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Show THE Cl Fortunately, the minority is not always evil. Inventors are in minority, yet they have changed the method of social life. Poets in the minority, yet their words go thundering down the centuries, atesmen are in the minority, btu they blaze the way for progress yet ! come. i Society is an organ of myriad pipes which is played upon by a Minority of ten fingers and two feet that give the organist contact with instrument. But society will have to become more than the pas- rjve organ to be played upon; it will have to waken, and give as much ught to minorities as it now does to majorities; it will have to oose which minority shall rule it. Dearborn Independent. ft FREEDOM BUT NOT RED Justice Brandeis says: Those who won our independence elieved that the final end of the state is to make men free to de-- jj elop their faculties ; and that in its government the deliberative prces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty loth as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the scret of happiness, and courage to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and to peak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and read of political truth; that without free speech and assembly f iscussion would be futile; that with them discussion affords adequate protection against the spread of noxious doc- I fine; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this hould be a fundamental principle of the American government. They recognized the risks to which all human' institutions re subject. But they knew that order cannot be secured merely Wigh fear of punishment; that it is hazardous to discourage iought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that ppression breeds hate; that hate menaces staple government; hat the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely apposed grievances and proposed remedies ; and that the fitting yj miedy for evil counsels is good ones. Believing in the powder of reason as applied through public mission, they eschewed silence coerced by law the argument (force in its worst form. Recognizing the occasional tyrannies governing majorities, they amended the Constitution so that ree speech and assembly should be guaranteed. Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of Men feared witches and burnt wo- jree speech and assembly. Men. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage irrational fears. Those who won our independence by revolution were not f towards. They did not fear political change.. They did not exalt der at the cost of liberty, To courageous, men, with confidence in the j .tower of free and fearless reasoning applied through the of popular government, no danger flowing from speech in be deemed clear and present unless the coming of evil feared nTiso imminent that it may arrive before there is opportunity for ' or-inar- ily i f t self-relia- nt pro-jess- es T I Z E N $ buying power of the American people. In addition, we are not now getting immigration any faster than it can be absorbed, as was the case a few years ago. If the American people remain awake to the issue the immigration laws will not be modified in any way which will tend to let down the bars to cheap alien labor. The laboring men of America realize this and as the Chicago Tribune puts it, The law was designed primarily to preserve the American standard of living. The standard cannot be preserved if hundreds of thousands, of workmen, accustomed to poverty, are allowed to come here each year, glad to accept wages which no American would consider. Labor cannot listen to arguments against .the national origins laws without inviting further attacks upon a policy which has made the American workingman the most prosperous in the world. If the bars were let down America would be flooded with immigrants from all parts of the world. This would be a bad thing for the country and for the immigrants who would soon find that the land of promise was not so promising after all, inundated as it would be by deluge of alien competition. THE CRIMINAL ! i I The recent California legislature passed stringent laws governing crime, which laws will begin to take effect about the middle of August. California will be a very unhealthy place after that date for criminals, and no doubt many of them will be headed for this city which has already become known as a mecca for criminals and sym- pathetic pardon boards. All the red tape that has been the criminals best friend .in California has been eliminated. The prosecutor and judge has been given greater power and there will be no more paroles. It costs the United States over $10,000,000,000 a year for crime and California does not propose to contribute as much to crime in the future as she has in the past. When the Utah legislature was in session The Citizen repeatedly called attention to more strict criminal regulation here, but nothing was done in the matter and the crooks rule with a high hand. Their sentences are a positive joke, and it appears an easy matter for our worst criminals to get out after they have been arrested and convicted. There have been instances where liberated criminals have walked the streets and laughed at the police officers. It is certainly discouraging for an officer to run down a hardened criminal, only to find the criminal out the next day laughing at him. The burglar in California that is caught with a gun in his possession in the future will be given a good stiff sentence. It ought to be life, because he intends to kill when he commits a crime or robbery if caught or apprehended. Crime commissions and social and political organizations to study crime are nothing more nor less than propaganda. Any state that sets its mind can rid itself of crime, or most of it. The fanatic says, do away with the manufacture of pistols and the robbers wont be able to get them, but we say, place the criminal who carries a gun when committing a crime in jail for a long term of years and he will not carry a gun. The very leniency that we have shown towards road hogs and If there be time to expose through discussion the false-- 1 oocl and fallacies, to avert the evil by process of education, the reckless automobile drviers is the cause for increasing our present carelessness. There are a great many careless drivers in this city. tmcdy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. Such must be To them there is no such a thing as a They drive ahead jL Only an emergency can justify repression. in anywhere from forty to sixty miles an hour. They are nothing more l,fe rule i if authority is to be reconciled with freedom. Such, g.liy opinion, is the demand of the Constitution. It is, therefore, nor less than criminals. What is the difference whether someone kills you ir. a holdup jyjays open to Americans to challenge a law abridging free or runs you down with an automobile? Drunken drivers who have ;peech and assembly by showing that there was no emergency killed have escaped without spending an hour in jail. justifying it. The other day a careless driver, going at the rate of over forty vely miles an hour, killed a little child. Is there any excuse for such a IMMIGRATION "h driver? One would think he was driving a fire engine, going to a fire fC Just now we are hearing something from different parts of the where property and life were in danger. Such a driver should never the modification of our immigration laws. Doubtless be allowed to operate another car on our highways. Why do the I jjntry about movement for this modification will gather force as Congress con- judges continue to tolerate such killings? Surely the law provides for the protection of human life and the elimination of a deadly menace! ges. The American people will view with concern any general taOr, must the citizens carry guns in order to protect themselves ming with the immigration laws. Under the present system the the from being run over by these murder drivers? ilry has prospered. Wages are high and this has increased ill i discussion. ' k I a t; ! f right-of-wa- 1 t y. I ; 1 i ! : ; I" p t. i ft i ( l f i jj |