The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-11
Correspondence St. Paul Globe.

Correspondence St. Paul Globe
LONDON, Aug. Silt is in many ways
unfortunate that America gets most Of
her cable news from one center and by
one channel. London has a decided ad-
vantage in her point of view by being
central and collecting what little news
she prints from all points directly, in
stead of having it collected for her
through one channel and dished up
with whatever color happens to be pre-
Valent In that channel at the time 1t
IS sent.
No American newspaper or news as
sociation has yet established the news
of the world from the various news
centers and having it transmitted to
America with the utmost freedom from
any influence other than that prevail
ing at it's source OF course, such a
system would be a very expensive one.
especially If in each news center was
stationed a trained newspaper CORE
spo1dent, and up to the present there
has hardly been sufficient demand for
foreign news to warrant more than
at present is supplied through London.
But the fact remains that British
newspapers are the main source of all
the news cabled to America and in such
circumstances ii is inevitable that not
cnly is the news largely British, but
British Interpretation certainly has its
influence.
The paper read with the most care by
all London correspondents of American
newspapers, is unQuestionably the Lon
don Times. This Is largely because Of
the staff of correspondents in all parts
Of the world, and also because Of the
supposed influence of the papers
editorials in Conservative circles here
But nobody will dispute for an instant
that the Times is the most bgoted of
all Of LOndOn's press, and its alleged
news columns the most favored with
editorial sentiment based entirely on
British interests" AS understood by
the papers editor. The Times has not
one correspondent in the whole lot
regularly on its staff, who can send
purely a news story Of facts, free from
q purely British Interpretation.
THE TRUTH PLAINLY TOLD.
The American newspaper man is
trained at home to write facts as he
finds them. His paper wants the truth
as far as it is possible to obtain It,
and in news story Of facts the day
Is fast going by for soaring into the
realm of "f1eecy Clouds" pale moons"
"once upon a time" and all that sort Of
thing.
The English papers "feecy clouds"
invariably give way to British inter-
ests," Of which I have already written
at some length in these letters. The
editor leaves romaucing to those who
make a business Of this phase Of writ
ing, and confines his efforts to shaping
the affairs Of the universe according to
his conception of what the foreign office
IS doing or should do.
Meanwhile the foreign office is the
only center whose news about the gov
ernments of the world is actually reli-
able and sufficient to warrant anv
opinion whatever-and the foreign Of
flee doesn't seem to think 1t suits it's
purpose to be interviewed It Is only
when the editor goes so far as to be a
menace to relations existing or negotia-
tiOns being carried on with foreign
powers that the government intimates
that the editor had better climb down
This intimatiOn is not necessarily in
writing, or even a direct command but
more often comes by way Of a sugges-
ton, which leads the editor quickly to
arrive at the conclusion that every
thing possible has been accomplished