Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-22
Muzzle Not Necessarily @
Badge of Loyalty, Says
Famous Editor.
MORE FREEDOM IS NEEDED
Country Would BE in Far
Better Shape With the
Gag Missing.

In recent isuo ~ tho Louisville Cour.
tor Iournsl that newspaper which his gen
ius hls ilumiucd across long trail Of
years Nattc Henry Watterson tells Of some
historic Incidents OF his buyhood and 81.
pIaiuu his uf0.Ianr record Of Insurgency
against shAms. ani tho false orthodoTies OF
politics, by the tact of his descent from u
race Uf diAAtntrtE Vs celebrates his Ecv.
'uty eighth birthday by warning the editors
and publishrrs Of the country that the capsc
for world democracy viii not be iutthered
nv - virtual suspension Of democratic poll.
,ics and ptiuo'plcs la our own land The
striking photograph reproduced on this page
is tho most recent one available Of the great
Kentucky editor ant of hu intimate friend
ssd former rutnradc In arms, Gen william
u llndcmar editor ~ the louisville Even.
ing Times who fought IN tho war Of the
scciions with the famous 'otphans' bri.
radc when he was sixteen Editorb
Since I aga giving every day and
all my days to tho life work which
) has filled the measure of my ambi-
tion and desires, II may he that
cannot put nay seventy eighth birth
! day 10 better use than by jottinR
| down In a familiar way certain e..
! pcricnces which have led to certain
results and opinions
Norn In the national capital Feb
lrunry H. lSi0, and growing to
mQnhood In and out Of Washington.
with occasional visits to Tennessee,
which my father succeeding James
! X. Polk from the Maury- Bedford
! district represented In congress, my
earliest Impressions took their color
and direction from political camp
/ fires and party battles I have sat
upon the, knee Of Andrew Jackson
and ! recall John Quincy Adams ms
la little old man who would put his
Inrm about my neck, trot me thru
tho corridors and across the rotunda
to the congressional library, then In
the capitol building and get me
I books 10 read
/ After while | became news
Ipapcr reporter having seat In tho
( house and senate galleries. respect
lively aud writ for the papers" and
| "fit In and enduring OF the war
land went to Kentucky whence my
/ immediate furchears had come 20
Tennessee and where their forehears,
/ the Morrisons and the Blacks early
Ipionocrs from Virginia, lie buried
Ioround about Richmond, Columbia
land Lexington.
/ | have passed many intervals OF
/ time in foreign countries not an n
sghtsecing tourist, but ns "A student
and worker making a living with h,S
( pen and seeking TO note, mark, ana
3 understand the contrarltics OF lift
and affairs which he who travels is
/ likely To- find In every land and
Iamong all peoples differing from his
own.
/ II has been my opportunity Ia
inject all sorts and conditions OF men
and women to enjoy the good but
4 not too good--nnd 10 reject the bad
go discover qualities mixed IN all
Icunnot remember when | was not a
/ Democrat Of the school OF Thomas
/ Jefferson, and follower OF Christ
Iuider the lead Of Calvin and Knox
| In point NJ fact breed back tn that
David BLACK OF EdinhurE. knoNs
undcrgtudy who passed many years
[ al stormy career In prison for recall
CitrHucy to the stuart dynasty. "A
|thoro insurreCto who from his pull
pit declared Elizabeth OF England
"a harlot and her cousin Mary ~
I Scotland. little better So at least
/ / came hy II honestly
Hut In 'hesc few inconRruvial oh
sor,atluus | shall not be pragmatiCHl
. / do not propose 10 knock down
land drag out those who have the
hardihood to- question my infallihil-
Iity The rather would reason with
them IL still uuconvinced pity them
pray Tor them finally falling back
upon the blessed words of the Saw
/ iour on the cross Forgive them,
/ Lord. they know not what they do ."
Plain All-Nound Ncwsninn.
A. least at my time OF life | shall
scarcely be accused ~ self seeking
|It may be doubtless II is--that un-
I like the Crummelacs's Uncle Lilly
wick who. until he married u young
/ wife WAS an angel and not "a NOR
/ tai am Just a plain. matter of
. fact all. round ucwsman who loves
his country and fain would say
something 10 help ~ out OF a middl-
ing bad TX. albeit the tutility 81 in
diNidual effort even OF printer 4
ink has long been something more
than suspected by me.
The most signal dangers Of the
tlmn-AGau4- "a me TO spring from
cmouonalism tho inevitable off
spring uf a state Of war hut with
us aggravated ny political and mill
tary acNpediency and diffused into
n kind ur popular hysteria by news
paper cNaEEeration Among stay
at-humcs the women appear less AZ
fected than the mon There - moth
/ ing hysteric about their ministra-
n