The daily sentinel., 1908-04-02
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A PROPER SUPPRESSION.
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To bar a newspaper from the
mails is to cripple it almost effec.
lively as to destroy it's presses with
dynamite or to burn the building in
which it is published. Indeed, of the
two evils, great majority of pub.
fishers would choose the dynamite
or the fire. Presses can be purchas-
ed at reasonable prices and on easy
terms. Buildings can be rebuilt
The irrevocable loss of the mailing
privilege is, however, calamity
that cannot be overcome.
The authorities having this power
in their hands should, therefore, be
most careful in exercising it. News
papers are barred from the mails for
various reasons. For example, be-
cause they contain advertisements of
lotteries, because they do not comply
with one or more of the numerous
postal regulations, because they
print matter that is not fit for gen.
eral circulation. To bar a news
paper because of an expression of
opinion IS II establish dangerous
prec deaf, ore that comes perilously
ne, To infringing clause of the ma
tionei constitution.
And yet we believe the action of
the president in withdrawing the
Sociale. an anarchist paper publish
ed ut Paterson. n. J., will be heartily
approved. La Questione Sociale GER
tainly should have been barred from
the mails, because it consistently ad-
vocates bloodshed, assassination,
anarchy, lawlessness. We quote one
of its recent utterances:
at will be good thing for every
body to have a gun. When We are
ready the first thing to do is to
break into the armory and seize the
rifles and ammunition. Then all the
people will be with us as soon as
they see this. The next thing to do
is to get hold of the police station.
and when the police see they are not
strong enough the chief of police will
ask for soldiers.
Even at that the dynamite is easy
to get for us. Twenty-Five cents
worth will blow big iron
door down. We don't want to forget
that the dynamite will help us win.
Two or three of us can defy a regi-
ment of soldiers without war. We
will start when no one is thinking
anything about it. Then we can
beat them man for man.
cat that time show no sympathy
for any soldiers, even if they be sons
of the people. AS soon as we get
hold of the police station it is our
victory. The thing is to kill the en-
tire force. If not. they will kill us.
After we have done this, the first
thing to do is to look out for our
selves first and then for the people
who helped us.
I'VE must get into the armory-
and in case we cannot. then we will
blow it down with dynamite. Then
when we are ready We must set fire
to three or four houses in different
locations on the outskirts, which will
bring out the fire department and
all the police. This will be an easy
thing to do. as the police and fire
men will be on the outskirts"
A paper that puts out sentiments
of that character deserves something
worse than separation from the
mails. 1t deserves to be suppressed
utterly and entirely. And the men
who are responsible for it should be
driven out of the country, since there
seems to be no method of confining
them in prison. Their action Is an
abuse of the freedom of the press,
and it should not be tolerated.
Salt Lake Herald.