The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-04-28
THE WORRIED WILEY.

an address Dg W. . "lieS' Lultoi of the Cincinnati Enquirer at the Associated Ohio Dailies' Banquet and circulated, we have no doubt. by interests not unconnected with the circulation of liquor advertise ments.
 This man Wiley is some word juggler. and he loses himself in the maze of his own eloquent phraseol- ogy on the subject of the freedom of the press. lis an ancient sub ject, as Wiley well shows. for in the course of his remarks he takes him. self back to the days of John Lack land and Runnymede, of Charles and John Milton
 Into a paroxysm of denunciation against the encroachments made by ofTicialdom upon the freedom of the press he righteously works himself, and one wonders the wherefore ot piling on the agony until Ossa is like a wart and eating crocodiles IS the coup de grace of his Laertian rant.
 And after a bit we get wised up by beholding that the captain ot the Cincy Enquirer does so because Of the threatened passage of the Kan dall Bill or the Bankhead bill which prohibits periodicals passing through the mails which contain ad- vertisements of intoxicating liquors.
 The palladium of our liberties are threatened the republic is in danger, personal liberty is menaced, the freedom of thought, speech and e pression jeopardized by tn" poss' ibiIitv of the passage of these mon- strosities ir the way of legislation.
 Surely it is much ado about mo- thing. Apparently Wiley is con cerned because of the fact that the profits of such advertising arc to b." denied the press Apparently he is unaware of the far more insiGious encroachments which have been made with no loss of sleep an3 no uneasiness upon the part of the Wileys.
 It is not so long ago since the editor of the Appeal to Reason was in the tolls because of the fact that he endeavored through the columns Of his paper to attract publicity to the different legal attitudes on the auestion of Kidnapping labormen and Kidnapping men of means: 1t is not so very long ago a police order smashed the forms and shut up the plapt of labor paper in Spokane. It is not so long ago that the edl- tors of paper in Chicago found that they were completely suppress sed bv the authorities, it is not so long ago since another labor and radical paper in San Francisco was denied passage through the malls: it is only a recent occurrence that paper published in the Russian ton yue was ordered to submit it's artlc- les in English translation, prior to each issue, to the officials so that IL could be determined if it might be passed through the mails, it is only a short time ago while the Chicago bakers were on strike, and others were involved, a Judge enjoined Polish paper from even mentionnG if in the columns of that journal.
 An Italian paper in Patterson, N' T.. publishes cartoon of the ltai- ian officials in Tripoli and revealing the reported barbarities upon the natives therein, and it is suppressed and the publishers punished Why radical papers have found scant at- tention ever paid to the first ar ticle of the amendments to the con stitution when they became really radical and called spade spade.
 But the Wileys never were stimu- lated to an excited gasp by reason of these things. They never burst into print with the latest from their jawsmithy to attract publicity to these infringements upon the freedom of speech or of the press. Now, however, when few bawDees are to be denied them, and when very sensible law of the government reouires that bribed matter contain the mark of the briber as "advertls- ing" in plain English. they get up from their hunkers and emit yowls