Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — The Press of Russia. [ARTICLE]

The Press of Russia.

The greater grievances of 'Russian editors—the three warnings, the suppression for three or six months, flue stopjKige of the sale of single oojw-s and th** prohibition to insert advertisements for a sjienfiiNl familiar to the general public *.but h*sa is kiiown, , says the London (ih>br, oMhe minor | n-guhtionx of the preaa code, which ’ hamper so seriously the progress of a pr.. N.-ml iM WKpap< r. Thn«, a provincial aiir-et, after to-otovhig olfi -inl appro- : »»' of its programme, eanfiot deviate in th* aligbtrat from the line laid down with.mt subjecting itaelf to heavy fines. A daily paper, far instance, unfurnished

license wito, tennot maKflthe fifcgesfc i K (Some papers must not insert novels; others, again, Mt MvftjfiifeAefVhey pjblish i censor ; sv®ile - nynts ay jfjf wk Petersburg or .Moscow newspapers, and must print he. thing origin J of .their own. , I 9 itMEting a provincial paper oufft ft fewprivileges who havion employed Witfie'aafl' have to* be made'" known to but none of these, from edito# f to can exercise thefr functions until-they have received ■mmemn permission, inscribed on official paper ana sighed ftnd sealed by himself. > t " ■ ’