English Translation

" 36 - 21 - ze Pause des Ministrys Szélov in the years 1900 to 1902 with each year rained more trials. For example, there were l898 only : 3, 1903-four, 1905-six, 1906-fourteen, 1907-eight. A speciality of the writing direction of the "Slovensky Obzor" was that it recorded business summary' the monthly balance of the political processes. The treasury noticed it and also imposed a process on the direction of writing because of the fclgenden dry data and the short purely factual interpretation. The ten-year record (l898-908) of the political and judicial persecutions is as follows: 86 trials, 452 convicted persons, sentenced to 78 years and a fine of 33,523 K; furthermore, to pay at least three times as much court costs. The position of our magazines is evident from the process statistics of the years l907 and 1908: Slovenský Týždenník (Slow.Tageszeitung) ..... 13 Trials Ludové Noviny (Volksblatt)......................... 14 11 Národnie Novinie (National Newspaper) ... 8 " Pokrck Progress)....... 2 " Hlas Ludu (Voice of the People) (soz.)... 2 11 Napred (Forward) (soz............ 2 11 Národný Hlásnik (National Gazette) +7 " Robotbická Noviny (Worker's Newspaper) 4 1 Slovenský Obzór (Slovak Circumstances). 1 Prozess .Zvolenske Novinie (Altschler Zeitung) , 1 11 Černoknaznik (The Witch Master) ......... T "1 Obzor (Economic Journal) 1 " In short, not a single national and Slovak-written journal escaped persecution. - By administrative and judicial means the Magyars prevented the political and public work of the Slovaks. The courts actually served only the only positive purpose, that . they gave the defendants and the defenders the opportunity to speak out, big political speeches held well-known politicians, such as Dr. Štefanovič, Pavel Mudroň, Dr. Julius Markovič and others. before the judgment or before the court senate, It is true that even in Bohemia the judicial prosecution was great. What the Czech patriots may have suffered more for their people in the dungeons, is greater and more painful with regard to the smaller number of Slovak intellectuals and the lower civilization of the people themselves.