Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-03
Resolutions Declare Editorial
Policy Of Free Press of So
ciaIistiC and Inf|ammatory
Nature.
DEMAND IS MADE FOR
DISCHARGE OF STAFF
Article on "Bombs and Free
Speech" Interpreted as JUS
tifying Use of Explosives
Against Officials.
Capital News Special Service)

Nampa, May 3.-Asserting their be-
lief that the editorial policy of the
Non partisan league newspaper here,
the Free Press, is Socialistic and in
flammatory, and that the tendencX is
to encourage lawlessness and break
down Americanism, 25 representative
farmers and business men Of this city
and vicinity met here Friday and
adopted censuring resolutions that de-
mand a change in the editorial force
of the league publication. Included in
the meeting were stockholders in the
company owning the bipartisan
league newspaper.
SOCIALISTIC AND DANGEROUS
For some time there has been pro-
tests of league members because edi-
torials in the Free Press have been
Socialistic and, therefore, in their
opinion, cultivators of danger
Recently the Free Press published an
editorial on Eugene V. Debs, the So
cialist leader, sent to prison for dis
loyal conduct during the war, in which
Debs was compared to the Pilgrim
fathers and John Bunyan in an at
tempt to make martyr of him, as
believed. That editorial said There
have been many such felons. He joins
the company of John Bunyan and
John Hun. Chains may subdue the
feeble spirit, but thee, Debs of the iron
heart, they could not tame"
Friday morning the Free Press print
ed an editorial headed Bombs and
Free Speech" the plain interpretat ton
of which, in view of the protestants,
was to justify use of bombs. This so
incensed a number of people, including
farmers and stockholders in the insti-
tuition, that they decided to act viS-
orously.
c. A. Gloughie, George Duval, Major
Estabrook, G.. W. Lamson, G. T. Moore,
A. G. Nettleton, NJ. n. Baker and others
were prime movers in calling the meet
ing.
Petitions will be circulated to back
up the action of the meeting.
"RoM5S AND FREE SPEECH"
One editorial to which special OBJ
lection was taken was entitled
Bombs and Free Speech" and was re
garded as an open invitation to and
q subtle defense of violence. 1t fol-
lows:
'Federal officials feel a little
nervous over some bombs they
found in the mails in the New
York postoffice. There We're 16
or more of the Internal machines
which q police inspector says are
the most deadly he ever saw.
"Fhe nafarious plan seems to
have been to send the bombs to
eminent personages like Judge
Landis of Chicag' and Fickert of
San Francisco, who have been ac
tive in suppressing free speech.
"When excitabie men are not
| allowed to talk with their tongues
it is an old lesson of experience
that they will begin to talk with
dynamite. Such is human natu'A
For many months now some
/ of our bureaucrats have been imi-
tating the late cars attitude to-
ward liberal and radical thinkers.
| Men and women have been i'm
prisoned for their religious and
political opinions.
Public speaking has been sup
pressed by violence. sometimes by
legal violence, often by mobs
| sanctioned by the authorities.
! The courts have been used to put
down the liberties of the people
| in 4 way that would have aston
| ished Abra ham Lincoln and
George Washington. The plea Of
necessity was made for it all.
Most americans accepted the .
plea as valid, considering the cir
cumstances. but John Milton. a
| great lover of freedom. speaks of
| necessity" in Paradise Lost as
the tryant's plea" 1t is instruc-
tive to remember that the kaiser