The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-18
Chicago Newspapers Left.

Notwithstanding the success of the
newspapers of Chicago in having spe-
cial train run for their benefit at the ex-
perse of the people of this country, in
order to push their issues into the
Northwest beyond their legitimate ter
ritOry, they are unable to cover the
news field. The reader, outside Of Cir
Gle extending a short distance west Of
that city for his information, will miss
important news every day of his life
While no one is ignorant of this who
examines any issue of Chicago paper
circulated or sold in the Northwest, it
is only when some great event happens
at late hour that the complete fail
ure of the Chicago press to serve terri
tory that is utterly beyond its control
is demonstrated in such startling fash
ion IS it was on Wednesday last
The Chicago papers of that date,
which were delivered in st. Paul on
Wednesday afternoon, did not, with a
single exception. contain a line of men
ton of the destruction of the Maine.
One paper got out a special edition
with a simple bulletin of the fact and
crowded it through in time. The read
ers OF the Chicago papers as a whole,
who got their copies from the fast mail
service maintained for Chicago's ben
eft, would not, if they had no access
to other sources of information, have
known until Thursday afternoon that
the most startling event in a quarter of
century in this country had occurred
on Tuesday night In order to get their
papers on the train even after it has
been held two hours for their special
benefit, the Chicago journals have to
hurry onto their presses early editions
made up Of such scraps of news as have
come to hand by midnight All the late
news, which is generally the most i'm
portant, must be kept for their later
and fuller editions that are delivered
to the people of Chicago and its imme
date vicinity
So the news of the destruction of
the Maine that was known in st. Paul
offices between 1870 and o'clock finds
no place in the Chicago papers that
purport to have been printed on
Wednesday morning This incident
proves concIusively the complete
worthlessness of the Chicago papers
outside of their own field. Beyond it
they are mere pirates, attempting to
impose upon their patrons with al
legged morning papers that are practi-
cally little more than reprints of the
evening editions Of the day before.
Everybody sees it in such a conspicu-
Gus instance as the failure to notify
their readers of the terrible event in
the harbor Of Havana. What happened
on that day, however, happens with
reference to other news as important,
perhaps, though less startling, every
day in the year
Chicago paper which is put to
press in time to be placed upon the
fast mail for the Northwest is not, and
cannot be until time and space have
been annihilated, newspaper or a
competitor in a news sense with the
dailies of st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The late news is always wanting from
It's columns; and even the munificence
of the federal government, in furnish
ing special transportation at the pub
lie expense, cannot enable it to give the
news if it does not get it in time.
The utter breakdown of this system
attic attempt to serve a territory where
their service must always be ridicu-
lousy incomplete ought to warn the
public of the worthlessness, as a news
prcvider, of the Chicago daily in the
Northwestern field. 1t never could
compete with the Northwestern daily.