To the Editor of the "Nonru-Caixa Darcy News."
Sim,—In your issue yesterday morning there appears an articlounder the heading of "An Attempt to Bridle the Native Press," snd I am not a bit surprised that steps are taken to investigate the doings of the ver-na cular Press. I beg to humbly suggest that: it would be more appropriate. substitute the word "restrain" for the word "bridle." Tam an extensive reader of native newspapers and I think I can give you some idea of what they are. With the exception of a very fow, the majority of them are scarcely worth the paper they are printed-on. " Of late years they have sprung up like mushrooms, edited by the so-called Chinese scholars whose characters cannot bear, for five minutes, the searching light of Police Court examination, and yet they pose themselves as champions of truth, of virtue, and of public opinion. They never dare to attack native officials high or low as long as they are in office, but only worry the small fry or those holding positions of no importance; even then, in most instances, they only touch the private and not the public side of their lives. The rich merchants, directors of companies, and men of standing in mercantile circles are the true "Eldorados" to the editors and reporters. They publish as a rale some family scandal-real, imaginary, or from hearsay, winding up, witha paragraph something as follows "There are many other misdeeds and scandalous doings of the person mentioned in this article which we will publish as soon as we gather the particulars;" or something like this: We refrain for the present
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