Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-21
FREE SPEECH AND sEDITIoN.
(From the Douglas Dispatch.)


German pacst wouldbe anarchist lets his love for
the kaiser his caution and vies the United
Stated until he lands in JAIL the first thing
raise sicly howl about the rights speech being
denied him. This misguided individual yels through
the prison bars that American
government encroached upon privileges
speech shows ignorance speech is
There is distinction between free speech and sedtion
that but Prussiamaniac ought to be able to
Free speech does not mean that is permitted to
utter any words that his tongue frame. He
jump up his hind legs and advise those unfortunate
enough within the sound of his voice a
the president. He has license preach treason,
toll the Germany, belittle allies
powers whose triumph would be a curse to the world,
denounce the seectve consumption law urge resistance
to the the United States advocate measures
designed cripple this country conduct of the
war; give aid comfort to the enemies of America
Some of those who rail the government
ference with their of treason know that they
have right say things that they shout from
houestops Others by the cunning
sedtonsts really think government has no right to
put limit any disoyal utterances that they feel like
spouting The former should be punished without
show of mercy the latter should be would
muzzle a swapping dog Both classes ought to be in
termed
There is nothing treacherous than poisoned
spoken printed word directed the nation or its
when it is engaged in struggle to maintain its
existence a democratic country The mouthngs' OF
those who would rather Germany than the Unit
ed States despicabe and of deadlier influence
Than the of of tho
possibly could be- One can understand the motives of
the spy impes tattling traitor at
home is beyond the ken a patriotic mind to compre-
bend. In resolution adopted by the socaled Peoples
Council for Democracy and Peace, framed after the
of Illinois had blocked their meeting plans Chi
cago, there these words.
We urge the people of the United States to repudi-
this violent assault upon rights speech
and free assemblage and the only effective answer,
call upon them to organize in peaceable law
abiding assemblage adopt legal methods protect
their rights and liberties.
They did realize that there about 1OO
100000 Americans together that very purpose
and that they united in order that treacherous
element shall make that those rights shall not OBJ
tain. According to this council it would be perfectly
meeting American soil to map plans for Amer
lean invasion provided meeting might dis
order Governor Lowden in reply to the resolution
aptly said:
Such conspiracy las pro-German peace meeting
in America) ought not when the nation is battling for
its life to find shelter under claim of freedom of
speech. If We lose this war, real free speech will be
lost, and this society, which claims privilege,
will contribute to that result reasonable conspi-
racy the less a crime because it is staged in
public crime is less crime because the
world is taken into the confidence those
nit it.
There people right here in Douglas who daily are
making sedtious statements who would cry free
speech they silenced The admonition Germans
United States made by Attorney General Gregory
when declared against Prussia should apply to
everyone else in the country well "Obey the law;
keep your mouth shut" said and it would be well
all to heed it.