PRESS AND SPEAKER
MR. HOLMAN'S STATEMENT STRONG EXCEPTION TAKEN TO IT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED ABOUT.
By Telegraph.-l'reK Association.— Copyright. (Received September 10, 10.40 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The morning papers publish leaders in which strong exception is taken to Mr. Holman's statement that if the daily press is out on a campaign to belittle" Parliament, then the Government will have to face the position, and face it cheerfully. ' The Herald claims that the statement contains more than a suspicion of a threat, and that there is a great deal of pure bluff and electioneering intrigue in all this. "The Government is concerned beforu everything about muzzling the press when an appeal must be made 'to the country. To muzzle the press is to hit the public, and ib bound to result in substantial retaliation." The Daily Telegraph says: "Mr. Holman might have used a less unfortunate word than 'belittlement ' What he probablj- means is that he Ls out against criticism of the Ministry. It appears he only differs from Mr. Willis in desiring to exercise a censorship which he regarded as veeted in himself."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 62, 10 September 1912, Page 7
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