Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-06-16
PARIS NEWSPAPERS.
SIGNED EDITORIALS ARE COMMON
 BUT NOT UNIVERSAL,

from one of several writers, among whom are Jules Simoa Emanuel Arene. Ranc and John Lemoinne Each writer ex- presses and is responsible for his own opinions only. and ss they represent all shades of politics except Socialism, what the paper says one morning is fatly con tradicted by it's article of the following day. What are called general articles" by the American newspapers are almost always signed by Paris writers They may be literary. critical, or may cover wide variety of interesting topics. Among the best contributions of this class are those of Anatole de Ia France and Hughes le Roux, written for the Temps.
 Foreign affairs, so far as regards the continent. are of late years treated with intelligence and ability. The domestic politics of the United States are still poorly understood by the majority of French journalists. with the exception of few who have crossed the ocean As to the foreign continent in general it Is fairer than that of the London newspapers, which is not paying it an extravagant compliment. Probably not less than sixty members of the senate and chamber of deputies are connected with the Paris newspapers, principally as contributors. This leads to what would be considered in other countries violations of parliamentary privilege, or to occurrences that strike foreigners as somewhat indelicate, jour- nals not hesitating sometimes to publish facts that should be kept secret. or to give speeches of their own writers in extenso with fulsome compliment
 IN THE LOCAL COLUMNS.
 The local columns of Paris newspaper are not what they should be or what their readers would be glad to have them, for want of room. The great city is mine of sensational material, tragic. comic, grave. gay, but always interesting if properly treated As Paris newspaper is usually small kour-pa sheet, printed in coarse type on bad paper, it is difficult to get more into it than the literary and political matter that must in any event appear. and a mere resume of local events If the foreign news is of great importance. local matter is crowded out. If single local event is sensational all other local matters, no matter how interesting in themselves, must make way for it. Re porters of some papers sign their names. This practice sometimes causes curious displays or esoci5m, the writers iofs otollle that which they have to naIrate is their own personal experiences. The facts are obscured by their efforts to obtain them, their little deprivations, and the articles of food that composed their breakfast. The self consciousness of French newspaper writers Is always notice- able. whether they sign their arti cles or not. The editorial i've" often appears in the editorial columns. It is hard for correspondent in a foreign capital to give the facts in 8 dispatch without prefacing or interspersing them with useless personal detail. Aside from these evidences of imperfection and jour nalistic juvenility, the local columns are usually readable, and sometimes bright and witty. The Paris interviewer, who Is recent institution already become universal, is. if possible, more unscrupu- lous and imaginative than his American confrere.
 A Paris newspaper office is not usually an abode of luxury. The France has a fine building, of which 1t uses but a small part itself. The Figaro is handsomely installed in the Rue Druot. The Petit Journal, the newspaper of the bonnes, coschmen and garcons, has comfortable quarters in the Rue Lafayette. Most of the papers of small circulation are in the upper story of some large building. where their business. editorial and composing departments are crowded into a few small, badly ventilated and poorly lighted
 rooms.
 TOO MANY NEWSPAPERS.
 There are far too many newspapers il France for the number of readers, anG
 they cannot all be rich. The revolution ] ary. socialistic and some of the ultra radi 5 cal newspapers are sold at one sou Mos 2 of the others are sold ct two sous. Som, ] are sold at three sous, with another so, added when the size is doubled, as in tn 3 case of the Saturday edition of the Figaro s A sou is sometimes added to the Paris pric ] for purchasers in the departments Tn ] newsboy cuts no great figure in Paris ] Men, boys and women cry certain sheet : in the streets. but if one wants a news !. paper he has usually to go to the new T stands. Prices of advertising are high ? and Paris merchants do not care muc l about the newspapers as a means of mas 8 ing their goods known. The space occu F. pied by legitimate advertising is small e therefore the newspapers have to depen ? for support on their circulation and ol s subsidies paid for their influence Thes D are sometimes large, and constitute thei .- chief means of livelihood.
 O Paris newspapers working for the mos : part with an insufficient staff, the habi ,, of copying from one another's columns b general, paragraphs being taken verbati1 J. by the evening from the morning paper l" and vice versa. As these paragraps ofte D contain opinions and individual ideas, the |" read curiously when met with in succe!
 sion in several different journals. Di.
 patches two or three days old are ofte
 seen in some of them An important O,
 currence happening In some Europea
 capital, like Bismarck's speech in th
 reichstag. is known, as regards its ger
 erai import, in San Francisco before it
 In Paris The speech in question was d. = ivered about o'clock The Temps th;
 appeared at 4:30 had nothing of it, an l. the Soir, appearing at 0 p. m., only Q fe IS words.-Paris Cor. San Francisco Chrol Is icle.
 le It May Come to This.
 n "Clara, are you going with me to the c. P. s. c. B. this evening?'