Show from the saturday evening post SKETCHES OF TRAVEL THE AUSTRIAN PRESS the americal Ame lical I 1 is is a newspaper loving animal and is almost p prepared to adopt as a measure of tile the refinement and civilization of a nation natio 11 the extent to which tile newspapers are read 1 in I i it t though not believing in the plenary inspiration a tion of editors and reporters either in the old or new world and not holding the newspaper read reader er to be a sage T I 1 still look upon the press as one of the most efficient agencies for good or evil evi I 1 of the present time it was not therefore an uninteresting problem to investigate how far the austrian public or at least that part of it concentrated in vienna are provided with this important element of mental d dt et I 1 must admit that I 1 was agreeably surer sed to t 0 find it so well supplied the press of vienna 1 ii in one sense at least a 4 peoples press that is its cheapness briar brings it within tile the reach of almost every citizen much inch as we boast of our penny papers papers the viennese dailies have lave reached a still more moderate price for twenty krent or I 1 about seventeen cents monthly one obtains a paper which gives him all the political news of the day lay and tile city novelties with great falness ful ness the former itis true are not reported with the deta 1 l with which they may be found in the larger newspapers and in these they lack the prolixity of an ail american journal but the attentive reader can acquire thereby a general idea of the current history of his time he finds few original articles of any importance but he may read in extracts the kaleidoscopic leaders of the 11 times and the self complaisant braggadocio bragg adocia of the 11 eur 11 under a government like that of au tria it is apparent that the press is not conducted on oil the same principles as in america I 1 will not maintain that the editor in america speaks b his opinion incon much more freely than here whether the censorship ll 11 is in the hands cofone of one twenty or twenty millions is a matter of little consequence to the writer suspension ty by government and mobbing by the public are estt equally ally potent in putting injunctions upon pens pen but at the people in america have a voice in the press which they do not have in austria criticism upon the policy of the government is of course a thing not to be found in its columns advice administered in the gentlest doses doxie bay may be met with within the lost last two or three months since the war question quest lio has assumed its present form and since the sonn official I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 j i 1 i sheet has spoken anti russian or at least moderately in favor of the most vital interests of the people and monarchy the other pope papers rs have blown furious urious blasts against the autocrat but cramped I 1 IS as is the press of austria and lacking as it does so many of those elements of freedom which make j the american press with all its timeserving time serving and 1 popularity seeking a most valuable educational instrumentality it is still doing good service it familiarizes the people with the important questions of the day and in those facts are ser sermons in oil it I 1 requires no long discussion to show one that the old question or of freedom and despotism which the reaction had thought safely buried is now involved in the strife going on and every one oae sees i in the atie antagonist 1 of rusia not turkey hut but liberalism every one from the highest to the i lowest reads his newspaper and feels bound to have what lie he thinks are his own opi opinions njoni upon the questions of the day in the coffee houses in 1 I I 1 the city and in thi the drinking houses in the c country aitho the newspaper esthe is the indispensable artiel article e of comfort and in it the latter die alie boors may be seen do de 1 I 1 bating with as much earnestness its is a cabinet of I 1 I 1 ministers nini stars on oil tile position n or of affairs one thing which tho the revolution of 1848 produced and ana I 1 which conversation cannot smother is the interest I 1 of all eisses cl ases in iiii public affers aff sirs and people who previously lad no higher thought than of a loaf of I 1 bread a mug of beer a change of the moon loov or perhaps it church procession sion now buzy buy themselves I 1 with tile concerns of ministers ol of foreign and i domestic affairs that their notions nations are often crude and absurd one may inay venture to suppose but when one has been working in tile the treadmill I 1 of 11 old use and wont since his eyes first opened I 1 0 to o the light lie he may be pardoned if his first steps in in the free air are u little staggering I 1 but tile cheapness of new newspapers spa P ers is is one thins I 1 their general on another 1 stan ling the moderate price there is nothing here 1 like tho the circulation cai olour of our penny I 1 doubt whether the die most widely diffused of the vien copies daily but those who do not read at their homes read in coffee houses and eating saloons the most in or t humble dining room must two or three papers even 11 borrowing the newspaper or I 1 pass passing ilig it from hand to hand is not looked upon as aba the e eighth 19 lith mortis sin nor is he looked upon as an all erred irredeemable old fogy who is seen with a yesterdays teri ter lays days sheet in his hand reading it with as much interest us if it were fresh from the crebs I 1 have said that the viennese press was cheaper than the american if one looks at the size as a standard standal stan daid d of comparison I 1 must of course ret retract but it would be hardly safe to do so A cracker contains more substance than an 11 souffle but it is not so well dilated though the german papers rarely give us traders ol of more than a column or a column and a half small quarto I 1 am not sure that their contents are less instructive than the diffuse disquisitions which one finds elsewhere arid and in europe there are not dot so many railway and steamboat accidents exten ex conflagrations ac ac to lo fit fili up vacant space one day in the week we ao ae a o e obliged to dispense with our papers 11 indeed inquires a sabbi i tarlan 11 do the file viennese respect tile the S sabbath so much that they issue no papers paper on oil that day 11 no it is ie the dy day after upon which we must breakfast news less the viennese pr printer anter be in two at once and as lie must have his amusement on oil sunday lie cannot print I 1 his newspaper the american printer is more m ore tous slid and can call go to church and observe e his sabbath Sabbat li according to the most approved canons 1 of orthodoxy orthodox and stil issue his paper on oil mond ay iy I 1 j morning |