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Show CHICAGO'S ATONEMENT. thicno considered it neceary to urge itself of the stain on its escutcheon es-cutcheon cause. 1 by the action of Mavr Thompson and the People's Council. At the order ot Mayor Thompson the baud ot' traitors and their dupes were protected pro-tected while they h4ld privately a meeting which Governor Lowdou .had declared they must not hold publicly. The me mi or? of tiie People's Council Coun-cil posed as mart v is who had been denied de-nied the tii-ht of free speech and now that pat riois have met and spoken Irrely the '"(tin enters ot sedition will vai about the unfairness of the American Amer-ican public. Tho twaddle about free p poeeu jjains force because we rca!Iy li.ie free speech in this country under the guarantee of the constitution. It is a priceless possession and that is why p cry irresponsible agitator, every enemy of society who would wreck our institutions and every traitor who v.ouLl encompass our defeat finds it t'xp"dient to appTil to thp con-tit n tion-al tion-al uarn men of f rnn pfr.-h. I-iat our conM : 1 1 1 i f n nnrpr was infant to protect pro-tect traitors. The inn who framed the const it nt bm h ad had some c xpprin cc with t rai tors and on r f-ar!y Iavvrr:ai-:er-'.vitp com fif I kd to stringent la wis ar;iMt. sedition. i Tho mr'nibr of the People's '"ouncil I'Actit iiij and dim n the ci, unlr'-' srirw j 1 I a pin cp of as -jcnibl y ivhcrfl they miht t'xerci-o what they were, pleased to call tin; " ri'ht of free speech." Jf a Kan" "f anarchists had yone about demanding demand-ing the ''ri'ht of free bomb-throwing1' t hey would not ha en n ade themselves any more we I com n than the mem bers of the Peace Council and yet bomb-thro bomb-thro v. ers probably could not do more harm than those who, as German agents or r In; cat spa ws of German agents, go about, uttering the prevarications of a propaganda whieh lias a tendency to paralyze our war strength in war times. Senator Root, at, the patriotic rally in Chicago, expressed ho unanswerably I. he correct view of the American system, sys-tem, which traitors and their 3upes find o onerous, that we cannot forbear to quote the passage in which he exposea thu fallacies of all who think that they have the right to interfere with and handicap the government in the conduct of tho wTar. Shaking on this phase of the controversy, Mr. Root said: "The same principles apply to the decision de-cision of numerous questions which arise in carrying on the war. Somebody Some-body has to decide such questions before there can be action, and when they are decided the action can be only in accordance ac-cordance with the decision. You may be opposed to raising an army in one way and I may be opposed to raising it in another way; and so long as the question is undecided, wc are entitled to try to yet our own views about it adopted, but we do Dot have the decision. de-cision. "The whole of the American people have elected a president and congress to linten to your views and to mine, and then to decide tho question. When they have decided it is plain that the only way in which we can raise an army and go on with tho war is by accepting that decision and any attempt to discourage dis-courage volunteering or to oppose conscription con-scription is au attempt to hinder and embnrrass the government of the United States in the conduct of the war and to help Germany by preventing prevent-ing our government from raising armies to fight against her. "Somebody has to decide where armies are to fight. The power to make that decision rests with the president pres-ident as commander-in-chief. Anybody who seeks, by argument or otherwise, to stop the execution of the order sending send-ing troops to France and Belgium is simply trying to prevent the American government from carrying on the war successfully. He is aiding tho enemies of his country, and, if he understands what he is doing, he is a traitor at heart. " |