Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-14
Prussian Rule i'm SleSWick.

The behavior of the Prussian author
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, IN
less redress is obtained, it will be i'm
possible for the Danish Government to
standapassively by and submit to the
insults and precautions of which it's
subjects are made victims. OF the
facts recently brought before the pub
lie, [ shall here mention some of the
MOST glaring. I promise that the
hostility of the Prussian officials is
especially directed against the papers
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 a newspaper called the
Freia. 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, though surrounded by suspicious
eyes, it has never incurred even the
slightest punishment. The editor of
the Freia was assisted in his work by
his son, who had served Ia 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 a paper of
Danish tendencies made his further stay
in his fathers house inadmissible. The
consequence was that the Freia could
not exist any longer as an independent
paper, and was amalgamated with the
Da2aneUirke, a journal published in the
neighboring town of Handersly Scarce
Y had the new amalgamated paper ap-
peared than it's 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 in 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-
main. Again, in consequence of the
Danish language-the only one under
stood by the common people-having
been prescribed from the divine serv-
ices, even In 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-
venticles. 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
interrogatory, 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 proclanations and official dec
larations, for which every opportunity
is sought, it is asserted that no part
of Sleswick will ever be returned
to Denmark that it's inhabi-
tants are forever and irreyocably 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