Sir Hedley I.e Bas has, of course, exactly the same
rights. It may be remembered that when Cobden was running his campaign for Free Trade and against the Corn Laws, he paid for the insertion of articles in country newspaper; which would not otherwise have accepted the articles. It was, however, plain enough that the articles were paid for as advertisements. The same sort of thing happens nowadays in all election campaigns. One Party advertises its views in the organs of the other Party. It is open to any news- paper to refuse to accept an advertisement, and the responsibility rests, as we have said, with the editor or proprietor of the newspaper and with nobody else. It remains to add that Sir Hedley Le Baa has served a writ on the Associated Newspapers, Ltd., in connexion with the articles in the Daily Mail and the Evening News.
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