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something of the freshness it had inherited from its satirical
predecessor, while at the same time it enjoyed esteem for its urbanity and
thoroughness in discussion. Politically, it was at first an advocate
of the programme of the Reform party; but by degrees its want
of a firm political attitude became more apparent, as the struggle
between the governing powers became keener, until there became
gradually less room for its mediatory interposition.
While «Morgenbladet’s» Conservative rivals, «Den
Constitutionelle» and «Christiania-Posten», did not succeed in winning a
sufficiently large circle of readers to ensure their existence,
Morgenbladet always came out of the battle stronger. During the long
series of years in which Stabell was responsible for its editorship,
he worked it up from an advertisement-paper and a neutral organ
for contributors of all shades, to become the most widely
circulated and influential newspaper in Norway. And the different
political attitude which the paper gradually assumed in the fifties,
far from impairing its influence, only strengthened its position.
The rupture which at this time took place in the old opposition,
and which led to the formation of a new political party with a
more advanced democratic programme, forced «Morgenbladet» into
a more and more Conservative policy, so that it was often on the
side of the government. This was still more the case after Chr.
Friele, in 1857, had succeeded Stabell as editor of the paper.
With his sharp eye for the weaknesses in the phenomena and men
in political life, and by his uncompromising, often personal
criticism, he caused «Morgenbladet» to become a universally dreaded
castigator. Through his connection with men in the most
prominent positions, and by his fearless persistence, he raised his paper
into the leading organ of the Conservative policy; and as such, it
took up, in the seventies, an altogether dominant position in the
journalistic world. The development of circumstances, and the
triumphant progress of the Reform party, have made a change in
this; but the paper has kept its place in the foremost ranks of
Norwegian newspapers. Its editor, since Friele’s resignation at
the end of 1893, has been Nils Vogt.
Whereas the journals of the capital hitherto had been
calculated for the upper classes, and were comparatively expensive, the
two still-existing newspapers, Aftenposten (1860) and Christiania
Nyheds- og Avertissementsblad (1861) were founded with an eye to
the less wealthy part of the population. They were both at first
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