Blue-grass blade., 1908-06-28
BLUE GRASS BLADE
BLUE GRASS BLADE
Measures for Muzzling the Press

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appearance of my article which was pub
lished in the Blade, and If the article itself
was not self explanatory, add to it the
above ideas and work your thinker along
those lines until you realize what press
censorship really means. 1t is the denial
by law of mems rights guaranteed by the
Constitution to publish their honest
thoughts on every subject that concerns
mankind, and to disseminate them through
the mails that though influences may en-
tighten the world and raise humanity to
higher and better conditions than now pre-.
vail.
To deny this right is to strike the great
est blow to progress that it is possible, and
yet the religious and reactionary portion
of mankind would do 1t at once and effect
lively had they the power Highgrade in
telligence is not wanted by the priesthool
or professional politicians, for dull and
stupid minds are more easily controlled
and kept in subsection. Conversation of
the rankest kind is found in most religious
organizations, and every government when
once established, shuns and fights with
vigor radical changes AS all governments
have imperfections and are guilty of in
justice at times, the agitator IS forever in
action, and it is right he should he, for
without him progress ends in improve
ments. AS those in control of governments
do not wish to be disturbed, they hate and
despise socialist today as they did an
abolitionist so years ago. and the we'll
meaning but foolishly impracticable an.
archist, they view as an intellectual degen-
crate sunk so low he is dangerous in So
ciety. Conditions produce every kind of
men found in society, and If we have So
cialists who want better government, and
anarchists who want none, the cause can
be found very readily by looking for it.
And II you wish to know why a man is
either one, Just ask him and yor will get
good and sufficient reason from his stand
point. If you want to know whv here are
heretics, infidels and unbelievers in the
Christian religion, just give them a chance
and they will tell you.
The effort to hold the world stationary
and to make all men think alike was tried
for centuries, and the most bloody pages
In human history were the result of repres-
sion and mental despotism. We want no
return to such times and such conditions,
for we know that the natural law OF life is
growth and progress, and any man or set
OF men. that seek to limit the action of the
human mind, are the deadly enemies of
their own race We want freedom to work
out our own destines regardless of the past
or what men have thought and taught in
ages dead and gone. We have a right to
cut loose from dead and worn out ideas
and to embrace new and live ones, and no
factor in human experience compares with
the printing press in uplifting humanity and
filling the world with light and knowledge.
Because or 1t one man can speak to mil
lions, and as great thinkers and men of
progressive ideas are always a small mi
nority, to deny them the right to reach
the masses; to disseminate their thoughts
which are the greatest dynamic forces in
the world, is to commit the greatest Of
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