Morning journal and courier., 1883-11-09
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Friday November 9, 1883.
RUSSIAN oENsORsHIP.

There are few countries where newspapers
 have so much to contend with ss in Russia.
 The Censor committee is very vigilant and issues great many circulars telling the news- papers what they cannot do. Two of the lat
 est circulars issued by the committee forbid
 all reference to the fact of M. Tchitcherin,
 the late Mayor of Moscow, accused of liberal speechmsking during the coronation, having been since made an honorary member of the city of Moscow, and all the remarks on the police at the burial of Turgeneff.
 One of the Nihilist papers has just publish
 ed long and very interesting list of circulars sent out by the censors. and from this list one may learn much about the policy of the Russian government. This list covers the two years 1881 and 1882. Among the direc. tions of 1881 were the following No inde- pendent comments on the trial of the assas sins of the Czar. Everything to be taken from the Official Gazette. Nothing of what passes in the Universities to be published. Great prudence to be used in mentioning the coup d'etat in Bulgaria. The press permitted to sympathizs with the Bulgarian coup q d'etat. No rumors and talk to be published on the illness of Ministers of War and the Interior Nothing to be published on the programme of Count Loris Melikoff. Nothing oz chang es in high government circles. No mention to be made of resolutions voted by municipal councils and territorial assemblies without special permission. Rumors of changes in Ministry of Public Instruction not to be re- produced. Scholastic institutions must not be turned into an arena of public discussion. No criticism on the measures of the gov- ernment in general. ..The activity of the Commission for carrying out the redemption of the land taxes to be mentioned with extreme prudence. No ex- citing rumors as to Irelations between land lords and peasants to be mentioned. Moth ing about Lutoritchesky affair. In this year an order was issued that newspapers must take great care in citing the emperor's title. This order was issued in consequence of a mistake by newspaper which referred to a subscription for 8 monument for Alexander III instead Of Alexander II. The editor of this paper WAS imprisoned for month.
 In the year 1882 among the orders were the following: Nothing to be published on new educational project. Any more violent articles against the Minister of Ways and Communications in regard to the terrible railroad accident on the Moscow-Kursk line will be vigorously punished. No com ments on the expulsion of "a certain pupil from one of the gymnasis. Nothing about disorders in University of Kazsn. Nothing about misunderstanding between Honorary Tutor Neidherdt and Doctor Kvatz. Noth- ing about the Holy League. Nothing about the arrest of Student Siminoff for striking the Curator of the Kazan district. Nothing on any political arrests.
 These orders illustrate very clearly the terrible condition of affairs in Russia They indicate also the tremendous power and use- fitness of free press. The people in this country are often inclined to think that the press is too free, and those who would inter- fere with the rights of the people would be glad to have the power to treat it as the Rus sian press is treated. Fortunately, however, there is no danger that the newspapers of Ihis country will lose their freedom. Some of them will continue to be too free, ss they have been in the past, but as 8 whole they will not abuse their freedom, but will con- ,inue to use it for the benefit of the people.