Show RIGHTS AND DUTIES th alie I 1 occasion referred to in our local columns causes us to reflect pome some little on the extent to which the freedom odthe of alio press and anti the imia immunity unity not to tay ay impi impunity mity if its agents ought to bo be gu guarde ardd td one of the pits indelibly en ell graven inthe in the conscience of every anglo Saxon in is the libarty lib aly of speech which lie liberty of the press inasmuch as in ulusc beve days af civilization the tile written and print printed 1 I word far outweighs the 66 spoken syllables in im and influence the political rights of a zeft nation t on tile social privileges of individuals indeed the of the athole community depend upon ilic li reservation of ti that fat press prem through the medium n of 01 the newspaper of the tire day lay the ac se campli of the tile pat past are maintained and the hopes ov 0 f the future secured in this sacred duty the organs of public opinion have a claim on in the tire respect and protection of the tire public for it id is only by independent att attitude etude that the tile judgment of a journal is both valuable and valid hence we want ne no censors appointed by an auto A emasculate late I 1 the 19 critic govern aunt to thoughts and eup s albe utterances of men neither do we want to JO we bre the rum an e index catir logue of books prohibited imitated on oil talis continent the freedom of which waa was decreed by providence in the th beginning but at the same time while the tile pre press pres s is is hedged about by the tile of independence it truth and modera moderation tiou t lionor honor and righteousness should be le ita its corner stones A newspaper is is to give the news not to make it to report what hail has in realia re alit what the vic slanderous ou tongue of 0 it ii bainy has spit in the gutter where journalistic geig most inot ally allF grovel if there is anything more than the independence of the tile press in a republic it elthe sanctity V of personal character and athe the an violable purity or of ilio the domestic 0 circle A roan man who wields the pen has a two edged weapon in his bis hand and he be should be extremely careful how lie man agea it tt the e reportorial pen dipped in tho the veau of arday wound the one who handles it more than the one at which the poison of ca calumny is |