Show s WHAT IS FREE SPEECH Not long ago Emma Goldman was booked looked for a speech in one of the east eastern eastern ern em cities and the police served notice she would not be permitted to make an address Miss Goldman asked tie the t e courts to enjoin the police from inter Interfering feTing ering with her meeting and the judge I who heard the application said There must be a limit to tho the use of ot language And while the expression of an individual opinion is proper yet when purposely or otherwise the ex cx expression incites others to deeds of or violence the limit is reached amA anu the tho duty of the police Is then to take si st PS to o protect the lives persons and prop property property property erty of ot the public The prayer for tor an injunction is denied That seems seams to be a pretty sane Judg Judgment judgment judgment ment in the matter Miss Goldman pretends to disapprove violence but the effect of her addresses is ia incendiary Incendiary Incendiary diary beyond be ond a doubt They lead to violence They sting the emotional Into acts of disorder which simply cannot be permitted They are ar dangerous and destructive to the peace and order and the property of the people The wOrds themselves are nothing Free speech in n itself asel can do no harm and its re no repression repressIon sometimes seems to have an explosive effect on those not permit permitted ted to talk So that if Ir speech were all there could be no warrant In its forbidding But where free tree speech makes law lawlessness lawlessness free makes disorder free tree makes the destruction of property free then it will have to be stopped That Is a pretty fair test And It Is proper to add that speech In which hearers are urged to get guns and learn learno to o shoot and shoot straight is not the sort of ot speech that can claim constitutional constitutional lional warrant of freedom |