Arizona republican., 1906-12-05
THE RUDIMENTS
 OF JOURNALISM
What Pictures in Newspapers Are and What is Sometimes Regarded as News.

The Evening Outcast sees in one of
 The Republicans cartoons a knock at Phoenix. Thus, once more. it is
 shown that the Evening Outcast's
 ideas of journalism and the use of the editorial column are similar to certain old woman's ideas of con- ducting hotel in Kansas. A dissatis- fled and prOfane guest said she kepl the hotel like hell. That's the way the Evening Outcast is run.
 It's pretty hard on The Republican
 tO be put into the position of explain ing things to the Evening Outcast for the edification of it. This is a task though that often falls to reputable newspapers to try to educate such papers as the Evening Outcast to the end that they may be in the future less conspicuous asses.
 For few people in every cOmmu-
 nity. that is. few minimizing and
 ignorant believe that a newspaper is q newspaper; to them the Billville
 Bugle and the New York Tribune or
 Sun are all one. except that they have
 different headings. Such people may imagine that the Evening Outcast is
 really a newspaper. That being a con-
 dition. The Republican and all other
 newspapers. much against their win. are compelled to try now and then %
 raise such Journals as the Evening Outcast by teaching them such things as they may be capable of understand ing.
 Therefore, the Evening Outcast is | informed that a cartoon is not a pho | .r. ,.f., graving. That picture Of Uncle Sam in the objectionable cartoon by MT. Hurst was not taken from real life and that water upon which he seemed ! to gaze was not real. wet water. Noc was Phoenix at the bottom of it. Car tOons never accurately depict cOndi-
 tions. Sometimes the cartoon is an | exaggeration of conditions and some times the conditions are wholly imag- mary In this case, the cartoon de- | scribed state of moisture in this vi- cinity. but it was not really so moist
 as the cartoon made 1t appear to be l That's all under the cartoon lesson for the Evening Outcast today.
 The Republican throws in a hint
 on another subject without any addi- tional charge to the Evening Outcasf. That is. that whenever the congress of the United States assemblies in either the long or the short session the pres ident communicates to. or technically speaking. transmits to the congress a document which is also technically 7 called a message" containing his views on the state of the republic: that
 is. the United States. This is always a more or less interesting document and newspaper readers some years ago formed the habit of reading it. Ther,.
 was such a message printed in all the afternoon newspapers of the United States yesterday and all the morning papers this morning. The Evening Outcast ought to have printed it us news.
 Next year about this time there will
 be another message and if the Even- ing Outcast doesn't forget this lesson
 it may print the message to the Six tieth congress. It's good practice any
 way. But it oughtn't to have missed yesterdays message for it may never
 have another chance. Some of the members of the legislature are talking about protecting journalism like the law and medicine and some other trades and professions are protected
 by preventing idiots and incompetents from engaging in them.