Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1917-05-18
IS coyERNnEfi y 1lIllNalBrc.ASD
INQUISITORIAL THAT nMD0M Isl MOCK RI?
tBy United prsss Association,

financed and skillfully officcred, whose
mission in life is TO legislate people N
to morality and goodness It matters
not my friends, whence eEianate thus
insidious Dovement. II is enough to
know that 1t really exists, tnat II Is
not b chimera or q myth. Such let
| ter Is an insult to the int diligence a.,!
| the integrity of every pGbnshtr in
America, and there Is no redress FOR
the studied affront
Quoting from one who has made q
long study of this insldous advance W.
| on the freedom of the press, let thesu
| statements have place in your minds:
The fight for censorship of the columns
\ Of tho newspapers will not stop with at
| tacks on liquor advertisements. or, inde~i'
l with attempts to control advertise menus.
! Several states now prohibit the manu-
| facture or sale of cigarettes. and II "
! inevitabl that cgisation..a suinst news
papers carrying cigarette advertisements
! in such states will be urged.
| After the advertising department o.
\ every newspaper and. magazine has been
! subjected to censorship. how can the news
| columns remain free? What OF horse
| racing reports; stock market quotationSi
, Sunday baseball informatlon--ifGesd. why
/
: Monday papers printed in whole or IN
( part tie sabbath?
. But what OF editorial liberty? II Il be
b decreeJ that. the .use of liquor and OF
7 cigarettes AZ l4ftful atik5 to the ihGisldIn;l
y and 80 soo..ty, js IL nut IN act ot h,siii-
4 ity TO the state and 10 t!lu cAurci Tor
an editor to psai se an OLD w.Qc, VI ,,u'
4 refer indNIgently to the mahin's' of
cigarette or to oppose In any way the.
I cause OF prohibition?
Z How long will u he. wonder, befpre
American people are Jared into rei,iiza-
ton that, soon They must look for dicia-
ton as to what they may eat crNdrtnk,
\ as to what lines Of business they may
i, engage in, ;tnd as to how newspaper
may be edited, and what forms OF ad-
certifying it may carry into the different
aatatcs?
|. And, gentlemen of the associated
OHIO Dailies, we are to blanc. We
+, have created the Frgnkenstoins that
are nOw turning to rend .us limb from
limb. Drunk with power, riding a
wave tS fanaticism in a sea of pater.
nalism. the creatures OF our own. max
ing seek our destruction. The Wanted
power of ,fhe press is no more. The
locks of Simpson have been shorn b.
the pelilah. !, nfisCalled statesmen, and
the press ? yoveIs before officialdom
:. .ateful for a, look, a kind word or
less Emporium ate kisk than usual.
intoIeran re Of Otficiaidom.
Two years a.V, before this body,
Ipainted a pictl.se of the growth o.
| governmental Off siousness which was
! more prophetic t. Van ! knew Your
I attention was direc tAd AZ that time to
che increasing inso tnce aEd intolcr-
ance Of cfficialdom sld the prediction
was made that, unless checked and re-
pressed with Stern Eand, 1t would
rise up to strike down as creators. IL
is in no spirit of arrot Snce or BOAST
fulness that these facts are recalled,
but in a spirit OF sorrow %na hdiAlll&-
ton. Our sins of oMissi 'f. ard con-
mission are engulfng US. instead oil
rising like valiant fghtins men, true
to conscience, to honor, to he spirit OF
freedom and progress of C TiizaIca,
to strike down our shackle y we f!t
like hoary dotards wrapped 1T the
sackcloth and ashes of lament and re-
pine. How long, o Lord! He ~ long
shall this endure?
Where are the forward lookin N en-
OF today ?sCertainly not in the ht us ,ol
legislation. State legislatures from
the Atlantic to the Pacific are I, NaDls'
counterfeits merely of a dodGe rgns
congress. Here in Ohio why can We
not have constructive legislation ON
the subject of taxation? The ansv yer
is painfully simple: because We la tx
constructive statesmen in The gener "a
assembly. Too great u percentage
the membership can not lift its ear
from the ground to take a good,
square, honest Nook upon the neces- /,
stiles of sections and taxing divisions
remote from the baiiwicks to which
they look for continued lease on OFF, |
cial life.
A Dartmouth, professor ia sponsor
for story that aptly portrays the sit !
uation' in which We find curse Ives. -
A householder was dismaSed one night |
by the sudden txthgIhshmant OF the cleo
tric lights in hn. house. In latlo while
It became apparent that the DARKNESS
would probably continue through The night
unless the break could be located and cor
ascted., Unable at that nur to secure
.ha' services Of an e9 pert electri'aan the
hit. upon the happy sceeine OF
Ietachinse the baitcrI Is from his doorbes
Ind connecting tho with his eiecu'e
Iced wires But. no light resulted Next
lay the experts Il anne To remedy the
rouble, and seeing the hapioss eNpedieht
" the owner. renSal kod
Don't you know hat II takes 500 times
more powe r to prod, ice light than It takes
o produce noiseT'
There is the y hole situation In Q
nutshell We are. troubled with low
foliage statesmen The tiny dry cells
IF whose brains are inst powerful
.lough to make unceasing racket,
White great dynam ic minds that might
iood the world ~ it'll, legislative light
md wisdom are dii iconnected from the
machinery OF COVE rnnent.
Two years later at this annual gain
ring, / ventured to -scold and to sad-