And its Futility To the Editor of the NortH-Cura Dany News"
Sim.—What is more futile than the censorship of printed matter? Once it is learned (as it invariably is) that a certain number of a paper or magazine has been confiscated, the public will move heaven and earth to find out what it was all about, many of them people who might otherwise have given the offending article no more than a cursory glance. The censor should at times really be thanked rather than blamed for he unfailingly manages to call particular attention to, and emphasize the importance of the very things he wishes to conceal Shanghai, Nov. 22.
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