Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-24
WHAT IS TRUE FREEDOM OF SPEECH
 FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND OF PRESS,

appalling number of lives lost by
 railroad employees for lack of the life
 saving inventions deemed necessary by the government, but which the railroads each year supplicate the government to release them from the legal compulsion of using just a few
 more years. Then the slaughter goes on. But the rights of humanity can not be always suppressed by one class, therefore there are here and there, / periodicals that are aroused and are
 engaged in telling the terrible story of the dangerous occupations In Germany, because the working class
 has tremendous political party of its own, the socialist party, with
 daily papers and men in the reich stag fighting for the welfare of the
 working class, and they not only have laws compelling employers to use
 safety appliances on their machinery but they have also compulsory in surance. Germany pays It's injur- ed, superannuated and their depend ents something like $126,000,O00 per year.
 In America one needs only to see the armless and eyeless gate tenders all along the line of railroads from
 here to the coast to know that all the
 pensions Americas victims get Is a
 chance to work long hours for poor pay, on the same road for which they
 became maimed and the widows and children of the dead miners are in evidence all through the mining
 states, their abject poverty testifying that they are not pensioners either
 of the government or the mine own CTS.
 | In an article called Pensioners of
 Peace" by William Hard in October number of Everybody's Magazine, the
 factory inspector of Illinois, Edgar T. Davies, is quoted as saying that in the year 1906 in the factories of H. linots hundred men were killed or
 crippled for life by one little shop institution called the set-screw. "The
 set-screw stands up from the surface
 of rapidly revolving shafts and as it turns catches dangerously at hands and clothes It is no unchangeable
 provision of nature. For thirty-flve cents," says MT Davies, "this danger
 device could be recast into safety
 device. For thirty-five cents the pro- tecting tops of the set-screw could be
 sunk flush with the rest of the
 whirling surface of the shaft, and
 then no sleeve could be entangled by it; no human body could be swung and thrown by 1t; no woman could
 be widowed by it."
 It Is most gratifying to note that the cry from the workers is at last
 being heard above the din of mislead-
 CTS who prate about the danger of the press or speech going beyond the limit placed by the Almighty upon
 it." and even the people of the Unit
 ed States of America are awakening
 to the fact that the freedom to tell the truth is still constitutional right in this country. This months s September magazines are giving their
 readers a chance to know the truth
 about socialism. Out of nine maga-
 zines examined by the committee there were articles either directly discussing socialism or socialistic operations. Among the magazines being the American, with an article | by Ernest Poole on "Harnessing So ,, cialism, the Worlds Work, "Socialis-
 tic Activities;" by John Martin, and an editorial Will England surren- der to Socialism" "The Contempo- rary Review" an article by H. c.
 Wells on My Socialism; the Allan tic Monthly one on Social Recon struction," by John Martin. The
 Review of Reviews has two, "The Socialist Party in the Campaign" by Robert Hunter. and an editorial on
 Socialists in This Years Politics" !" The Forum has an article on "The Socialist Movement in England" by
 Anne G. Porritt The Yale Review takes up the discussion of Socialism
 and Science" and others just as im-
 portant In the world of science and literature discuss this philosophy
 with tolerance and fairness. This is
 but sign of the evolution that is going on, and as we have remarked
 before no one man. or set of men can obstruct the progress of humanity toward freedom. It Is DO question for discussion in the mind of the slave
 whether freedom Is a desirable con- dition it is settled question in his mind and to the wage-workers who have been slaves 20 long. subject to the will of a master-class. in society, the question that worries them is not how they win maintain q free press. free speech and free assembIase in nonna 0nw oP6af of noc1n<v kuf hnvv