New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-06
Nearing to Make
Three Speeches by
Grace of Enright
Paci6st to Deliver ADJ
dresses to Only Those
Now Holding Tickets

Denied police protection when he at
tempted to speak in public Thursday
! night, Scott Nearing yesterday obtained
from Commissioner Enright the priv
ilege to deliver the final three ad-
dresses of a series arranged before his
| indictment for violation of the espion-
age act.
Assemblyman Samuel Orr, Socialist,
and Alderman Alexander Braunstein,
both of The Bronx, who appeared in
behalf Of the indicted pacifst, said that
he would speak to only the few persons
who had bought tickets for his course
OF Thursday night lectures on economic
subjects at Auerbach's Casino. 1915
Boston Road, The Bronx.
All other attempts of Scott Nearing
to speak in public will meet with police
interference. Instructions stand to
clear the hall where he attempts to
speak. The meeting last Thursday
night under the auspices of the Social
ist organization of the 4th Assembly
District, at which Professor Nearing
was to speak on "The Laborer and His
Hire" was postponed until next Thurs
day, when Police Inspector Richard
O'Connor threatened to disperse the
meeting.
No Evasions To Be Permitted
Nor will an attempted evasion Of the
Police Departments announced inten-
ton to prevent public addresses by
Scott Nearing while a Federal indict-
ment stands against him be allowed to
pass unnoticed.
invitations to a Scott Nearing "tes-
tlmonlal dinner" have reached Chief
Inspector DAILY at Police Headquarters,
though intended only for New York's
Bolshevik -four hundred" Inspector
Morris, of the 5th inspection District
was at once instructed to watch for
any attempted violations of the Police
departments ban on Nearing at the
dinner set for next Wednesday night.
The invitations, circulated in radical
channels, read as follows:
There VIII be a testimonial dinner
for Scott Nearing in appreciation of his
opera House, Sixtyseventh Street, east
of Third Avenue, Wednesday, April TO-
at p. m.
price per plate. one dollar. Tables
seating ten or twelve. Attendance lin
tied to 400. Acceptances accompanied
by remittances should be sent at once
to Elizabeth Freeman, 1873 West Thir
teenth Street. Chelsea $780,"
Says Nearing Will Speak
Although Scott Nearing is not listed
on the invitations as one of the speak
ers, Elizabeth Freeman said yester-
day that he would be at the dinner in
his honor and would deliver an ad-
dress.
Others who are scheduled to contrib
ute to the oratory of the evening are
according to the invitations: Morris
Hlllquit, Algernon Lee, Joseph D. Can
non, James II. Maurer, Judah L. Mag
mes, Eleanor Fitzgerald. Leonard Ab-
bot, Charles Erwin, Joseph Schlossberg.
Norman Thomas. August f. Claessens
Fred G. Biedenkapp, Pauline Newman
Bertha II. Mailly and Edmund Seidel.
Detectives from the 9Th Inspection
District will be on hand to sec that
Nearing respects the stand taken bv
the Police Department against his pub
lie appearances.
Inspector Morris may be expected to
follow the example of Captain O'Con-
nor Of the 18th Inspection district, who
announced last Thursday night:
I'VE don't want Nearing in The
Bronx"
The stand taken in that borough
holds good for the entire city.