Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-09-03
MEXICAN NEWSPAPERS.
JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS IN A
SPANISH REPUBLIC.

Hcfos your daily paper OF tomorrow
THIS IA the cry hear nj o'clock every
afternoon /. the streets Of Mexico City.
Dozens Of uewsboys arc crying Il.
Ragged, dirty little fellows, thoy look
cut under big hats and stick chcaply
printed newspapers under your nose
while they yell ont In Spanish the names
Of their papers and say that they con-
tain oil the news Of tomorrow. In tho
morning they will cry tho same papers
~ just from tho pross and pretend that
they contain ali the nows Of the day.
Mexican daily newspapers are always
printed la sio afternoon before the dato
Of publication. The editors and report
en- arc ton lazy 10 think Of nigh, work
aud they have no idea Of the value Of
ncwA kilograms arc just M likely to
be printed three days after reception or
10 be thrown out entirely rs to b. used
At once, and q pgosy three column cdi-
torial often crowds out a big accident or
good news matter. Tho Mexican H..
portos do not know what tho word
scoop means. aud many Of thom will
not take kilograms, because they tay
they have not the room for thsn.
Nevertheless, there are twcnty.ninc
dailios In Mexico City. Tho most Of
these are subsidized by tho government.
AL have small circulation. and the big
gcst Journal Of tho whole Mexican ~
public runs out only about 5000 copies
daily. This ia II Monitor Ropublicano,
which Is the great independent daily Of
Mexico City, which contains about 800.-
600 people and which Is bigger than Gin.
oinnau.
NEWSPAPER ROW.
The Monitor Republican, pays go. 900
year and Il Is the best newspaper prop.
erty In Mexico. II gets no subsidy from
the government aud il Is supported by
the Conservative party. IL IA ono Of tho
Dost independent OF Journals In IT, al.
vcrtising mcthoda. II viii not talSo an
advertisement for any i4cd time. only
for NJ long rs Il Is convenient 10 publish
", and 1t will not make any reduction In
price for q number Of insertions. It has
four pages and sells for six cents a copy.
The editor OF The Rcpublicano Is now
and then too decided In his criticisms o.
the government, and like all other edit
9rs Ia Mexico no suddonly finds himself
srrostcd and given a few months or -
year or SOS imprisonment in tho peni-
ientiary. There Is practically no free
dom Of tho press In Mexico. Tho editor
Of a newspaper who Is obliged to dgn
bis name TO his matter never feels GER
tain rs TO whether he will not DO taken
10 Belein, Which Is tho namo OF the
Mexican pcnitontiary. There IL, In fact,
oorudoro OF this prison which Is devoted
10 newspaper editors and which goes by
the name OF Newspaper Row"
The most Of tho articles In Mexican
newspaper arc signed, aud tho paper hrs
10 print In every issue tho naino OF .
man who 81 responsible for those which
are not signed, and In case Of trouble as
10 tho unsigned articles this man goes to
prison. In some Of the newspaper offices
hero the attaches assume this rcsponsi.
bility turn about II Tempo or The
Times 81 tho organ Of tho Church party,
and IL often donounccs the government.
It's editors are frequently imprisoned,
but Il makes about $40 600 u year aud IL
AsNHAANlN llNHlA uNlAf Will
Tho leading government PAPER "a II
Universal. This Is subsidized by tho
government aud II gets 81 900 n month
from President Dlnz. Tho editor has
also been made n senator and no gets u
senator's salary. Tho Universal has
about fifteen editors TO every one H..
porter, and this is the proportion la most
Of the ollicea. Tho editorials arc chiefly
essays,
THE PAY or EpiToRs AND REroRrERs.
The Mexicans do not know what the
racy paragraph means. Tho first pape
Of every Mexican newspaper Is devoted
TO long windgd critIquos and common.
taries ON current events or history.
Tho only live papen that the city has
are two dailics published in English and
haironized by the English speaking peo-
pie OF Mexico. ono Of these Is The Two
Republics. which was established about
twenty-five years ago and which makes
about $4,000 yelr, The other English
paper Is known as Tho Anglo-Americnn.
All kinds % newspaper work IN Mexico
arc poorly paid. Editors got from SO
10 $9j q wool, In Mexican money, which
Is only from 500 10 els week In
American money The essay editors 60,
the highest salaries An TO Geographic
news, the papers seem TO think nothing
Of quoting from their contemporaries,
kilograms which have been used day
or two before. and an event three month,
old will be put In with rs much asur
nuea ua fh.Ytrt 40 lul svat l..,....,,..V
Time, In fact, Is Of no Importance IL
nny affair Of Mexican life, and Mother
the people nor the editors seem to car,
Us to whether the matter Is new or old
found newspapers In every one Of
tho big cities OF Mexico l visited
aud there IA no perfecting press In all
Mexico The presses In use are Of III,
OLD French style. made after pattern,
which have long since bocu abolished.
The amount paid for Geographic scryic,
in Mexico City ranges from & { 10 $2j pct
week per newspaper, and only the lead
ing newspapers pay anything for tele
grams As 10 newspaper correspond
euis, these are paid by getting % copy oil
the paper free, and the papers through
out are run ON the economical ground
The printers get from 25 10 81 cents pet
Thousand ems and good foreman 70
ceivcs salary Of $50 week. sucl
printers as are on SALARIES get from 90 {,
fi2 a week, and all Of these sums aro IN
Mexican money, which is worth only Z,
cents To the dollar, Frank q. Carpente
In New York World.