Hawaii Holomua, Volume I, Number 49, 14 November 1893 — ZOLA ON JOUNALISM. [ARTICLE]

ZOLA ON JOUNALISM.

Power of TIip Eneli'ih Press Diip to inonjmitj. Emile Zola, tbe French novelist. who recentlv visited London, delivered an address at a meetins of the Iustitnte of Journalists, held at the Mansion House, the ollieial residence of the Lord 3fayor of London. The subject of his address was “Anonymitv in Jonrnalisra.’’ He said, araong other thmgs, that the British press owed its power and unquestionable authority to anonvmity. Politically the British newspaper existed onh' to satisfy the opinion of its own party. It has beeu thus made by a pnblie whieh has not been broken into fragraents by a revolution. It waa ditferent in France, where the fever of iudividnality carried away everythiug. TheFreuch. were always seeking to establish a Messiah, and indnlged in eestacies of devotion to the new god of the raoment. Speakiug of the elaim made iu sorae quarters that the signing of artieles in newspapers insnred their snecess, 31. Zola said that he was well aware of the evils of a system thut had dastroyed the authority of the press, completed the descent to a mere personal brawl. The spectacle presented was somethiug heartrending. It must, he declared, convey a frightful iiupression abroad. This distinguished Frenchman then went on to admit that in polities the journal whieh stands for a set of principles without individuality i.-*Jur superior to the personal journul whose articles are sigued aud represent only ōne muu’s opinion. ‘*It is in ; this way that anonymity inspires i respect,” says Zola. **It is not J such or snch editor that is takeu into aeeonnl; it is the c<illective opiuion of the paper that connts. —(5. F. BnUdin.)