The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-10
THERE is TOO MUCH OF IT.

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fool the best thing TO do is 70 encourage him TO
! advertise the fact which would not be easily
discovered if he remained silent and looked
wise We may take 1t for granted that the
president included in his recommendation, or
statement of belief, the written word well as
4 the spoken There viii be little dissent from the
general proposition that freedom of speech Is
the way OF safety for a people. This has been
our policy as a nation ancient and approved.
AS whole, freedom Of speech has been the I'M
challenged right OF American citizens, but it Is
open TO question If we have not gone too far
J In this direction. There are and women IN
our own state of Iowa, and in all the other
states, who are actively engaged in advocating
anarchistic, bolshevistIc doctrines; their propa-
ganda is conducted at times under the cover OF
secrecy and then, building their houses on the
foundation stones of free speech, they reach the
public through newspapers, near newspapers
and other publications IN various languages.
Thus hundreds of thousands of violent radicals
have been made.
I It has long been evident to many people that
far too much freedom of propaganda has been
permitted to men whose proclaimed intention
is to undermine and overthrow our government
The theory that they are fools and are adver-
Using their folly should not give them I'M
rnunity, for there are too many others fools
whom they are able to mislead. There should
be no freedom OF speech, no freedom OF propa-
ganda for any person who counsels criminal
practices means to any end; no freedom OF
speech, no freedom OF propaganda for men who
would right what they call injustices by yIo-
lence and crime; no freedom of speech, no free
dom of propaganda for those who forward boil
shevisrn. anarchy, extreme socialism The rem
49, han he
A letter seized in raid made recently upon
the Chicago home of d woman ]. W. ". sympa-
thizer BY detectives and secret service oper-
atives was written by one OF the ninety-three
W. W now in the Leavenworth penitentiary,
sentenced from Chicago for violation Of the es
'pionage law. 1t says:
The only way TO get Us out Is to organize
chine gun company, swoop down upon the peni.
tgutary With high powered automobiles. and blow
this place seven heavens
When workers begin TO take such action shall
become interested / far from being down
messing things untn the bolshevfki
here and blow them from the face OF the earth
" ". 70 carry ~ Colt or a sawed of shot
gun Nth his membership card and make new
brand OF salt and pepper shakers out OF our gov
eminent officials am tired of trying get jus
through the courts
Bolshevfki, anarchists, extreme socialists
(they are all Of piece cut from the same bolt
Of CLOTH hate with equal intensity any form OF
government, benefcent or oppressive. They
congpirs against our established government
and preach doctrine OF loot, murder and lust.
No such rniscreants should be left at large, nor
should publications clarifying bolshevism open
" or by implication and In guarded utterances
TO escape the law be allowed to circulate.
Mr. Walsh, Of Montana, has introduced IN the
senate bill which penalties the teaching or adj
vocacy Of the overthrow of the government by
means of violence, and denies the use Of the
mails for the circulation Of literature advo-
eating or advising. prohibits the transmission
in interstate commerce Of literature OF that
character and prohibits the importation Of lit
erature of that character The bill has the sup
port Of the senate committee on the judiciary
and it's provisions are 50 all-embracing that they
would seem to cover the case TO which the Bur
Iington Gazette refers in an editorial reprinted
in other columns on this page Of The Gate City.
! Is it expedient that preachers Of half truths
and manifest lies should be allowed to use the
maiIs7 Is there so much injustice in America
that bolshevism, which is organized rapacity
and legalized butchery and horror and crime,
would regenerate our repubIci
! Rembrant's cold Woman PIucking Fowl"
which brought two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in Paris just before the war, has been
sold again for three hundred and sixty thou
of dressed poultry, even in art, goes up rapidly