The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-04-03

There is a bill now before Con- gress which seeks to establish I fed eral board of censors over the Mo- ton Pictures.
 The idea is of course to suppress those which gre evil, obscene, in decent or dangerous. That's wide enough to include everything.
 It is not sufficient for the promot- CTS of this movement that the man. agements of any film display that places upon exhibition pictures which outrage the moral sense of community are thus suDjectinS themielves to prosecution and pun ishment. They want to say what we may and may not see.
 There's a whole lot of people stay awake nights wondering whats to become of the other fellow. They plot and scheme and plan and de- wise ways and means of preventing the other fellow straying from the narrow path and it's their own par ticular business to say what is and what is not the narrow path. They want to control, govern, rule, regu- late the other fellow It's disease grown of the sure knowledge that if you can rule you can exploit, and if you can govern you can make a
 of i'm of slave ownership as a human in sitution.
 It's a pity people wouldn't think d little more upon that terse saying of the great essayist. ''Thc sure cure for the evils of liberty is more H. berty"
 That's the last idea occurs to thesa uplifting minds.
 Now take these movies. Why in the world should there be any such thing as a board of censors? If the Dream or the Eagle show were to place on the screen anything grossly indecent District Attorney Saxton would hardly be sitting in his office of morning before dozen com plaints would be sworn and they would land the theGter folk in MNeills Island before they knew where they were at. They wouti show once, may be, but popular clamor might prevent evon tho film being displayed its full length.
 No motion picture show is going to be bit worse than its patron ago, and you are not going to re- form the moral pcryert or the de- generate by making tie shows pure as the lily AS far as corrupting the public morals is concerned, that Is not possible because the moral peo- ple will not stand for anything that might do so. There is natura, moral sense in every community and that requires no board of cen sors to see that it is enforced.
 Take the papers you read. Why should not they be subjected to cen sorship? Because everyone knows that it would be utterly impossible to pull off any sort of obscene stuns without all kinds of prosecutions following in the wake of such pub lication.
 The trouble with 8 censorship is that it is never confined to any thing like morality in the ordinary sense of the term. These few moral up-lifters are always putting in, and they are almost invariably the tools of the capitalist class. They don't stop at censoring things which are supposed to be inately immodest, but they would destroy things that are all that could be desired because they see in it's art. things suggestive to their own minds.
 When the suppression of French writer's works was sought to De brought about, great critic sain that in the every day lovey-doveJ novels there was more suggestion that in the whole of the French mans works, and he said that he would take the most realistic writer and he had rather place those books in the hands of youth than sucn suggestive works as those of Ouida or Harrison Ainsworth or other DO puIar' writers, now forgotten. The romance was simply the cloak of an exaggerated instinct became sugges- tive because of that very cloak, just as clothing often artificially accent.