The Arizona champion., 1891-02-14
MEXICAN NEWSPAPERS.
An Example of the Enterprise
 Displayed.
EXTRAORDINARY IDEAS 0F JOURNALISM.
Reading the Sunday Paper on Satur.
 day Evening.
'El Nacional y Tiempo de mananaI"

where the UleS are Sdlu IO FOOSU LOW OI nights from sheer laziness. Have you anything like it in your so called enter prising New York?
 It sort of knocks out the stranger in this land of pulque and tortillas to find that he can read, or rather could read if he under stood Spanish, Sundays paper while he reclines at ease in big armchair on Satur- day evening It takes all the conceit out of him, and the next day he doesn't carry his head near so high. It is only after he has mastered the language that his old time confidence returns, and the American eagle flaps his wings as Justify as ever to his eyes; for when he is able to read to- morrow's paper today he finds that it is really today's paper of yesterday, or day before yesterday, or week before last
 NO CONCEPTION OF NEWS.
 To be sure the paper is dated tomorrow, but if he finds any news of today in it he puts it down as an exceptional case, and when night after night, from O clock in the evening until 3 clock in the morning, he hears the cry, "El Nacionai Tiempo de mananar' he comments on it in the darkness with a plentiful sprinkling of swear words, for the Mexican newsboy's cry is exceptionally shrill and penetrating, and makes sleep stranger to the nervous mans eyes. Queer institution is the newspaper here in this land of queer insti- tutions. The word newspaper is really a libel on the genuine article, as we know. Newspaper men have absolutely no con ception of news, and the much coveted "beat' of New York journalism is an un- known factor in Mexico.
 And the people seemed to be perfectly i contented with this sort of thing. 1 have seen The Monitor RepublicanO, the chief daily paper of the republic, come out, time after time, without a single item of original news. Everything in its news columns was copied from its local con temporaries and full credit was given. This is the practice among all the papers. They make up their local news by taking the few original items that appear in the columns of their competitors. By going carefully through the columns of the city exchanges they manage to fill the space given to ''news,n so called, and as each paper is enabled to get at least an item or two of something fresh every day, they manage between them to keep the pot boiling and fill from three to five col umnS. Frequently I have seen an item travelling about for two or three weeks, going from paper to paper as the editors happened to find it. That sounds very funny, doesn't it? Just imagine the cry of 'chestnutsl'' that would soar heaven ward if anything of the kind was at tempted in your city. It's all a matter of education, however, and after awhile you learn not to mind it-in fact, you rather like it. do. It saves an awful amount of wear on the nerves, and you need only read one paper to get absoutely all the news that has been printed, if you only wait long enough. All you require is pa tience, and you somehow or other accu- mulate wonderful stock of it here after short residence.
 THE ENTERPRISE DISPLAYED.
 About the funniest iIIustration-that is funny to you New Workers, I mean-of the enterprise displayed by the papers here in laying the news before their readers, occurred some time ago, when Mexico eX- perienced the severest earthquake shocks of which there is any record Houses were shaken down in different parts of the city, the aqueduct was broken, cutting off the water supply, the great cathedral was cracked, bridges were ruined and the people were almost scared to death This occurred at 11:30 o'clock on @ Saturday night. In your city you newspaper people would have worked your reporters nearly to death and strained the nerves of every body in the establishment for the purpose of getting full and complete story of the earthquake and the damage in Sunday mornings paper. Here the Sunday papers had been printed many hours before, and such thing as an extra or anything of the kind for Sunday was not even dreamed of As there are no Monday papers-nO- body works on Sunday except few store keepers-it was Tuesdays papers that were looked to for the news.
 On Tuesday Fl Monitor Republcano informed its eXpectant readers in about twelve lines, that on Saturday night there had been very severe earthquake which had done much damage. Its staff of re- porters was busily at work Investigating the damage, and in day or two the paper would lay it's complete account before the public. And it did on Thursday morning, just five days after the shock. This paper has made great fortune for its propri- etor; its advertising rates are enormous, and the advertising department is more arbitrarily conducted than that of the most independent journal in America. It will print no cuts of any kind or at any price. It will accept no advertise ment for stipulated days or for consecu- tive insertions. The best that you can do, if you want to advertise in it's columns, is to secure a contract for given number of insertions, the dates to be decided by the publishers without consulting you. And this only by paying in advance for all the insertions, some of which may not be given for months afterward. Not a line of paid matter can be secured in the reading columns for love or money. Hun dreds of dollars of advertisements are lost daily because the publisher will not increase the size of his paper, which is a four page sheet. Its circulation is about 4,O0O, and no effort has ever been made to increase it. Like every other newspaper God save the mark-in this city and throughout the republic, Fl Monitor Re publcano closes its forms at 6 o'clock in the evening"
 Think of that, you overworked news slaves of the place known as Gods coun- try!'-City Of Mexico Cor. New York Press.
 Those BOb-Tailed Dress Coats.
 Berty-Don't you think I'm brave to