The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-02-03
THE MONDAY PAPER.
Wickedness Growing Out Of Its
Publication.
CHRONICLE or SUNDAY EVENTS.
Newsxssherers. Editors snd Printsrs who
work All Sunday 20 Produce
the Monday Paper.
CHRONICLE Or SUNDAY EVENTS.


Minneapolis Tribune.
So much has been said and written about
the siniuiness OF the Sunday paper. and 50
little has been said about the wrong Of
Monday paper, that We think il would be
refreshing to show up the wickedness that
necessarily grows out Of the publication Of
Monday morning newspaper. Let's have
no theories. but lets take the cold facts and
see how they look.
/. IL requires about fwo-tbirds Of the
regular force OF the Tribune TO produce the
Monday morning issue. That is 10 say,
ont Ut eight reporters FIVE are required to
be on duty. one-haif of the editorial force,
iwo-thirds OF the printers. and smaller
number from all the other departments OF
the paper.
=. The reporiorial force begin work at
the usual hour. p. m, on Sunday; the
editorial al - y. nl., as also do the print
ers. BY midnight Sunday the editorial
force, all the reporters. except the police
reporter. and the Office men are at home.
By 2o'elock in the morning the printers
are generally through. and the pressroom,
mailing and carrier forces are all beginning
in their several departments, which ends
viii. the delivery Of the papers al home or
postolfiee At about q. m.
3. The contents OF the Monday morning
paper is q chronicle of the events Of SUM-
day. The sermons printed are delivered
or Sunday, obtained by the reporters on
sunday. and put in type on Sunday. Nine
tenths of the Geographic news is gathered,
delivered and put in type before midnight
Sunday, yet no more work is done than be-
comes necessary for the product Of the
Monday paper.
e. This Monday mornings paper Is nee
essarily q negative paper. IL is published
to please few people who are conscien-
tiously opposed to reading Sunday paper
and TO let the world know that nothing has
happened since Saturday night. and if
something OF Importance has occurred, 70
give the world that information. But nine
times out OF ten the news of Sunday is
wholly uninsportant. 1t is SO meager that
publishers are compelled to resort to oil
sorts Of tricks to fill the space of the Mon
day issue. Nearly one page is filled with
sermons from the Sunday pulpit. Grand
Army matter and long and musty contri-
buttons from the public are dumped in
Mondays issue just rs filling. Yet this is
the paper, containing little news. gathered
on Sunday and printed on Sunday, that
our good friends the sunday crusaders
most desire, banker after and must have.
The men who produce the Monday
paper. however. do not work seven days,
neither do the men who produce the Sun
day paper. For the benefit OF truth and
some OF our good friends. who. like US,
sometimes state the case too strongly, il is
fair to say that no man engaged on the
Tribune works seven days In the week
every salaried man has his day off--and
the printers as a rule work less than six
nights . week.
But we did not start out to say this, but
TO state some objections 20 the Monday
morning paper. the product Of which robs
everybody who works on or for It Of the
Sunday.