The Alaska daily empire., 1914-01-15
OPPOSE ANTI-STREET
 SPEAKING ORDINANCE

The Juneau local of the Socialist party Tuesday evening took strong ground against the enforcement of the
 anttstreet speaking ordinance, and adopted the following address, which The Empire has been requested to publish:
 While the Socialist party has no connection with the I, w. w., and has had nothing to do with the battle for free speech now being waged by that organization in the streets Of Juneau, 1t is unwilling that the public should be allowed to believe that it approves the i'll considered course of the Juneau city council, or that it could fail to sympathize with any honest endeavor to protect a fundamental human right, to whomsoever it might be denied.
 "The city council of Juneau, in de- nying a right exercised by Socrates in the streets of Athens. and by Jesus Christ in all the cities of the holy land, and by other agitators in untold numbers in every age, has emulated the courage and the sagacity of year. ling bull who confidently attempts to toss a locomotive from it's track
 "The city council of Juneau is seem ingly indifferent to the fact that the city of Seattle tried for two years to suppress free speech in that city, and was then so well convinced of the hope. lessness of the task that when Judge Humphries tried it again last summer, he succeeded only in convincing a far reaching public that it was Q hope less failure. The Juneau city council is seemingly indifferent to the fact that the city council of Spokane. after spending thousands of dollars in the at tempt to abridge the freedom of speech in that city, finally gave up in ignom- inous defeat. The city council of Ju- neau perhaps does not know that ex- cept in such cases as that at Boston, where Garrison was dragged through the streets by a lawless mob, and at San Diego, where potential murderers lawlessly and tyranically drove law abiding citizens from the town, have city councils succeeded in accomplish ing the desire with which the Juneau city council is imbued, and it may not have been realized by the Juneau city council that the outrages committed at San Diego cannot be repeated here, for the reason that the National ad- would be forced to bear the odium.
 "The course of the Juneau city council is the more remarkable be- cause it has been without adequate cause. There was, when the city council placed this chip on the munich pal shoulder, no probability of any considerable organization of the I. w. w., and it is not probable now, except for the attitude maintained by the city council toward them at this time. The fact that an occasional blanket stiff with an l. w. w. button on his coat has been seen within the city limits offers no sufficient reason for such overwhelming terror even on the part of the employers of labor and their representatives, as ought to have been necessary to impel a city council to deny a human right universally rec ognized since the dawn of civilization.
 ''The action of the local authorities has, as a matter of fact, had the effect of raouslng sympathy which other wise might have been denied them. The action of the city council practi- cally says in effect that the working men of the community have not sufa- cient intelligence to determine wheth- CT the ideas of the I. w. w. were good or bad for them, and there is always