Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-05
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Doesn't Like Altitude Toward Reds.


 MT. Editor: for one am ashamed of the moral towards who comprise great part of our American citi- zens. The great mass of Americans at the present time are living in darkness, steeped in ignorance and degeneracy. On all sides of us they may see if they will public officials who are supposed to perform the will of the people and the Censt. tuition setting ali at naught Attorney Gen eral Palmer is doing his best to live Of Germany by the country wide raids of aliens and deportation with scarcely the semblance of. trial. Break up the homes seems to be his motto for he deportS men only, leav- ing wives and children in th4s coun- l try to starve or live on charity.
 But in New York state it looks as if one of our Prussian autocrats had oyerplayed his hand by denying the right of five elected representatives to take their seats. It has at least. had the effect of arousing the, people of the country as nothing else has. From nearly every state in the Union has come words of protest from men l Of prominence regardless of their po- litfcal faith. It is owing to this gen. eral outburst of indignation that I still have a remnant of faith in the American people.
 If the public would now examine I closely into the nationwide raids which are now being conducted they would md as great a travesty on jus tlce as has been committed by the i New York state assembly. It should be borne in mind that all things are not as they are painted. In this l generation it would be hard indeed to hnd anyone so inhuman as to uphold i slavery. Yet in the years folloWing | 1929 William Lloyd Garrison, the founder and most prominent man in the abolition movement was called a murderer and cut throat And. aI- though a deveut Christian was call ed an infidel and practically all the churches refused to have anything to do with him. So in our own day we | should get information from all sides before we pronounce the verdict.
 Senator Walsh of Montana. after reading from a book which advocated a complete change in our govern ment from beginning to end, said. However we may differ with these doctrines, however inimical we may think the teaching of them to the public welfare, ~theres is no power in the congress of the United States. nor in any department of the government to prevent the publication of litera ture of that character or the dis semination of it by any means what
 ever. It is protected by the guar anty of freedom of speech and of the press in the first amendment to the Constitution.
 1 It is a pleasure to discover that aI least one man has mot forgotten that we have a Constitution. One who has not made of it "a scrap of pa.- per-" Pc
 But it is the average man to whor referred in my opening statement
 the farmer, the shopworker, the bIIs. mess man, our teachers, and preach. CTS. Buckle in his History of Civiii. zation in England, describes then perfectly. He says: An immense ma 1or4ty of men must always remain ir middle state, neither very fooiisl nor very able, neither very yirtlIons nor very vicious, but sIunlbering or in peaceful and decent mediocrifv adopting the current opinions of th, . day, making no inquiry, exciting nr scandal, causing no wonder, just hold. : ing themselves on a level with thei, generation and conforming to tbt standard of morals and knowl6de,