The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1919-10-11

democracy no longer eNlSts III the
United States. One by one, the rights
of free people have been stripped
fro mus until our government is a
republic in name only.
Under the alleged necessities of
war;
% A CONSUMPTION system has
been fastened upon this country and
it is the intention of the junkers of
the war department, the incompetents
in Congress and our real rulers in
Wall Street that this CONSUMPTION sys-
tenn shall be a permanent institution
and vital part of the new and
strange "Americanism" that is now
agitated by the labor-fghting employ
ers and the prostitute press they con-
troll.
(2) The right of free speech and
and the expression of minority opin-
ion. have been abbrogated. A reign of
terror has been established, under the
Joint auspices of an Acknowledgement
whose pride is in the ruthlessness of
his application of the iron heel to
opponents of the private owners of
industry, and a postmaster-general
whose conceptions of human liberty
are those of chattel slave owner.
(3) The right of free press was
swept away, and second class mailing
privileges were used by the post Of
flee department weapons to suppress,
in newspapers and other publications,
criticism of the president of the Unit
ed States and his administration.
Other means were devised of loading
hardship after hardship on newspa-
pers that dared express disapproval
of the course of the government and
big business. These included such
methods as interference with their
incoming and outgoing mail, dragging
their editors and business managers
before inquisitors who pried into their
substitution lists and other business
affairs, and lin the case of foreign
language papers, causing them to un-
dertake the expense of filing English
TRANSACTIONS of their issues with the
government. 1t is now even pro-
posed to order certain of these for
eign language newspapers to publish
in English exclusively or not at ALL
This means their suppression.
"a The right of freedom of con-
science or religious belief that formed
the handspring of the movement OF
early settlers to the colonies which
preceded this government r was
thrown into the scrap heap by the
sword-rattling gentlemen who direct
ed the preparations for and conduct
of our participation in the war.
(5) Under the terms of new al
liances made by our government with
imperialist foreign states, the right
of asylum for the oppressed of other
lands Zone of the most sacred OF the
American doctrines) has been uproot-
ed from American soil. At the behest
of Great Britain, political refugees
from India, have been imprisoned IN
our penitentiaries, are now under or
der to be deported to India, where
British officers will execute them up
on their arrival Large numbers OF
foreign born persons who have come
to this country from many lands are
being deported because oil their actiV-
ity in organizing workers into labor
unions, participating in strikes or for
political activity against the contn-
led domination of our government by
the private owners Of industry.
Furthermore during the war 1t
was brought forcibly to our attention
that there exists in our army court
martial system that is relic OF past
centuries-more Prusian than that of
Prussia.
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