The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1927-08-26
THIS FREEDOM

THIS FREEDOM
BY Miles ROmney, Jr., in The Western News
This FreedOm-Down in Los Angeles, city of
movies, criminals Anne, the halt, the lame and
the blind, Monday there occurred singular in
cident which portrays wildly the retrogression in
the item of liberty suffered in some if not all
sections of these United States of America.
Tom Connors, secretary of an organization
designed to raise funds in assisting defense of
radicals unjusty held in prison, was arrested on
charge of criminal syndicalism He was held
without bail lie develops that his crime consist
ed in the police declaration that they had found
in Corners possession literature urging people to
attend mass meeting the following day.
What frightful circumvention of liberty! What
violation of decency! What an act of justice
For law is presumed to file forth only from the
halls of justice.
1t would appear that the time has arrived in
America where bondage becomes the price of
holding honest opinion. If you do not subscribe
to the dogma of the mob you are very likely to
be trOd into the earth by its frenzied ignorant
righteousness.
1t is no longer possible to differ with your fell
lows unless you are prepared to receive the
trenchant stiletto of malice and Justification in
the sections betwixt your shoulder blades If YOU
don't echo the voice of the entrenched so-called
Responsibility you are forthwith labelled
"knocker," "red," "bolshevik," or other pic
turesque and under certain circumstances highly
complimentary things. And if you don't have
sufficient stamina to stand stawartly for those
things which you believe to be inalienabe rights
you are apt to be stamped out like vermin in
clinic
The chief trouble with America today is that
we worship money. We tolerate a Respectable
class which thrives off the efforts of fawning
masses. So long as person has the cash he is
respectable. He rides on the topmost seat and
makes it devil of job for the majority of us
who are between the shafts, if we let him get
away with it.
Because person is managing a successful
busmess-by that mean making the dollars ride
home with hinl-the laboring masses, which in
clude you farmers, are prone to look up to him.
TO echo his banalities and to shout against those
VINO dare gainsay his dictums That is because
the majority of us are woefully deficient in our
knowledge of history. For it is a fact that the
vast majority of the truly worthwhile persons
who have inhabited this "vale of tears" have been
VIGOROUSLY bankrupts, saliently unsuccessful in
garnerlng OF shekels and delightful specimens Of
the human being who cannot see the point of view
OF the ruling class with its attendant lackevs and
indifferent subjects. Without this TYNE of man
and woman we would have no real music. no true
literature, no worthwhile drama, no great inven-
uohs' no line discoveries, no medicine no surgery
we philosophy, and so on ad infinitum
VI course some one is likely to disagree with
Ihe last above statements and point out some
conspicuous example to prove that l saw WRONG
snail have no patience with that fellow for #
Is the exception to the rule and that will prevaiI
everywhere except In the Utopia where all things
move clockwise and never fail
I'm the other hand gaze into the serried ropLs
u tne worlds Responsibility. Two generations
PACK and you will have an entire purgatorv filled
WIN !, dlI1lculty IN discovering their very names
| gu VIII IND that our masters of finance or in
lusVry' and their smaller limitations. are not coo-
lizant with any art except that of making rooner
ana many OF their most eminent examines acb;o,,
sd tnat end only by inheritance. Yon will find
great captains of industry who were not 90
II the revolutionary war, who never heard 80 A.
constitution, and who think Spinoza is son,atbin,,
% eat . something
We started out discussing similar 90 r. :
AM ignorance on a rampage. If we straved
. i.oin our SUBJECT 1t was only because of the
raln1lcauons leading from it and tangl-
e vne choicest most luscious specimens of con-
o-PV securely oefore us If we but have the ewes
md courage to look go
Ihere is no liberty unless you insist upon If
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