The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-10-17
PruSSian Rule i'm SleSWick.

tiles in Sleswick, writes the Copenha-
gen correspondent of the London Times,
is more arbitrary than ever; and things
have now come to such pass that, I'M
less redress is obtained, it will be i'm
possible for the Danish Government to
stand passively by and submit to the
insults and precautions of which its
subjects are made victims. OF the
facts recently brought before the pub
lie, / shall here mention some of the
hostility of the Prussian officials is
which invoke the fifth article of the
Prague Treaty: In the small town
Of Aabenraa, or Apenrade, as the Ger
mans prefer to call it, there has existed
for many years newspaper called the
Freja. Even in the most excited
periods of the national warfare, and
during the actual military occupation
Of the borough by the Prussians, this
offensive paper managed to live unhurt
and, thong h surrounded by suspicious
eyes it has never incuEred evan tho
slightest punishment The editor of
the Freia was assisted in his work by
his son, who had served in the Danish
Army, and now lives in his fathers
house as his guest and assistant. One
day he was summoned to the Landrath.
and received notice that within three
days he was to leave the Duchy. No
reason was alleged for this arbitrary
expulsion, but it was privately intimated
to him that his working on paper of
Danish tendencies made his further STAY
III his fathers house inadmissible. The
consequence was that the Freia could
not exist any longer as an independent
paper, and was amalgamated with the
D0nneriTke, journal published in the
nelghborlng town OF Handersly Scarce
y had the new amalgamated paper ap-
peared than its sub-editor, Mr.. Ben
netzen, who happened to be Danish
subject, was summoned in like manner
and ordered to leave the Duchy within
a week. In third Danish paper. the
Dybol Post, published i'll the Island of
Ais, the compositors were born Danes.
The police master sent for them and
ordered them to leave Immediately,
stating openly at the same time that if
they would cease to work in the office
of the paper advocating the Danish
cause they were perfectly free to- re-
mann. Again. IN consequence of the
Danish language-the only one under
stood by the common people-havinp
been prescribed from the divine serv-
ices, even i'll purely Danish parishes.
many members of the community are
prevented from hearing the word of
God, and this led to a movement for
getting Danish ministers to visit Sizes
wick and preach Danish in private con-
ventlcles. But the Prussian authorities
objected to such private church services.
and expelled the Danish ministers as
dangerous criminals. Some DAYS ago
q Danish vicar who had come down
from Jutland to visit his former parish
toner's was seized by gendarmes and
carried before the police master of the
district, who subjected him to a sharp
lnterrogatory, and only with many
cautions suffered him to continue his
tour. While this system of arbitrary
expulsion is being carried out against
the Danish subjects happening to live
within the Sleswick border, the regime
established by Prussia in the Danish
districts of the Duchy is making every
effort to Germanize the country In
public proclamations and official dec
laratlons, for which every opportunity
is sought, it is asserted that no part
of Sleswick will ever be returned
to Denmark; that its inhabi
tants are forever and irrevocably made
subjects of Prussia, and that he gov
eminent never intends to execute the
Treaty of Prague. Everything is
done to prescribe the Danish language
from church and school, the masters
and the Wears nominated in the purely
Danish districts being unable to speak
and understand the language of their
The names of towns
villages, rivers, and farms are German
lied so that the inhabitants cannot
recognize them. By order of the Pro-
vincial government no meeting. gath
erlng, or feast of the Danish Sleswickers
is allowed without the German flag
being exhibited in prominent place. I
and as this command is generally not
obeyed, the German gendarmes appear
with huge black white-red flag which
they place behind the Chairman. and
which is then alluded to by the party in
thelrprlvate conversations as aGessler's
bat.
KING WILLIAM is in better health now
han for ten years. He takes deep in
-erest III all affairs of State, and by no
bne no