text:  An honest and thorough life of Baron Stein is in fact in the present slavish state of the Prussian political press an impossibility; for the sturdy old Freiherr was a declared enemy of the whole race of red-tapists and other officials of the quill who since the peace have maintained a practical monopoly of public business in Prussia and who in fact keep the monarch's conscience and tie his hands much more effectually than chancellor or parliament does in Great Britain