The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-10-04


NEW YORK restaurateurs are adver-
tising eighty oysters for 20 cents. Only
to think of those bloated Eastern capital
lists buying oysters four for cent, while
the starving masses at Western church
fairs must pay dime a piece.
PRESIDENT DIAZ AND THE AMER
ICAN PRESS.
Diaz, President of Mexico, has shown
himself very capable of not only admin
istering the internal affairs of the Repub-
lie, but Of regulating its foreign relations.
1t is, however, as the cheap manufacturer
Of a foreign public opinion favorable to
Mexico, incidentally, but to the wisdom
and patriotism of Porfrio Diaz, especial
ly, that he stands forth in brilliant colors
If he had no occasion to 'beard the lion
in his den," he thinks there is to have
the American Eagle in his eye. So he
pays tribute to the influence of the press
OF this country by employing men to
"write up" himself and Mexico and
'write down" the United States and its
Government How this State secret be-
came public was in this wise: Mr. VIM.
Prichard, an American resident of the
City of Mexico, and former business
partner of President Diaz, recentIv adj
vertiscd in the papers of that city for the
return of some ''letters and official docu-
ments of personal interest which had
been lost in the street, and offered 500
reward for the same. The person who
found them examined the contents Of
these papers before the advertisement ap-
pcared in the papers, and submitted them
to a correspondent of the New York
Herald. Said correspondent finding erich
ness in them of national interest, gives
the substance of the documents to that
journal.
1t will be noted in passing that Mr..
prichard has for some months past la
bored to keep the American people alive
to the benefcence and success Of the
Diaz administration, and presented to
their view the bright side of the Mexi-
can situation, especially as regards the
Texas border troubles. As a sample of
the spirit of these articles we quote the
following from one published in the In
ternational Review few months siuce
"Mr. Secretary Evarts, reckless of the
honor of the American people, needless
at once of diplomatic truthfulness and
national justice, is himself the first to
show his utter contempt for the rules of
international comity,' and his defiant dis
regard of treaty obligations"
One of these lost documents consisted
of instructions to Mr. "Guillermo'
Prchard how to defend Mexico and its
statesmen in proper and convenient
form in the American press, and to make
known to the Mother Republic the true
state Of Mexican atIairs-the protecting
care of it's Government for all CONNER
cial enterprises-the new era of peace
stability and progress and, in a genera
way, to "make Mexico as properly
known wherever at the present day it il
habitually and with impunity Sian
1ered."
TO carry out work of such seeming
magnitude and Importance Mr.. PricharC
is to consider himself private employ,
of President Diaz on the following lib
eral allowances for salary and subsidy, to
wit:
Monthly estimate for the expense OF publish
ing articles and notices of interest and ad-
vantage when it may become nccessa y to
pay their insertion in influential and
widely circulated
salary -
Total monthly expense. $50
BY letter from Diaz it appears tina
$500 had already been forwarded to Nh
Prichard, and the former acknowledge
the receipt of "clippings from newspa
pers," the probable brain products Of tn
latter, and he is exhorted to continu
the good work of stulfing the America
press with panegyrics on Mexico an
Poririo Diaz. 1t is rather humiliatin
to the American press to think that an
great number of "infuential newspapers
could be CREASED" into the publicatio
OF Prichard's productions for 500
month by the "greaser" Diaz.
About the most interesting develol
mcnt made by these last documents is tn
br ringing to the surface that literar
quick of past generation, G. Edward
lie ter. Lester was at one time Unite