Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1896-08-01
NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS.
Sixty Eight of Them are Printed in Foreign
Language.


newspapers and periodicals in other Ian.
guages than the English. All told, &C.
cording to the newspaper directories,
there are sixty eight journals and maya.
zines printed in eleven different Ian.
guages-German, Hebrew, Buddish or
Jargon) Spanish, Italian, Hungarian
Bohemian, Scandinavian, French, Sla.
vonic, Greek ard Armenian. Over In
Brooklyn there are papers In several
other languages, Polish among them.
Twenty-seven of the foreign-tongued
publications of New York are printed in
German, and as most New Workers
know, some of the German papers print
ed on this island are of wide circulation
New York Zeitung, for instance Others,
like the Volks zeitung, every morning
and the Vorwaerts, the Saturday edition
OF the same paper, which represents the
socialists, are chiefly of a propaganda
nature. Still others, like the German
American Butchers Journal, are pub
lished IN the interest of labor organi-
cation. Chess papers and those devoted
to the interests of persons who come
from some particular part OF the Father
land are rather plentiful among the
German publications of New York also,
as the following titles will show:
Amerikanisch Schweitzer Zeitung,
printed in German for the S yiss; Ba-
deische Landes Zeitung, a Saturday
paper; BelletristicheS Journal, literary
weekly; Der Pfaeizer in Amerika, a
weekly; the Hessen- Darmsteader Zei-
tung, the Hessische Blaetter, the Medi-
cinische de Monats- Schrift, Der Haus-
doktur, Der Auswanderer and Deutsche
in Amerika, Der Techniker, etc.
Next in number to the German papers
come those printed in Hebrew charac-
tiers. Of these there are thirteen sep
arate publications, though there are
more titles, the same as with the Ger
man papers, there being in several in
stances weekly under one title and
dailv under another issued from the
same office. Some of these papers are
religious in character, some are plain
newspapers and several are socialist in
their tendency. Among the latest
named may be mentioned Das Abend-
Blatt, published every morning except
Sunday, and Die Arbeiter, the Sunday
edition of the same paper
Some of the Hebrew newspapers, like
some of the German, have strong po-
litical leanings, and many of them are
independent, but generally support one
or the other of the two great parties
when presidential campaign is raging.
After the Hebrew papers come the
Spanish journals, of which there are
nine, all monthly. It would seem at
first thought surprising that there
should be more Spanish than Italian
publications here, since there are many
more Italian-speaking residents of New
York than Spanish-speaking. But this
seeming inconsistency is understood
when 1t Is remembered that the Span
ish.speaking residents are, as rule,
much better educated than those who
hail from Italy. Few of the Spanish
blood are to be found in New York who
are of lower grade than that of skilled
workmen, most of them being cigar
max ers, and of more than average in
telligence, while most of the Italians
are unskilled laborers, many of whom
cannot read or write. OF course, as
most Spanish-speaking New Workers
are Cubans, most of the Spanish publ
cati3ns favor the cause of liberty on the
Pearl of the Antilles, but Las Nove-
dades, which is, in way, the official
organ of the Spanish govern ment in
America, is bitter in is opposition to
the insurgents.
There are five Italian newspaper
Christoforo Colombo, daily and weekly
II Progress, Italo-Americano, daily and
Sunday; L'Aroldo Italiano, semi.week-
ly; L'Italiano Americana, issued every
Thursday Ordinarily these papers
confine themselves to news that will
most likely interest their editors COM
patriots, without much reference to
American politics, but when there is a
lively political campaign on they are
prone to become violently partisan. In
1892 one of the Italian dailies was for
Harrison and the other for Cleveland,
and they both printed charges about
the opposition that were much bitterer
than any printed by any of the papers
printed in English.
| OF Hungarian publications there are
three = Amerikai Namzetor, weekly
Magyar Hirado, weekly, and Amerikai
Kepes Lapok, monthly; besides, there
is a Sunday publication in German, re-
ioicing in the title Oestereichisch I'm
garische zeitung, that sometimes prints
a portion of its matter in Hungarian.
There are also three Bohemian papers
l-Hias Lidu, a daily, with a Sunday
edition, entitled Nedeline Hilas Lfdu,
and a weekly capt:oned Tydni Hilas