Morris tribune., 1919-03-07
WOLVES

While at the recent state editorial meeting, the
writer of several places this the
NonParsan League planning to either purchase the
newspapers established at those places put in
This is all part of the Bolshevist propaganda
being spread hruou the countrya propaganda dan
geous more than the German propaganda ever was
These papers financed by the farmers of the
community tho control of the corporation is vest
ed Service Bureau), in spite of their farmer
ownership they print of articles praising and
defending the Bosheviss of Russia The Bolshevsts of
Russia today nduging in atrocities terrible the
Hun and Turkish atrocities which the world so
to believe at the beginning of the great They
violate law of God and confscate property,
degrade rob and murder Reliable eyewitnesses
told hundreds of stories that make the blood
cold and yet the NonParsan League, farmer-fnanced
newspapers in this intelligent state of Minnesota
preaching the beauties of Boshevism. Any man who
this condition against
it is craven potroon
This is only Of the many evidences of Bolshe-
propaganda, and it is time consider we'll
remedy. 1t is time that newspaper which per-
stently violates the truth be excluded from the mails
Heretofore has been thought that the personal and
criminal libel would hold in check any tendency to
gross violation of the privilege Of the freedom of the
press, but present restrictive have entirely
broken down. No public man lbeIed would think of
suing BolsheVist for libel and there are
false malicious statements that be
published without violating the law to criminal libel
malice actionable unless directed
specifically against legal person. falsehood
malice in the utterances of newspaper most seri
crimebut not statutory crome-against the whole
body polite Persistent indulgence in fasehood should
newspaper from the mails subject it's publisher
to a prison sentence.
The American people have to solve at the present
day of the most serious problems that ever
confronted them. Whatever differences opinion there
may be- whatever diverse views may be urged mat
ters little, they all part of arriving at just
cusons but the difficulties of the tasks should not be
the publication pure fasehood
and of false and malicious distortion of fact Let the
great jury of the American public be protected from
perjury practiced in the Bolshevist press
These remarks prompted by the reading of the
speech of that stawart old American, Knute Nelson,
after serving the committee Investigating the W. w.
Socialist, Non-Parsan League and Bolshevist propa-
ganda in this county. He said:
"I getting to be old man, and have not
many years before but satisfied that unless the
American people take effective and drastic steps stem
this wicked tide of anarchy Bolshevsm
carried in this country and that will
unless it is stopped great injury and deriment will be-
fall the republic
1.-THE conviction the sending to prison
of of these poor Yellowstone of them deluded
Mistaken others do it with malice pretense not
lief protection to the American people It is duty
legislators do what protect the American
people against this poisonous spirit of anarchy and sed
ton. The Constitution intended for the
lection of people of that kind.
cit is idle my mind, invoke the liberty of the
pale of constitutional of other law and there
only two ways in which protect ourselves.
Zone is to exclude these publications from circula-
ton people, and the other is to educate the
American people far against the dangers of
this spirit of Bolshevism.
"To my mind-and I have become and
convinced from what has ranspired at these hearings
before the committee of which I member-it is
apparent that facing today in this country great
danger in having the spirit of liberty integrity
and OF good government of people undermined by
this propaganda of Boshevism that is abroad
is being preached and propagated all around.
LAS said a moment ago, I am an old man and may
not live to the day, but if American people do
take steps to stop this thing to ought
stop it it will be growing growing and become
fostering sore beyong all possibility of remedy
II am not hostile to the press or to the liberty of
the press We have had laws statute books for
years, relating to what commonly call fraud
ORDERS relating lotteries laws relating to obscene
literature, and the power has been vested in Post
master General to enforce the laws.
"Now, the same principle that you exclude what
call fraudulent matter from the mails fraudulent
literature, that you exclude lotteries from the mails
that you exclude obscene literature in Heavens
it not just important to exclude from the mail Bolshe
visit literature far dangerous to the community at
large than either lotteries fraudulent matter? This
doctrine of Boshevsm promulgated in publications
of this kind scattered broadcast thruout the land
will do thousand times harm than the mat
ter lottery ticket fraudulent matter. 1t
to the va of republican institution and while
am in favor of the liberty of the press, while