Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-04-25
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
IN SELF PRESERVATION.

There is a question which the American Congress viii o have 20
settle We in this country have for a full century been insisting tina,
free speech and a free press must be kept inviolate. This grew out az
the thought that however much the American people might differ in opin-
ion, there was below all a love of country which was universal and the
differences would be in methods only, or in details; that OF all main
questions Americans would be Americans, for country when right. but
right II wrong, for country But things have changed, says Goodwins
Weekly
A woman halrangued an audience here on Sunday last. She inveigh-
ed against all law and all governments inyeighed against the marriage
m9, the marriage relation; against the necessary decent restraints If So
from what she said that she expects that those who feel as she does
would yet have to wade through a sea of blood to accomplish what the
have in view. 1t is a clear case that such a perverted soul is a npblfc
enemy that all her teachings are crime, violence, misrule, that lead
straight up to chaos for society and disregard for all the inherent rights
'oi lVld The question is how IA such a situation be met. AS
we look upon the matter selfpreservation is IS much the Inherent right
Their purpose to destroy this nation. If a man threatens to kin anotber
man. and he has sufficient reason to believe aat the mar win carry
fout his threat the law makes it justfable for him to kill that man
Now men mn ad women band themselves together and declare their
determination to destroy the rulers of a free country; to beat down ne
laws; 10 drive order away and bring chaos, it seems to IL that in the
very nature of things a nation that permits them to 20 on is guilty of \
criminal act We would not kill them, but whenever they open their
foul mouths we would arrest them; We would try them; if fonnd ruTtv
y would impnson them; " g would put them where they could do no
narm' "e YOU'D compel them to stldy mathematics and physics and his
t"F ad lW tor our hours a day, and we would keep them there until
neg would become harmless either through reform or through old age
Il is a outrage to let such wild beasts prey upon the American PEG
lie It is al outrage to permit these wretohes to write to brother
wretches n the old world that this is a land of freedom in their sensa
which means license and a good place to go to.
While we would arrest, try, convict, If possible. and punish tbes,
por creatures at the same time we would keep in mind that they are tn.
product of ignorance, of cruelty, of ages of oppression. So We wonld
ohy D marsh enough with them to protect innocent people from, heir do
vices and would try to change the order of their minds and he careful IA
keep mem restrained until they did change, " until, through aga they
became harmless, There is more need of combining a woman like Emma
uoiuma ina there S a man. She ought to be put away where her views
cannot be heard and where, above all things else she never Inv nv nos.
"a become a mother. Her race ought to stop with her and
ne rae OF every woman like her ought to stop with her. They are mon
siosNNes nat nave grown upon the public as a fungus grows in the
darkness and in the filth. and the nation that does not nro.o+ ,taSe
against them is untrue to its own people