Little Falls herald., 1905-04-14
PUBDlCOWNBRSHIP COLUMN \
Conducted by the New Era
Club Of the town of Gran
ite, Morrison County, Mimi.
FREE AMERICA.

FREE AMERICA
lone thousand policemen imprisoned
people In their homes and made them
close the doors and windows while
President Roosevelt rode from his
hotel to banquet hall in New York.
Wherever curious head protruded
from window along the line of
march 1t was warned back inside an
der penalty of arrest. And this is the
United States, the land of the free,
not Russia nor Servia.''
Lawrence. Kan.. Feb. 20, 1905.
Editor Query Box, Kansas City
World.
Dear Sir: The above clipping cut
from last Saturdays issue of the
Kansas City Daily World. There was
q democrat and republican present
when I read it. Both denounced it
as an infamous lie, remarking that no
truthful paper would publish a like
article. I would like to know through
the Query column Of The World if it
is true. I always have been and am
now a great admirer of The World,
Yours truly,
D. P. WALLG.
945 Kentucky st., Lawrence, Kan.
Answer: The statements contained
in the editorial paragraph are true,
according to the best information OBJ
tainabie. Ali of the great news
gathering associations, without a
single exception. sent out the same
account, and it was printed in almoet
every newspaper in the land. The
correspondents stated in their stories
that policemen were stationed on the
fire escapes of buildings and that they
compelled people along the line of
march to remain indoors and to close
the doors and windows Of their homes
On the following day the New York
World entered an editorial protest
against this unwarranted infringe
ment on the rights of the individual.
1t is impossible to believe that the
great news distributing agencies of
the country entered into ccllusion
and agreed to spread lie broadcast
over the land.-K. c.. World.
LIBERTY THAT COUNTS.
In oce of bis best poems Tennyson
has celebrated the freedom of the
land 'where girt with friends or foes
a man may speak the thing he will. "
The liberty FIR men to say what they
pleased was once considered the most
precious gift of freedom. But such
conception of liberty no longer satis-
fes.
People have discovered that free
speech, while essential to freedom,
does not of itself produce perfect hap
piness. It does man little good to
be able to say what be pleases if he is
prevented from earning living OF
if his earnings are taken away from
him in the shape Of exrortionate
charges for the necessaries of life.
A man cast away on desert island
might talk all he pleased. ami still
die OF hunger
So all the forms Of freedom which
are the heritage of the American
people viii! count or little unless the,
are used for tbs purpose of securing
equality of opportunity to all citizen
and Of preventing the strong from
depressing the weak. Political liber
ty has been obtained. The strugol'
must now be for industrial freedom. -
Kansas City Times.
Mrs. Florence Kelley, in a recen
magazine article, graphically de
scribes the life of thousands of youn.
boys who work in the glass bottl
factories of New. Jersey, Pennsylvania
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois 1t is sail
that manv boys are sent to thes
factories from the orphan asylum OF
reaching the age of 10 and that the!
practically become the poems of th
blowers for whom they work. Tn
pitifnlly little children were found q
work at . O'Clock in the morning. o.
going out into the bleak, cold winte
morning from the heat and glare o
the glass ovens the boys went t
drink the cheap drinks sold, jus
across the street from the works. AL
the boys used tobacco, usually chew
ing it. They were stunted, illiterate
profane, and obscene-wrecked il
body and MIND. The sharp contras
between the heat of the glass oven
and the frost of the winter mornin'
produces rheumatism and affections o
the throat. and lungs, so that man.
of the boys die before reaching tb
age of apprenticeship, from diseas
due directly to the circumstances at
tending their work and more common
elsewhere among adults than anon
children.
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