The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-28

dog and pay the moon than Such an editor"
 They have bayed the moon a mighty long time. They have been time servers time and time again. Theirs was no more to reason why, theirs was but to do as the great advertisers told them so, without hesitancy and without demur.
 It is not in the columns of the great American papers where one finds any spirit of freedom at all | They are not now, and have for a | long time not been conspicuous by their defiant attitude of resistance 10 wrong, to injustice, to tyranny. They have been the hell hounds wherewith the great interests chased down their quarry, cowing the le- l legislatures, intimidating the courts, betraying the righteous and corrupt ing the politicians. They are squids ted cloud of deceiving sepia in the waters of truth, defying analysis and obscuring the real issues of the livest questions which society faced.
 Now, for Gods sake. Here they are whining and squirming and wincing and bowling that they are undone because two picayune bills are threatening to become law and which will compel them to remove two or three steady advertisers from their columns.
 Was ever there such sublime outcry upon such a ridiculous topic? Here have been the newspapers shutting off such news as might harm or injure their plutocratic ad- vertising clients, betraying the peo- pie from Sunday morning to Satur- day evenings extra, suppressing and cajoling and expressing and intimi- dating from the morning rising, to the evening setting sun, working themselves up like a dancing derv- ish because of the fact that Father Johns cough medicine ninety per cent alcohol, or Duffy's old Malt is to no further furnish them with the price Of pork chops.
 The freedom of the press is, truly enough, the prime essential to free country, and when congress allowed the officials to say what should and what should not pass through the mails, they there and then gave away a right of censorship which abridged it's freedom. No sort of legal metaphysics can controvert that fact But we all know that it is not against the powerful or the mighty that such abridgement has been directed, but against those very publications for whose exist ence the first article of the consti- tutional amendments was a vital provision. Any person publishing views that are conventionally agree able that the majority accepts tacit- ly or with open approval needs no protection. Those things will pass any way. What the Tzar thinks Is right will pass in Russia. and con formity to the bureaucratic views Is the sole requirement even in a des- potism for publications of any kind
 But those views which are not DO, pular, which are not conventional, which great interests or the officials do not like, which cause irritation and dislike, and compel the un- being able to controvert-these are the views need protection from gov ernmental inquisitions anywhere, and today as we'll as yesterday. And it is these radical publications which hold as truth what great interests would have the masses hold are fallacious and untrue, which power full interests would crush as danger ous to their continued privileges and extorted rights, those publica- tions which pursue the truth re- gardless of where it leads them, knowing that a knowledge of the truth alone will make men free those are they which need, but get the least. protection and which, getting the least protection, have been shorn of their constitutional rights time and time again without as much as by your leave from the