The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1917-03-09
Is GOVERNMENT 50 PATERNMETr AND.
NQU1SITORIAL THAT FREEDOM Is AM0CKERY?
By w. F. WILEY. Editor Cincinnati Enquirer
fBy United Press Association


1t tacit alliance with the minions of
sects and organizations, powerfully
financed and skiufulls oficered, whose
mission in life is 10 legislats people in
TO morality and goodness? 1t matters
not, my friends, whence emanates this
insidious movement II Is enough to
Know that it really exists, that t Is
not a chimera or myth. Such q let
ter l. an insult to the intelligence and
the integrity of every publisher in
America, and there is no redress for
the studied affront.
Quoting from one who has made a
long study OF this insidious advance up
on the freedom of the press, let these
statements have place In your minds:
The fight for censorship OF the columns
OF the newspapers will not stop with at
tacks on liquor advertisements. or, indeed.
with attempts to control advertisements.
several states now prohibit the manu-
facture or sale OF cigarettes. and it Ia
inevitable that legislation against news
papers carrying cigarette advertisements
In such states Will be urged.
After the advertising department OF
every newspaper and magazine has been
columns remain free What OF uuiso
racing reports. stock market quotation,
| Sunday baseball information-indesd. why
not suppression OF Sunday papers. and of
Monday papers printed In whole or in
part Ola the Sabbath2
But what OF editorial lberty7 If II he
decreed that tho use OF liquor and OF
cigaretWs h hurtful alike To the individual
aud TO society. Is Il not mn act OF hostu-
ity 10 the state and 90 tho church fuf
an edhor To praise an old wina or tu
refer indulgtntly 10 the 'mokias' OF q
cigarette OF % oppose IN ANY way the
cause of prohibit ion2
How long Will II be. l wonder. before
American people are Jared into rsallAa-
ton that soon they must look for d,cta
| ton ns To what they may eat or drink
rs 10 what lines OF business sthey may
engage In. and as To how Now spa pen
may he edited. and what FORMS OF ad
Nertising IL may carry Into the different
! states?
And, gentlemen of the Associate %
Ohio Daiiies, We are to blame. We
have created the FrGaac MS, ems tho
are now turning 10 Pend us limb froi.
/ limb. Drunk with power. riding 10
wave OF tanaticism In sea of pa ct
nalism, the creatures OF our own max
/ ing seek our destruction. The yaulteG
power OF the press Is no more The
locks of Sampson have been shorn BY
the Delilahs miscalled statesmen, and
the press grovels before olicialdon
grateful for look, kind word or q
less importunate kick than usual.
intolerance Of Ofiiclaldom.
Two years ago. before this body,
painted a picture OF the growth oI
governmental o11ciOusness which was
d more prophets chan l knew. Your
I attention was Ay~ted NJ that time I.
the increasing Asossnss AMI intoler
ancs of ofaciajAsn end the prediction
fwas made that. sala0 checked and re
s'preseed with . stASA hand. IL NpulC
l3rise up TO strike down its creators.
lis In no spirit - AsVogsAeA or boast
hfulnsss that these fscts are resAlio1
ibut IN spirit = soWsw Ands hsmala
l3tion. Our sins q omission and com
mission are sASvk1ug W. Instead o
arising lihs valiant lighting Een, true
to conscience. to honor. Ia fhs spirit o
freedom and progress Of civilization
to strike down our shac&les, We ST
like hoary dotards wrapped In tn
sackcloth and ashes OF lament and re
Spine. How long, o Lord. How loni
shall this endure?
Where are the forward looking mel
of today? Certainly not In the halls o
legislation. State legislatures from
the Atlantic to the Pacific are feebl
counterfeits merely of a dOdderinj
| congress. Here in Ohio why can w
not have constructive. legislation oil
the subject of taxation? The answe
is painfully, simple: because We lac
constructive statesmen In the gel =
assembly. Too great a percentase 0
the membership can not lift its ear
from the ground TO take a good
square. honest look upon the ne.es
sites OF sections and taxing division
remote from the baiEwioks 10 whici
they look for continued lease on OF
cial life.
A Dartmouth professor is sponso
for a story that aptly portrays the sit
'uation in which we And ourselves.
A householder was dismaysd one nigh
by the sudden sXtin adjustment OF the cleo
tric lights in his house. In little whs
it. became apparent that the dari<riss
would probably continue through tn. rkgl
unless the break could he located and co.
rected. Unable at that hour 70 Ifeu
the services OF an expert elsctrici - q
householder hit upon the hapP6 y r.
detaching the batteries from his CHcr3al
lfand connecting them with his eleotr
feed wires Buzz no light rtsul; 81 Ne
lday the experts came 4, Re nedy q
lltrouble. and seeing the shapsess expedite
of the owner. re rlarkeAj
Don't you know that il tabfs goo tim
Amore power, To prrnuce listls man it Ia.
to produce noisey~
There is the whole .s4uar on II
nutshell We aret trou'nlkd WITH 10
voltage statesmen. the TIN dry
of WHOSE brains arc nsr uovt
enough to make unos5-sc = r.
while great dynapl;c rfds ehss
food the world v-iJh sEjsF =
and Wisdom are discUs3 - sfc, /,
mat4inery OF govern gent
:, TWO We ; sJer At as ;uAaa.
er1rg. I yectCi ) - Fcot ~ T. p
wise. Agan | crave. .you ~ . Z
to exp.s liate. to .Ssa - -
TURN tie battery 6t wrath OF :
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