New-York tribune., 1920-01-12
Critics Are Dared
To Suppress Open
Forum of Church
Socialists Custer Assailed
by ChadbOurne and Brady
in Pulpit, Where Pastor
Likened Reds to Pilgrims

Thomas L. Chadbourne, lawyer and
capitalist, received an ovation last
night from 1000 persons in the
Church of the Ascension. Later Will
liam A. Brady, theatrical and motion
picture producer, also was cheercd
j The majority opinion Of the meeting
seemed avowedly and audibly liberal
if not Socialstic. Copies Of the New
York Call's' special edition dealing
with the Albany suspensions were dis
tributed in the lobhies.
The occasion was the regular week
ly forum of the Church of the AS
cension, which recently came in for
much publicity by reason of a remark
Of the rector, the Rev. Percy Stickney
Grant, to the effect that the deportees
on the first "soviet ark" were compa-
rable to the Pilgrim Fathers, exiled
from England.
Last nights subject was "Free
Speech" The applause which marked
the conclusion of Mr.. Chadbourne s
talk resulted from His pledge to sup
port Mr.. Grants forum "to the limit
Of my financial resources"
Censorship, even extreme suppress
sion Mr.. Chadbourne said in his ad-
dress, was justified in times of war
In the United States, however, he de-
clared, the end of the war emergency
had not seen the end of censorship
and propaganda. Private interests, he
asserted, had taken up the work where
the government had left off, so that
to-day the country was deluged by
propaganda of all kinds, coming from
private sources and attempting to
stiAe the free impulses of the people.
Paid publicity agents, he asserted,
controlled in an increasing degree the
news of important events, SO that, it
was impossible for the people to ar
Of the ousting OF the five Socialist
Assemblymen Mr.. Chadbourne cx-
pressed the opinion that it was "the
worst outrage perpetrated in this
country since the Civil War"
William A. Brady aroused constant
applause by smashing attacks on Will
lam Jennings Bryan, Wall Street, the
State Assembly and motion picture
censorship. zone of the things that
is wrong with this country just now"
he said "is that there are too many
people in it who are. not minding their
own business"
Nebraska. that shining light of
.iAN W ScU ,"'O 61ADOCO VII all titc
front page space in the newspapers
last week by throwing monkey
wrench into machinery he had no
business to touch. Why, | might say a
dozen things here tonight, brighter
than anything William Jennings
Bryan ever thought Of, and l wouldn't
get on the front pages.
"TLere have been mistakes on both
Sides" Mr.. Brady continued. eve
saw mistakes made by labor men in
the recent disturbances but when
Judge Gary got up at Washington and
said 4 won't arbitrate' some Of US be-
gan to wonder who this Judge Gary
was, that he was grown so great, and
whether the government had not bet
ter order out it's soldiers to bring
the Judge Garys to a sense of their
sponsibilities rather than to help
them win their fight.
"And that makes me think of Wall
Street." he went on. II would be a
millionaire tonight if had kept
away from Wall Street. Wall Street
is out and out gambling; it is ruin
ing more young men and young
women and old men and old women
than all the whisky, cocaine, drug or
liquor habits in the country put to-
gether-and that's rec spaech!"