The Arizona sentinel., 1890-10-25


 Independcns writers l-aro Heen Ahol-
 ish~d-C 1HaiaI seatistics-" h. Russia is
 AanIoss New usi'aperlesa--N 'tri'ir'rS-
 cornpIetc stagnai.en t!.-catcn tie Russian press. II i3 rot bec2cce nova days there are no cb!c writers in I,CSs.a. The trouble is that the present mn. ter cf the interior. CCCLt D. Tolstoi, 5 GUc- ceeaei in ;;loi;sbing al the uo,Cd .-crna}s cVnaUCtel ly talented CuG lGCc-l-Ctnt ''1'itcTs. 1Ec list Cf tie I2ri01.ce rviH catious that have rocn sUprrcssl. t.,l.rg the last six years is far more int, TX. ug und raIranle than all Inc papers lcs. i.v- inr. Now there is 10 o..r.nsLl, q ut Russian journals, no 1r5al..sa ,..a rC.e cf that domestic stirring ---r rt.s. l.-. Il in the days gene l,y Used t3.o I-.-s.. ;-- C~ct attention in q r;.l,s Cf tAe sle..t empire
 Tie suspended Gees z, Yc'.7 -~4 left fully U. C Q s--; C.-5,-.- F-4...D--- .-.y paper 10 1neir taste. fer I.cre ot item C.le tO GcltI;d thc coEsJitCtCuI form Cf tEe government Cs Ele GClps L.d. !n t1e sixties, wien tbe Cz3T-i. Gcratcr tried lo free tEc lre-E ircIa tle ron grip of tie censor. N'cf,clss Tc1c-nvslevsl,y started -ic Cor eril,tiGry EeyicE.. monthly in
 
 the first ti1ce . CoCSc.oI-L.UusJy CTitic:Se thc government IdCcSIlls Il is impos- sihlc ir l:1;s country even Co imagine what $ '-hirlwiGd ol public opiu:cn ka raised as bl Ina2.c Int even the liber- stcr could poI long stand such freedom of s'ieCUSsiou and Ichcrnyshcv>ky was sent Io ;oibeTi; tur seven years and kept there Fer Iftcln But the martyrolugy of the Russian editors and writers is tCC long 10 'c si-tn i.cr-
 The nnclter Uf periodicals issued iu Iiu9s1. GnlUuhtS to a iittle over eco As Inc population of the czar's empire is 10J ,0oO, 900, it is evident then that il takes ID ,00O Russian subjects to support one periodical, whereas in the United States every 4.UUO souls rapport sGi:c pubEca- l;on.
 RUssIA's 400 PERIODICALS.
 Putting aside 200 periodicals published in other than the Russian language. the eOO Russian periodicals are classified as follows; Daily, 55; weekly. S5; monthly. t1; several times per week, 5G: several times Der year l33. Nearly one half the . Russian periodicals are published in the capital of the empire, St. Petersburg, and one third in seven Of the largest towns i-A wing for the rest of the great empire Jess
 
 there are many towns of 10000. 20.0W or even 10000 inhabitants which have nc6 ., periodical oG any kind The whole Cf Siberia, with {, 000, eco of population. has only two newspapers and li-uCntLlv of a eecgrap phie:il society.
 According 10 the official etat+stics fur Idshed by Inc post department last year in Russia tlcre passed through the mail about =, 5ou, eco copies of Russian peri odicils Cl II sorts, and 4,5C0, CJG ct Tor tign periodicals were received in Russia Thus II appears that there is not for each subject fl the cZar during q year even a single copy of cry periodical, IlsS:an or foreign.
 W. is the Russian rryas @ insignili- cant as to its volume? Some rcv it i. be. cause fully 50 per cent. of lhe Russians gre ilnterate But il the cGucatod and schooled Russians would read newspaIcrs ;-s freely a. Americans GO, then in Russia there would Le ,, 600 periodicals instead of 600. There are other causes that make the cz2r's country almost newSnaperlCss. In the first place, thuTe is Do noii;ical lie at all, and the industrial Ike there is ln is CLbryotic state. Russians have rot so much news to exchange ELS the people in other countries have. h the SSCtIA ll@uCt, illt GNiBCfGI.C GONETniGGEG systematically and most strenucusIy op- poses the growth of the press. Cz2rs have always been aware that writers. ever though ip the clutches of censOrs cnI under political supervision, are apt to think for themselves, tO argue and to criticise. Tins they develop in them selves and in their readers the qualities most decidedly objectionable in Imperial subjects. Every job printer in Iiussia must procure police certificate uf good character and furnish bonds, and every publisher, besides these qualifications, must niai!ltain all imperial inspector at iiiS own establishment
 Iii Russia every editor of prominence must pass a part oi L.s life iu siIsgn II We add 10 that the fatal ministerial warn inPs, prohibition Of inserting advertise ments. heavy fines anu suspension. we shall wonder not that there are 50 few periodicals. but that aMo2g Russians there are nlcn ana Wel..el ready to ontci the career cf journalist. which rank, ,n danger next ,C t-2t ci ccGspi-ator. - aIos.