir, I would
I've taken out temperance insurance? What I've engaged the watchdog,
a most angular, articulate and strong minded watchdog. I beg
your pardon, sir qush, mister Snow, behold our watchdog approacheth.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
Ah, mister, my dear Horace Greeley Aunt Harriet.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
May I introduce my colleague, mister Snow. This is Tom
Richards Aunt Harriet from Hampshire. How do you do, mister Snow?
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Any colleague of Horace Greeley must be a great man.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Oh, fiddlesticks, my dear lady, I'm no great man. There.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Notice the modesty of a man. His editorials are changing
the political and moral climate of America. He is becoming
the most popular lecturer on temperance, moderation and vegetarianism. And
he says, fiddlesticks, Now, where is.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
My nephews safe on board? Don't sober? Excellent?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It is my firm resolve that he will stay that way.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You see, mister Snow. I explained the situation to this lady,
and she immediately volunteered to keep an eye on her nephew,
and so I did. The lady will accompany us to
Boston and so I will.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And as far as my nephew is concerned, the only
thing that will be wet will.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Be the ocean. Mister Greeley, you're a genius. Thanko. Well,
now let us see whether we have enough genius to
print Daniel Webster's speech in the Tribune before any other
newspaper can publish it. On Harriett, we go on board.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
As to you, Horace Greeley, con.
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
It is November eighteen forty three, north of Boston, in
the Massachusetts village of Andover. Daniel Webster is addressing an
immense crowd of ten thousand.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Men and women.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, has chosen
this event as a test of a new theory of
news publishing. Daniel Webster is speaking these ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
It is not without considerable reluctance, fellow citizens, that I
present my sale before this speaking today.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
It has been my.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Purpose to abstain entirely from public addresses.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Mister Greeley, my dear Raymond. Daniel Webster is speaking, I know,
but he isn't saying very much. A sure sign of
what said. He has nothing much to say now up
to be urged with so much earnestness that it is
not in.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
My yielding nature too with old assent and you Webster,
I am not a candidate for any office in the
gift of the government.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Write that down, or in the gift of the people.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I am a private citizen, and that condition will never
be changed by any movement or effort made for that
purpose by myself, all at my suggestion.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
That's it, there it is. Raymond got every word, mister Greeley.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So Daniel Webster is not a candidate for president of
the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's important news. Keep struggling, Raymond. I'm going back to
the ship in Boston. Harbor us come to see that.
I'm Harriet has our printer, mister Thomas Richard lucked securely
in his cabin. Where's the key on her?
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Here, mister Greeley, next to my heart. It's quite safe.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
I'm absolutely sure of that, Adam clearly. Better to let
me out. Think of the tribune, my dear Richards. It's
better this way. I promise to take the pledge. Please believe.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
We believe you, Thomas. But there's no point in taking
chances now. Don't worry about him, mister Greeley. You get
on to mister Raymond and see that he starts transcribing
his notes.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Ne view.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
It will do you no good to make such an
unseemly racket.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We are in Boston. Be a gentleman, well, Raymond, We're
on the way, Yes, sir, are you making copy? Trying
(17:12):
to sure is a pleasure to see you work. Very
kind of you. What are the other reporters doing? All
taking their ease? I'm the lucky dogs. Don't envy them, Raymond,
You are making journalistic history. Don't be too sure. Once
they get on to what we're up to, the whole
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thing is finished. They mustn't get onto what we're up to.
Aunt Harriet will carry your copy to Richard every half hour. Now,
please lock your door and continue writing. I'm going out
on deck for a bit of eric. Nice to have
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you on board, mister Greeley. Eh, oh, yes, thank you.
You don't remember me. My name's Clark. I'm employed by
the New York Herald. Oh it's charming. I haven't noticed
mister Raymond in the salone. Oh, come to think of it,
neither have I. And what are you doing on board,
mister Greenway? Why the seer, sir? It's a remedy for dullness,
despair and dejection, and good for competition. My dear sir,
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why don't you join some of your friends? I'd rather
join mister Raymond. What's he doing in his cabin, mister Greeley?
Oh nothing, He inclines towards sea sickness poor man. I
tried the door of his cabin was locked, too bad.
I was anxious to help him. You must be a
very good friend of his and a good friend of yours,
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mister Greeley, I'm anxious to help you. Oh fine, fine,
well goodbye. He'd be surprised to know how anxious I
am to help.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Excuse me, madam, I beg your pardon, sir, kindly take
your hands off these papers.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
What's that you're holding? Copy? What? Copy?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I believe I use the word accurately.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You got that from Raymond? Didn't you kindly go away?
Why are you bringing it down here? To whom? And
for what reason?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I resent your peremptory tone, Sir, you are not nice.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
That tells me just what I want to know. Out
of my way, madam, I really, Clark, Hey, look as
though you'd seen the ghost I've seen old Tom Richards
(19:41):
through the port will of a cabin. Why you're crazy?
What's he doing here? He's got a small printing offer
set up in this cabin. What and he's busy setting
Daniel Webster's speech into type.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
No.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yeah, two hours after this boat docks, the New York
Tribune and we'll hit the Street for Daniel Webster's speech.
I knew it. I knew Horace Greeley wasn't on board
for the ocean breeze. We've been out smoking. No, we haven't.
I know. Tom Richards, good old Tom. He must be
dying of thirst. Out of my way, please.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Hey Tom, Tom, Hey Tom Richards, Tom, can you stand a.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Drink more water? One hundred proof water. You wouldn't deceive
a dying man. We brought your bottle. Tom reached your
hand out of the porthole. Wonderful. All right, we're right here,
got it.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Termas Richards, your aunt Harriet happened.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Hey, what's going on? Have no fear, mister Gridley. The
crisis is over.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Oh oh, look out for the broken glass, Harriet.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Dear Harriet. American journalism owes you a great debt. Mister Greely.
You can't win this one, can I? Mister Clark, Harry
Raymond's manuscript is being set up inside this cabin, word
for word, line by line into nice, cold, accurate, sober
(21:17):
type columns of type. At five am when we land
at the battery, that type will be driven to the
shop of the Tribune and printed. Now I realize you
reporters are with the opposition. Well, let me warn you
don't interfere, driver, those are columns of type you're lifting.
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Nice sexopon, lay it gently in what my nephew tells you. Gently, driver,
Please please everyone, there's no cause for panic. Uh driver, Yes,
mister Greeley, things might happen. Be alert even to me.
Mister Greeley, All right, hold on, everybody, get it mister Davis,
(22:29):
by your forms locked, forms up. Then let your steam
presses roll, mis Greedy. There's some tough looking characters outside.
(22:49):
They might be higher thucks Davis pulled every door. Lock
your windows, fasten your shutters. This edition is going to
be printed, distributed, and not forgotten.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
Extra speech of Daniel Webster only in the New York Tribune,
no other paper, New York Tribute anything.
Speaker 9 (23:15):
My heart's feeling, mister Greeley.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Mister Greeley, look look at my hands.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
M well, dirtiers than usual.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
You're empty. Every copy sold, every single copy.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Uh. Will you join me in a glass of buttermilk?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
No, thank you? And the other papers didn't even dare
mention the name of Daniel Webster. They were beaten and
they knew it. The Sun, the Post that herald the
whole kitten kaboo.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Willie, come here, yes, sir, uh, closer, You'll find a
towel somewhere under those almanacs, and soap and a comb.
Wash your face, comb your hair, Yes, sir, it's in fun,
hasn't it. Oh?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yes, sir, yes, sir ah.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
But more than fun, your face is sad, not sad,
just that I've been thinking how large this business is,
how important I've tried to express what I feel in
my own clumsy words. Would you like to hear them?
(24:42):
The world's a printing house. Our words and thoughts and
deeds are characters of various sizes. Each soul is a composition.
Who's false? The Levites may correct, but Heaven revises. Death
is a common press from whence being driven, gathered sheep
by sheep, and bound for heaven.
Speaker 5 (25:04):
Gosh, that's awful good. Really, you're pretty serious about the
newspaper business.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Aren't you, Yes, Willie, Because it's the best business in
the whole world. Because the function of a newspaper is
to open a window upon the world and to tell
the truth about the world. And there's nothing more serious
and more important than the truth.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Horace Greeley was not just a great editor for millions
of Americans. He became an oracle in a time of
sweeping American growth. He preached of the new West, of
free homesteads and the rights of ordinary men and women.
Today's six towns and villages in Western States bear the
name of Horace Greeley. These are his monuments. These and
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our free press our thanks to Brian von Levy and
the Cavalcade players for tonight's story. Now Here is Bill
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Hamilton speaking for the DuPont company.
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it right for certain jobs. For thousands of years, the
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human race had to depend on a few fibers from
plants and animals. You can count the main ones on
the fingers of one hand. Flax from which linen is made,
and wool, cotton, and silk. Then came chemical science. For
the first time, it was possible to create fibers with
entirely new properties. The whole picture changed. Manufactures of all
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the thousands of articles making use of textile fire fibers,
from industrial filter claws to raincoats, from automobile tires to
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through chemistry.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Next week, the star of DuPont Cavalcade will be Lee Bowman.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Our play Fiber.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Sixty six tells the fascinating story of a great chemical
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Speaker 1 (29:15):
Be sure to listen.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Tonight's DuPont Cavalcade was written by Morton Wishingrad and was
based on an incident in Horace Greeley. Voice of the
People by William H.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Hale, published by Harper's.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Music, was composed by Arden Cornwell and conducted by Donald Bories.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
The program was directed by John Zeller. Since nineteen ten,
the Boy Scouts of America have rendered a distinguished public service.
This is Boy Scout Week. We join the nation in
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Lee Bowman. The Cavalcade of America comes to you from
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