The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-01-30
MEXICAN
How an American Reporter Got q News
paper Into Trouble.

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for black bass from the same skif the
other day.
"Hawl hawI hawp laughed Dave,
as his wriukled old face lighted I'D like
a big lantern. Yes, / had a sit on a
daily paper in the City of Mexico about
ten years ago, and it was a rare, expe.
rience."
ANY objections to stating particu-
larsR"
None at all. Hawl hawl hawl But
i5 was funnyI 1 was on one of my
trips around the globe and got fnan-
cially busted in the City of Mexico. 1
can speak and write Spanish, and it
occurred to me that 1 might get a sit
on one of the dailies.
Il dropped in on the editor of the
government organ and stated my case
and he took me on the local depart.
ment. | looked over the files to see
how some local matters had run and
could find only about half a column a
day and most of that was three or four
days old when printed. 1 thought it a
good chance for Yankee enterprise and
started in to hustle. When 1 got around
to the Office again l had two columns
of live matter ready to work up. The
editor wanted to know what I had
found, and I showed him my bundle
and expected a word of praise. In
stead of being pleased, he m~ournfully
said:
my dear sir, all this happened last
night or to day. 1t is too fresh. 1t
would excite our readers. And, be-
sides, it would be unfair to our contem-
poraries to publish these things first ,
I'm the batch I had a fatal accident.
A drunken Mexican had fallen off his
mule and broken his neck.
"'That is sad, very sad" said the
editor, but we cannot publish it. The
shock would be too great on our read
ers. In two weeks they can read it
with placidity. 1 know his brother,
and l know the brother wouldn't like
to see the sad account in the paper
HERES a case Of a man stabbed in
a fight
THAT is not so sad, but the police
have not notified me yet. Besides, he
may die. 1t is better to wait a week
or so and see if he dies
"'But don't you want any live newsi'
"'Oh, yes. You had best go and
see my friend, Senior Don -. He
generally has news-important news.
He will gladly give you all he can, and
it will be pleasing to the public and
perfectly reliable
Il posted off to see his friend" con
tinued Dave, as he reeled in his line to
see if the bait was all right. HE was
a high stopper and a Jim dandy. When
1 told him what I wanted, he cried out:
ut is splendid 1 shall give you
great news! 1t is news of the army,
and therefore of the government. and
to please all readers. Ny good friend
Capt. A has resigned his commits
sion and will enter into business
"'When did he resignf
"'Six weeks agol You are the first
to have It'll 1t will be great news!'
That's the way things went for
three or four days, and then Igot hold
of something about one of the govern
ment officials being short in his &C
counts. I had my facts solid and
ripped him up the back, and somehow
or other the item passed in and was
published. Haw! that hawT'
"What resulted3"
"The paper hadn't been out an hour
when the police swooped down upon us
and waltzed US all off to jail. When l
say all l mean every man Jack con-
nected with the paper, from editor in
chief down to press feeders and Office
boy. It was an attack on the govern
ment, you see, and being in the gov
eminent organ it waS almost a shoot,
able ofense.
II suspect they all put it on to me,
and as a matter of fact l owned up to
it, but they kept the crowd in Jail for
three months, just the same. 1 don't
know how long they intended to keep
me. but soon after the others were re-
leased our minister interfered in my
behalf, and when I got out I made
tracks for the United States, and you
bet YOUR bottom dollar 1 neve tried
for another newspaper sit in that
country I"-N Y. Herald.
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