二十一条
In the articles entitled "Big Loan Incident" () and "The Twenty-One Demands" (), Huang described Yuan's alleged secret deals with foreign powers and betrayal of the nation's interest for his own sake. Huang once described the status of the government as "idealess, dead-ended and hopeless" (). However, what most upset Huang was the threat to the freedom of the press that he felt Yuan represented. Under Yuan, journalists were prohibited to attend political meetings () and the censorship of newspapers also became the custody of the Police Authority ().