The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-02-28

of the Authorities-News and Fiction.
A List of Journals.
The Office Of The Messagero. Of Rome, is
situated in the Via del Buffalo, and here a cor
respondent called by appointment the other
day upon the editor aud proprietor, Sig
Luigi Cesana, in order TO receive an Italian
editors frank opinion on the newspaper press
Of his country.
"You come apropos," said Sig. Cessna;
I'VE have Just been seized" and he smiled
c1oerily. as il an honor had just been con-
lerred upon him and not a serious loss IN
nicted. you see," he continued every
| morning we have to deliver n copy of the
! paper to the procuratore del re, the censor.
| In todays issue we bad memorial article Oh
tue Paris commune, simply and purely his
torica as you can see for yOurself"-and he
s,ealthily drew a last remaining copy from
lis desls-"and at 7.3D this morning the pc
lice entered, stating that the issue had been
| suppressed and ordering me to yield up the
whole edition and 10 distribute the type In
their presence Some papers had already
gone out, but they will seize Them at the book
| stalls or snatch them out Of your hands As
you walk along the streets. They have done
this TO me many times before.
STUPID REPREssIvE MEASURES.
"But these people are rs stupid as their re-
pressive measures! You can form no idea Of
choir imbecity. The law of 1913 is the law
or coniiscatIon under which they seize-ot
lsiS making no allowance for the improve
nients i'm machinery since then, which almost
makes newspaper printing another art. 50
they order me TO distribute the type evidently
thinking that we print from the type-so
utterly ignorant are they Of the business with
which they are brought into daily contact.
or course, We use a Marioni machine, as they
can see, and print from plates cast from a
paper mache mold that has been taken from
tho type II they were 10 ask for our plates
0r mold. that would be another thing; but
they think in looking after the type they have
done the business OF course, tonight shall
print of a new edition of the suppressed
paper. and IN two days time il will be dis
patched free 10 my friends in the provinces
mo doubt they will make me some little
present in retuml-by which time the au-
Lorities will have forgotten all about the
incident and my views and history will have
circulated
As the divine attributes and achievements
AMI liberty u the English are too ideal-en-
tirey beyond our hope to emulate or even
approach in the present generatlon-we as
pire only ~ form our model on the French
press. for the Italians have a great affection
and admiration for everything French. Our
kilograms and our feuiIletons chiefly come
from France by arrangement with editors
and authors As regards kilograms, we oil
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about g a month But il is practically in
tine governments hands, and there Is conse-
guemtly no independence How could there
De. with the government exercising rs power,
when anything unpalatabe TO it passes over
the wires, either 10 burke the telegram alto
ecther or 10 delay it twenty-f -four hours orso
TN the message is OF no danger 10 them and Of
no use to us, The special telegraph CORE
sp0nlence which our papers boast rarely in
cludes foreign dispatches, thougha few papers
can plume themselyes Oh telegraphc cOmmu-
nication with "A Paris newspaper But our
people are not educated up 10, nor interested
IN. foreign events, except 50 far as directly
affects themselves
SOME EXCELLENT PAPERS.
Our people demand feuilietons' they will
have them, aud the paper that wants 10 sue
ceed must have them. We have not even the
excuse Of the French editor that in introducing
fiction acknowledged fiction, mean into his
news sheet he is encouraging native literary
talent / regret to say that We have no such
talent at present Our feuilletOns are bought
! from French editors or authors, and, whether
new or not, are paid for at the rate Of go u
| novel which will run through sixty seventy
or eighty numbers
"rhe despotlsm under which We labor has
not been able to prevent the growth Of some
excellent papers, as Italian papers go Milan,
the real literary and journalistic center Of
Italy has its Sec0lo, with its 100000 crcula-
ton, "a paper illustrated with portraits and
views in the same manner and by the same
process as The Pail Mall Gazette. Besides
this It publishes from time 10 time elaborate
illustrated supplements gratis to It's subscrl
bers. Then there is Tho PuugolO, The C0uiere
della Sera 10000, and L'ltalla $4,000, the
last conducted ia the American style Genoa
ha, The Epoco 10000, democratic paper;
Naples The Piccolo, Tue Pung0lo and several
others of considerable age, and Turin the
well known Gazzetta del Popolo. But 1t Is
the same cry with them all-rcprcssion, otii-
cial aud social which afllicts them.
"ln my own sphere | am trying remedy
by making my business a cooperative affair
giving my writers a share in the profits in
addition TO a salary Not until an editor and
his staff can vie with minister and his cabi-
net in independence, riches, and popular es-
teem-eyen power, as Is often the case in
England and sometimes in France-can we
compel tho respect Of society; and not until
we purge our statute books Of injustice and
anomaly, and educate our masses, can the
+ Italian press be worthy 10 compete with the
press OF northwestern Europe Foreign
Letter
Foreign Publishers and Native Authors.
when Gen. Low Wallace was last in Lon
don he went to the publishing house Of
Wame * Co. and bought a copy Of ben
Hurn Tie examined IL for minute, and
then asked 20 see tho head OF the firm, whose
attention lac called T. certain alterations
made IN England without any authority from
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