Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-12
AMERICAN LIBERTY.
IN GOTHAM IT FINDS SUPPORTERS
ONLY UPON THE EAST SIDE.
Meeting In Cooper tnion to prt.3s,.G
Against Deportation of Johu E1r-
ner und IontIncatS OF Metropoiits.u
rn.crs Thereon.

,la,iu Turner. an English labor or
c,,il;u"r and social rcf0rIupr. While ad
Dressing Il meeting in New York CITY
oct. -, was arrested by federal officers
tIfou II warrant issued BY Secretary OF
Commerce Cortriyn,I and taken iii.le
lEI;cGN to Ellis ista:Id The ncAl lioi.n
,.i.ft. he was taken before II board ot
inquiry aud tried without COUNSEL OF
witnesses in a secret session The
board rrlmrted that Turner WINS an
.an;,rrllist' and had been here less
,ii.n tire" years. and Secretary Cor
,.Ivuu ordered that Ii. tt departed to
Eu.lHnd
Guincrs case. has been taken ,ip by
8 ts,.lsin,r Of lilb"ri> loving rjiiz,i,s of
'.i.rc' Speech league. All :tlEu.aI Viii
be taken ~ the supreme court nt iln.
United St:iics by tl,, league. Clarence.
y i,HrroW being c!insrti :is chief c0tii
81 to prescott ti,r uI;ittef GH l'n. "ven
-. q! Dec :; II i!iiSe meeting MS held
III CuuI,cr uiui, to protest against fire
fa4-rs'l.tior "t certain pro, :~lGlS= ef
IL iiililit-i u tt''ii ia tiiltt'l W nv u
Hernnr VII lilHrkrd for .in,ru!t;lIion
Among tire annouucnd Vice ;,r,.~it"nts
ef 10 iil"eiin@ S'.r.t.= of Wiluiu how
ever were; not i'"s'S'.Ht &=or" Felix
Adler Henry George, CHHt',s 4
&ta,r. Carl Schurz, Ernest Crosby
I,eY Leighton Mitiia:ns aud Rev
Ttoimas G lI&il DISCUSSING ths meet
:. uudrr tire c9IIt;on "il;rHr VI" For.
gottrn:" tUa,l" the following eo;uln"uts:
'.'rllrr" is somcthiu" Nr3tt2 With the
ainercan people AaHrieaus OF the
older stock They are nn longer quick
to perceive and keen 10 resent inva-
sions Of the rights for Which their fore
fathers sought.
"On" Of the speakers at the Cooper
Union meeting on Thursday night said
he feared that Americans have forgot
ten what liberty means. He called at
tention to the significant absence from
the meeting of the clergy, leading mer.
chants, Judges. the mayor, the patriotic
sons and daughters of this, that and
tother-tlle representatives, of that ele
ment of society which calls itself bet
ter aud claims Il monopoly of virtue
and patriotism and he charged them
all with being rr"r"ant to the faith of
their fathers
"The indictment WAS severe. but it
was q true bill. Except Il few earnest
men and women on the platform. there
was hardly /, sprinklng of old fasl,
ioncd Americans in the hall. As one
of the morning papers said with half
sneer. the audience eswas recruited
mainly from the lower east side. Per
hapS that is why most Of them deemed
it safe to report the meeting falsely
and to assert in stupid headlines that
il was n demonstration in defense. f..
vor and support of anarchists and
anarchy.
at was such meeting as might
l have been held in New York more than
'Nl century ago to protest against the
Nilen and sedition laws or in BoStol
before that to d"nollnce the tyranny
of an English king. 1t was called in
defense OF the fundamental rights OF
the American citizen. the rights of free
thought free speech and public trial
by Judge aud jury under the forms and
safeguards of the common law.
III was a meeting called to protest
against and demand the repeal Of a
law so invasive of those American
rights as to wiring from the indignant
John De Witt Warner this startling
challenge to authority: we will re-
sist to the death our government. or
any other government that attempts
to penaliZe free thought and free
speech Ivy enforcing such law as this.
"'The meeting was not attended by
the people who go to the opera and the
hors" show. nor even by those who
make up the audiences at municipal
reform sorees and political pink teas.
II was reported inadcuuately by most
papers, stupidity by several, falsely and
Indignantly by one and timilly by ia"
biggest braggart of the lot. II was so
treated by the press because the Amer
lean press has reason to know that the
American people have chloroformed
their national conscience and do not
care a rap for the ideas to which their
forefathers pledged their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor.
"The audience was recruited mainly
from the lower east side, and in that
fact may be found hope for the future
of the republic. 1t was an earnest.
alert. intelligent audience. Of much
quicker, kcener intelligence than could
have been found that night in any 9th
! er place Of public gathering in all New
York. 1t knew what ideas such names
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