Nuhou, Volume I, Number 16, 17 February 1874 — They Want to Muzzle the Press. [ARTICLE]

They Want to Muzzle the Press.

They who arc casticg the blame upon everjbody but them'seivcs for the recent disasti*oas and dipgracefu! diBturbance, want us to be kept quiet s and shut up, and not to be al!owed to sayanj- : thing {£ esciting." Would to God, that tbej, theFe ■Ministci l ial Rip Yan Winkles, conld have becn waked up aml escited a little bit. Thej havc not yet \vaked up to īlie proper appreciation of thc duties of a government vrhich should trol and dircct society,so thatas theHon.D.Kaukaha vcry jnst]y eaid on the day of proiogation, that there \vas no governmcnt, tind had becn none sincc thc com ! monccment of thc interregnum on the dcath of fcamelrameha V., up to the day of thc Court lloiisc riot. Bnt we feel the strong and liopo, that with our new King we have a government that is agovernment. His Majesty declares that the press in Hawaii is free; and He will "\visely trust to the efSciency of llis governmcnt to| control auy undue activity, that may be enge!ndcrcd by too frcc a discussion. Īlurrnh ! for k T\ing of Frccmen, who fears no honcst critici|ni, howevcr bolB and outspokcn. Let those who|feav it !iide their disgracod political heads for ever|more.