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LITERARY MANIFESTO
Our duty is to keep the universe thoroughly posted concerning murders and street fighters, and balls, and theaters, and pack-trains, and churches, and lectures, and school-houses, and city military affairs, and highway robberies, and Bible societies, and hay-wagons, and the thousand other things which it is in the province of local reporters to keep track of and magnify into undue importance for the instruction of the readers of a great daily newspaper.
[reprinted in Mark Twain: A Biography, Albert Bigelow Paine, (Harper & Brothers, 1912), p. 228.
