The Archive · 1893

THE GOVERNMENT'S LASH

from time to time, The curious thing about the matter is this, suspension in no way corrects the trouble; the injudicious or inimical article speeds on ite way, working what ill it may, suspension necessarily following and not preceding abusive und unpleasantly outspoken ing. For corrective purposes suspen-is practically valueless; its only value in in its punitive character. Beiore the Inst echoes of the debate in the Upper House had entirely died away the Nippon, one of the foremost and best of the Tokio daily papers, had set up

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