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are exempt from the crucial fire. And there is no appeal.
If the censor chance to be an educated person and consistent
in his severity, the editor may somehow steer his craft
between rocks and shallows with possible safety, but if, as
often is the case, he is an ignoramus without education,
mutilating every article with his clumsy red pencil, then
the patience of the editor is indeed put to a severe test. If
he refuses to print such a mutilated article, then he risks
serious consequences for such obstinacy. If, by dint of
exceptional skill in writing between the lines, he succeeds
in getting an article passed which is afterwards considered
to have “a dangerous influence” or a “tendency to be
hurtful,” his paper may run the risk of being entirely
suppressed,—a common enough episode in Siberian journalism.
It is no wonder then, under such circumstances, that in
all Siberia there are only about half-a-dozen newspapers,
and that all have a hard struggle for existence in more
senses than one. It is consequently with no little sympathy
and admiration that one reads such very well-written
productions (even from a western standpoint) as the “Stepnoi
Krai,” “Sibirskaya Zhisn” (Siberian Life) and
“Vostotschnoye Obozrenye” (Eastern Review), in which sometimes,
if you know how to read between the lines, you will
perchance discover criticisms of matters which the press of
European Russia dares not even touch upon.
With great curiosity I now studied the contents of my
new purchases, for in a way they gave me a better and
more correct idea of Siberian life than I could otherwise
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