English Translation

18a - 26 - Today it is no longer necessary to argue about how far these discards were objectively justified and how far they were accomplished in the course of the six years that the "voice" came out. The meaning of the "voice" was that it worked on the young generation, on the development of journalists and thus on the political-social agitation in the people and prepared the ground for the energetic work of the Czech-Slovak fraternization. The supporters of the 'voice' did not produce many artistic works. Although Kukučin belonged to the circles of the "Detvan" members, he was no longer in Slovakia when the "Voice" was founded.Hviezdoslav sympathized with us, but on these works the "voice" had no major influence. Alone- Krasko (J.Botte), Franz Vutruba and by the youngest Gregor - ... Tajovský stood out, But in a scientific, above all sociological and political-Jcurnalist relationship, the "voice" followers created new works. With the beginning of the new century, the political structure of the individual parties began with us. Milan Hodža tried to publish a cheap Kreu- zahlblatt already in the year, l900. In 1904 he founded the "Slovak weekly paper", which became popular with the broad strata due to its form and, above all, its peasant content and was one of the most popular Slovak magazines before the war. The Social Democrats founded a monthly publication, later the "Worker's Newspaper" and other magazines. In the year 1898 the Slovaks had a total of 2l magazines, the most important of which were: "National Newspaper" (Národnie Noviny), "Slovak Circumstances" (Slovenské Pohlady) and the popular weekly "National Gazette" (Narodný Hlásnik). All of these magazines had only a national-Slo-Wakish character and did not serve any social or economic party. In the year 1909 the number of magazines grew already to 4l, of which 8 were political, 4 literary, 3 economic, many local papers, but to which the Magyar government published 7. America, too, had a significant impact on Slovakia through its Journa istik and its national revivalal work. - 27 -