American Press enterprise is always to the fore. It is well within recollection that one go-ahead journal offered a hatful of dollars to the Prince of Wales for an article upon some pressing political incident of the hour which happened to attract conspicuous attention. The rejoinder, of course, was in the negative, and, though courteously conveyed, it forbade all such intrusive propositions for the future. Now another similar incident has occurred. One of our contemporaries across the "herring pond" having cabled to M. Zola asking him to report the Rennes trial, the famous novelist replied, "Not for millions of dollars." In Europe the dollar is not so "almighty" as in the United States, a circumstance which our American cousins would do well to lay to heart.
The Irish Times, July 14th, 1899.