Show bowee OF THE PRESS the force of tho press has long been a recognized factor of chiv libation liza tion where it holds the greatest awny and enjoyer the greatest liber lief there the people are the most educated and refined on the other hand where the press is not given its free scope ns an educator there we may find despotism still rules tho people and ignorance hangs over them like a ark somber cloud tike for example loussia and turkey these two countries have a rigid censorship to investigate all matter previous to its publication every issue of a newspaper is first sent to the censor who examines the same cuts out such as may lot chance to meet his narrow mind alters the phraseology and such arbitrary rule that the very life seems squeezed out of the journalistic field an editor cannot make a new suggestion with regard to the government ern ment or if ho does against the orders of the censor his paper will at once be stopped hois not allowed to publish any mishaps to the administration tra tion such as would tend to show that it is in anyway losing power or influence in short the government edits his paper for him so to speak and he merely does the work A plucky paper published in turkey in eFrench th and the english language called the oriental express is often interfered with by the censure as it calls the censor taking advantage of his limited knowledge of foreign languages and it is no uncommon thing to see tho express with hero a column gone and there a paragraph the work of the censor these blank spaces and disconnected sentences are not allowed to appear in a bussian newspaper there the work of this officer must bo closed up in some way tho siberian was last year suspended by the government because it to show the work of the censor by leaving out what he had cut out the result of this work is that the subjects of these despotic governments are kept in ignorance and thereby they are ruled with ease the laboring classes that are now battling against the tyranny of aristocracy and capital are those who live in the countries tho press is free |