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Show FREE SPEECH. While the United States is a conn-try conn-try of free srech, there afe times when indulgince in abuse of the flng, republican republi-can institutions, the army and navy and the chief executive is attended with some risk, and loose-mouthed individu- als who are in the habit of loudly j boasting of what, they will or will not do in regard to the execution of tho laws of the land, havo no one to blame but themselves if patriotic American citizens grow angry and use their fists upon tho offenders. Scarcely a day pasfs without trouble of this kind briny started, and we sometimes wonder won-der how it happens thnt, men who earn a living fr th'-mj-el ve nnd families and enjoy the, perfect, freedom guaranteed guar-anteed by the constitution of the United Stateq rlnre to lift up their voiccn against the republic at, a time j when it pons are being gnthered to-1 to-1 gethcr to fight for the freedom of the , whole world. Apparently they have neither gratitude nnr sensfl of shnmo, and 'h"v U'-k nil the. rr-nentinls of ' li ri ':t i an i ty nnd good ci t iznir-4i i p. Horn of thef men Indulge in threntn j and riling of t Ijh govern rue tit r. lien i I under the influence of liquor. There j ued to be a saying on the frontier that I if there was any dog in a man it would mine out when he vras drunk or on the road, and the saying is true to a considerable con-siderable extent. The dog in the railers I at the government of the United States tomes out when they are drunk and exposes their tme character. We do not like exhibitions of physical violence., vio-lence., and we think such offenders should be sent to the rock pile a1"" tjiven an elementary lesson in patriotism. patriot-ism. Still we cannot blame the true-blue American citizen who smashes a man in the mouth who insults the flag of the country, for it is very difficult to listen to such things in silence, and the man who stays bis hand usually goes away feeling that he has rot done his duty. There will be much excitement all over the United States from now on until the kaiser is brought to his knees and there should be no rioting. Instead oS chastising men who de.-lnre themselves enemies of the country, let them be arrested and punished in accordance ac-cordance with the jrravity of their offense. of-fense. The rock pile may be sufficient punishment for some of them; the others can be .ent to tho internment camps and' kept there until the war. is over, the nliens to be then deported and the native-born Americans deprived of the rights of citizenship. |