New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-01

he is mixed up with this I don't want to
have thing to do with it. =
And Cox grabbed his hat and left in
high dudgeon.
Nearing is evidently Cox's betenoir
when the mere mention of the celebrated.
professors name can drive him from his
own committee.
The quorumless committees decision
to table London's resolution killed it
dead as a doornail so far as favorable
consideration by the house is concerned.
Burleson's written statement in OPP
position to the resolution was deliberately
intended to deceive the committee.
Citing the decision of Judge Rose of
Baltimore in instructing the jury to
return verdict of not guilty in the case
of two Socialists held for conspiracy
against the enforcement of the selective
draft for distributing the 'leaflet "The
Price We Pay" Burleson left the plain
intimation. that the post Office depart
ment censorship was guided by Judge
Roses decision. The fact is that Burle-
son has excluded the ,leaffet in question
from the mails in spite of and against
the decision of Judge Rose.
Representative London made strong
argument in support of his resolution.
He shot three bare Burleson's de-
ceptive statement relative to Judge
Roses decision, and insisted that the
Socialists are entitled to know why their
papers are suppressed. He denied that
giving the reasons for suppression would
beincompatible with the public interested
and urged the committee, quorumless
though it was, to make a favorable
report on the resolution.
Judge Moon suggested that the Social
lists could 60 to court and obtain an in
junction if they didn't like the sup
preston effected by Burleson. London
explained that most of the papers were
struggling along from hand to mouth
and they could not stand the expense of
court proceedings, and exclusion from
the mails meant their death. He pointed
out in addition the bitter vindictiveness
of the Post Office Department in first
excluding an issue from the mails on the
claim that it contains non-mailable
matter, and then citing the publisher to
appear before the Third Assistant Post
master General to show cause whey the
second class mail privileges should not
be taken away because of the break in
the papers "Continuity'' due to one ex-
cluded issue.
Even the injustice of this arbitrary
and autocratic method of killing the
Socialist papers did not persuade the
quorunless committee to give London's
resolution the decent consideration to
which it was entitled.
London may get an opportunity to
address the house on the general subject
OF the suppression of the Socialist papers
but so far as securing any action is con-
cerned the adverse report by the quorum
less committee of five out of twenty-one
kills the resolutionasking for information.
Clarence barrow has returned . to
Washington from Chicago to organize the
work of obtaining legislative limitations
upon Postmaster General Burleson's
plot to kill the Socialist party by throt-
Ting it's papers.
1t is understood that the admin
stratoin already fears the Socialist
party's campaign to secure the repeal
of the CONSUMPTION law. The additional
declaration that the party will undertake
to defeat, in the 1918 congressional
elections every member of congress
who voted for the CONSUMPTION law has
thrown a veritable bombshell into the
Democratic ranks.