The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-08
THE GREATEST DANGER.

When an effort is made to sup press open agitation of any kind, it almost invariably leads to secret agitation of much more danger ous type.
 This is certainly correct if the causes of the original agitation are not suppressed with the agitation itself.
 Certainly also no matter whether one approves the methods of the ra- dicals or not. the safety of all classes lies in allowing free and uninterrupted expressions of the views ol everyone.
 For almost her entire reign Qufeu Victoria in Great Britain vas rot c4ce attacked by the anar- chists of fine deed. while ia almost every other European nation mon archs and rulers were heset by men of that type.
 Yet that queen was protected far less than any other monarch, far less than President Wilson is today.
 And why? Because absolutely free discussion was permitted in England. The nihilists of Russia and the anarchists of the contin- ent found themselves safe in Great Britain from arbitary molestation.
 Any person who has eyer been ia Europe and London of Sunday evening who yeaurnd into Hyde Park must have been struck by the original soap boxers who gave vent to their opinions on every subject under the sun. Some openly advo- cated the dethronement of the roy al family. some advocated the establishment of a republic. some urged bi-metallism, some the cause of anarchism, some the restoration of the Stuarts and almost every manner of thought. freakish and otherwise, was openly represented, Around and among the speakers went the police in uniform with no guns and no drawn batons, listen ing here and there, smiling or shak- ing their heads and without mak- ing an effort to do anything else but prevent the audience from mobbing some speaker whose out landish or ultra-radical notions aroused their conservative opposi- ton.
 That was a safety valve: as much safety valve as the publication of openly republican papers as was once Reynolds Weekly. as was Mod dern Society which began it's week ly critique of the courts and high life by reference to Queen Vic toria as Mrs. Great Britain, oI when extra atrabilious as Mrs Brown or Mrs. D'Israeli. This was as much a safety valve as the open publication of Freedom or other anarchist publications which ever when they circulate iii this country will cftener than not have the Lon don publishers mark upon it's front page.
 Across the Irish Sea there was no such liberal policy. The story of Irish History throughout the 18th Century is one long story oi one or other secret society formed for the application of physical forco to the redress of the national grie vances. real or imagined. Papers are suppressed. Men jailed, trans ported. Meetings bludgeoned bN police and soldiers. Courts ap proved packing iuries. Speaker: were hustled off platforms and made particeps criminis in outrages by reason of their uttcrances. Spie, were every WI ere. Police were al every cross roads. Patrols were tC be seen throughout the country day and night. Coercion acts, suspen sion of Habeas Corpus acts. en' forcement of century-old Conven tion Acts. revival of Edward tho Third Statute of laborers and wha' not-on the other hand we have noticed landlords shot by the way side. horrid destinations, Phoenix Park murders, premature rebell- ions, Fenianism, Young Irelanders Invineibles and other cath bound
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