Show IRed ed Orator Courts Death I In hi N. N Y Financial District I I By Br TC I C. C YOU You have gw YORK Sept 1 N NEW N n no Idea how close you ou came cameto cameto I Ito to being a star sta actor In a l cl fIrst-clans fIrst Js I Iha ha hanging g said a 1 policeman after Ler ho lie had rescued tro from a mob n n. man who described himself r an ai Herbert A A. Thorpe of or No O. O 78 GlendenninG avenue a Jersey Jerse CIl City Thorpe's case e was ivas all more than of or orpa pa passing Interest rest as showing first the thc attitude altitude of ot mind o of a a. certain class to toward toward to- to ward all governments which governments which Thorpe described as Immoral immoral and and second tho the attitude of the thc average man on the thc street toward the person who ho vilifies s his Uncle Undo Samuel Thorpe appeared In tho the financial JIs- JIs bearing nn an armful of printed dodgers attacking tho the United States and all 1111 governments In the thc financial district peoples people's minds are arc trained to work an and anda a n. few moments after aHer Thorpe started handing out his dodgers he ho was homm hemmed hommed d In by a mob of or about 1000 ex excited excited ex- ex cited persons p some fomo o of whom were callIng callIng call call- Ing for a l rope L Lynch him hinl String him up up shouted shout shout- od ed somo hot heads From Prom Crowd It was at this Juncture that a l TK po- po hiceman Beeman arrived lIe Ho rushed the thc critic of or government go through the crowd and hurried d him off orf to the tho Old Slip sta sta- ta- ta tion I have a n. license to hand out leaflets leaflets leaf leaf- lets said Thorpe Gwan youre you're handing out Invitations In Ions to your our funeral said the police police- man The Thc American people arc are In no kind of or humor for or such stuff A A. score volunteered to swear to charges against tho the prisoner of oC distributing se seditious c- c literature Here is a copy COP of or the tho dodger Word That Angered Crowd GOYEn GOVERNMENTS nn Who started the tho diabolical war just Bended ended The Tho German government go Who were too criminally stupid to prevent it The Tho allied governments Who caused tho the Joss loss of or millions of ot lives Governments Who caused the waste of or billions of or dollars Governments Who ho aro arc causing the tho high h cost of ot living Governments I Who are causing causing- the tho high h rents I Governments Who ho are arc suppressing fr free e and free treo press Governments Hungriest It Who aro arc the thc biggest est hun hungriest dest I parasites s on earth Governments GO Who ho send Bend men and women to Jail for tor merely trying to educate their fellow fellow tel fel fel- fel low 10 creatures Governments Who ho are aro constantly In many ways Interfering with the free and natural development of or t tho o people Govern Govern- m mon ments en I ts s. s Who ho has h R taken away aW y your our beer etc The United States government go Who ho denies to the tho working t man th thel the tho l knowledge c and means to control the thc number of or his children The United States government go Who arc so gO foolish as 8 to create and support governments g Tho The people Who Vho arc are so 80 silly as to go to tho the polls on election day and vote voto to put men the they know kno nothing about In office of of- lice fice to rob and arid tyrannize over them Tho The people Who allow governments s to tire them with brass bands and VT v.- I claptrap into dumb obedience to their autocratic demands The j r- r I pie Is It not about time t tio o people woke up to the above o facts and did dIJ a little Something toward to reducing and I ultimately eliminating governments go Attack U Let men learn that a a. le legislatures legislature I Is not our god upon earth though by tho authority from It they would seem to think It Is Let them learn I rather that It Is an nn Institution serving sen lag Ins Insl a l purely temporary purpose whose WhOM power when not stolen stolen Is at tho the best borrowed nay nar Indeed have hYe we nOlI not nOl I seen that government go Ja is essentially immoral It Is a mistake to assume that government s must necessarily last forever The Tho Institution marks a certain certain tam tain staso of oC civilization Is Is natural to toa a particular phase of human devel desel eyel- eyel It Is not essential but met Inci dental HERBERT SPENCER Eternal 1 vigilance is the price of or lIbert liberty Jefferson I Signed HERBERT A. A THORPE No 78 Clendenny avenue Jersey CIt City N. N J. J |