The writer for the Empire addresses 'the danger incurred by telling the truth in public journals'. The writer states: 'As the law now stands in this country a journalist who would respond to the call of public duty, whenever injustice or incapacity in those who are entrusted with important functions merits castigation, must often find himself exposed to serious loss ... In this country the law is more unfavourable to journalists than in England ... a reproach would be removed from the colony, and the injustice of which journalists have reason to complain, would be much abated, if our law were conformed to that of England.'
The editorial concludes with the hope that 'the interest of the people in the preservation of the freedom of the Press will lead to the establishment of that freedom upon a more satisfactory basis.'
