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Al aZus-1g SIDE q Journalism n Ger
many cones ~ llghg ~hen . nesspspes
= co11sca ss1 - TIE 6ioveraus1t foE pe-
1tlczl reasous, saws the As~ York Sun.
Tat - II i sA1slnz 70 people she
have seea tie ~ay tas tang ls done
tie o@ners or Publishers u the c0RGs-
Gated paper dont look - tie fanny
SIDE Il It. TIE first cory Of every news
paper mgst be seat u the stats An.
NAL, or p1bl-c prosec1 Tor, who IS tAs
censor q the press. Herr Sta&ts Anwalt,
With the press laws before him. careful.
j. reads the paper While be sips IA
mug q beer. HIS eye suddenly lights
On = passage which criticises s6yersely y
al action or remark % the Emperor. He
reads IL through. and Feres3s il, and 30
gins % get mad
''Donnersetter noch ein ma, he ssyS
THAI must be stopped
He hurriedly draws blue-pencil line
around the paragraph and steps Up C
his telephone. He asks central % con.
meet him with the chief 0t police. When
this functionzry Is 81 the other end Of
the phone, Mr.. Stats Await orders
him 70 send a squad OF police e
the printer OF the paper, forbid
its further publication, and seize al
the copies thereof be can lay his hands
on. The chief answers "J2wohl," and
repeats the order 70 his assistant. The
assistant turns 70 his ''sub" and trans
mits 1t 10 HIN, who in turn tells his
sub" what is wanted, and finally, after
long delay, several policemen start for
the officer OF the paper in hired iscre.
In Germany, when the police are en-.
gagged in any special work, they do not
ride IN ordinary street-cars, nor do they
walk, but they must hire a hacre or a
coach. This adds secrecy and dignity to
the affair When the policemen enter
the publication ONCE they intimidate
the frightened foreman into handing
over al the copies he has in the place.
These are taken downstairs and thrown
into the hacre. II there are very many
Of them, another facre is called. The
printers must take the Objectionable
matter from the forms, and the police
make ''pi" of it.
Usually these officers bear a warrant
for the arrest Of the editor. The Ger
man editor has been there before, how
ever, and on the editorial page of most
papers, right under the terms 10 sub
scribers, he keeps name, say johann
Schmidt, responsible editor" And when
there is any arresting 70 be done the po-
lice must wreak their vengeance on
Herr Schmidt, who in mQst cases is some
petty writer on the paper. When he is
IN jail for writing something which he
didn't write the paper pays him a good
salary and looks after his family. The
liberal newspapers and socialistic pub
hcations always keep couple Of respon-
sible editors on tap, and when number
one is in the lookup the name of number
two takes his place in the paper until,
through some trouble with the police,
number three begins his inning. This
functionary is called sitz redakteur, or
seat editor. The seat refers TO his So
journ in dungeon. The penalty of tho
law increases with each olfense, and
after the unfortunate editor has sat sew
eral times a new one is appointed, who
starts in with the mildest punishment
for the first OfTense.
The real editor usually gets wind OF
the intended visit OF the police and Sc
cretes several copies Of the publication.
When they arrive, and he has read their
letter OF authority, he hands over the
rest OF the papers, which join their COM
panions in the fiacre. Tie officers read
To him the warrant for his arrest. When
they finish the editor saws:
"Weu, meine Herren, I am only a
salaried writer here. There stands tho
responsible editor"
The police scowl at the speaker and
march off tho responsible editor. 1t
frequently happens that the newspaper
has already been sent out and distrib-
uted throughout the city, il which case
the police must travel around and get
hold Of all the copies they can. They
visit every reading room and cafe in the
city, and cut che obnoxious paragraph
out from tho paper on the files. In
Vienna there are seven hundred cafes,
and one can imagine what a Job it is
70 visit each one and look for the un-
fortunate newspaper.
While the police are going the rounds
Of the city tho editor is preparing A
second edition emitting the article
which provoked the wrath of the Staats
Anwalt. In the center Of the space this
omission naturally creates the word
"Confscated7 is usually inserted. A
Berlin paper, from which a speech had
been taken out, read in the second
edition:
Tho speaker mounted the platform,
and began in a clear voice,
"Confscated
In Russia publications are conhscated
with greater regularity than they are
issued. At the frontier towns the for
eign newspaper mail is isregularly opened
and read. When the officials come
across something which they think
would lower Russia In the estimation of
the reader, TO say nothing Of political
utterances. they have very effective
method OF doing away with il. A roller.
made FOR the purpose, is dipped in
printers ink and carefully rubbed over
the paragraph, after which the paper is /
wrapped up and sent on % its address.
Many Russian reader Of German and
American publications has received his
paper bearing the black mark n the
officials note that some one person il
receiving such forbidden
they report the fact 20 s.
Petersburg. and the person stands an
1nenvisble show for SIBERIA.