The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-04-18


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ean NAV fec 10 yihd.cid0h Of their
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dcspoilefs af1 The people and iheir
rights Therefore 10 " determined 10
tf1ak this barrier downs ihis was
holly asserted on the noOr Of the
House. And It "a proposed to make
you, Democrats aud Conservatives,
support this Press 10 ihoir interests.
The mass Of their people are ignorant
and illiterate who DO not read news
papers and their papers cannot live
by their support, therefore yCU shall
supper, them.
l;ear what the Pilot says:
The effect Of the District Printing
hill will he TO establish and foster
twenty or moro reliable Republican
newspapers. That Is a sufficient ar
gument IN it, favor if there we're zone
other; but we continue, that it will
completely destroy at least twenty
noxious, and immoral Bourbon news
papers, of which we have no doubt
the Central Star will be one. We
think thai is enough good to I've re
CURED of ono law.
Last week we published an article
from the st. Louis Republican, upon
the necessity OF having a fearless, VI,
tramneled pre- g; we republish al ex-
tract from that article and invite par
ticular atte?tion to it, and war; the
people OF Mississippi to rally more
than they yer have done before t.
the support Of Il free, fearless, cut
spckcn,press which will not be gagged
by any Printing Bills, in Wind cation
of their Rights.
We do not go beyond the mark
when VIC say that a government like
this Of ours cannot exist without a
fearless and untrammeled press. 1t
is not only the most important ele-
ment Of republicanism-it is actually
the salvation of the Whole republican
system 1t is the salt which saves
the mass from rottenness-the light
which illumines til! plth tiirt uIh
t%bronging dangers to safety. Pain
full experience has shown that cor
ruption generates more rapidly under
popular government that under any
other. Unless that corruption is
detected and exposed it must sooner
or later devour the body polite
and to the press is assigned the task
of detection aud exposure. Through
that channel alone can the people
obtain reliable information concern.
ing the behavior of their rulers and
representatives. Close this channel,
or clog it with restrictions other
than those which now exist, and the
people would speedily find themselves
bound hand and foot and delivered
to the tender me2cies of an oil
Of INSCRIPTIONS demagogues
and shameless tyrants. And as the
press is tie best friend of the peo-
pie, so the people are the best friends
of the press. United they stand, dir
vided they fall I; and as for those
gentlemen who are deviSing ways
and means TO gag American Journal
ism, 'let the CALLED jade wince-om
wi theirs are unwrIng,"