Ebook: The Wayward Pressman

"As newspapers only serve to excite the masses to subvert the present order of things and the editors concerned are composed of the dregs of the literary classes, no good can be served by the continuation of such dangerous instruments, and we hereby command the entire suppression and sealing up of all newspapers published within the Empire, while the editors connected with them arc to be arrested and punished with the utmost rigor of the law." The Empress Dowager of China, 1898 (From Pearl Buck's prize essay, written at Cornell in 1925: "China and the West." Unpublished.)