| Show PROBLEMS FACING FA STRICKEN WORLD shall chaos or reconstruction in europe follow the great world war bolsheviks FETTER LIBERTY theories The orle leader leaders of tho th movement lay down and put into practice fly in the face of AH all hu tran an ExPer experience lence article by PRANK FRANK COMERFORD all A the th world except the b ih vicc rulers of numia ts Is old cloned bo be hind h nd rt the tie times ve ie till still cling to the old superstition that the people should be the sovereign that public officials are e public 1 servant servants that tho the safest plan of government it that form ot of cown ment which la Is nearest to the people in the united states state eacil citizen has his one vote he has a tote vote for or the men who make the local law laws the city or village ordinance ordinances a vote vo te for the man who enforce enforces the ordinances the mayor a vote for the representatives in the state legislature where the laws law are male for the governor who enforces the state law laws a vote for the congressmen and sen 0 who enact the national laws and to formulate M the national policies a vote tor for the prest president dent who carries out the supreme law of the land while it Is true that in the case of the president we vote for electors who elect the prel president dent there has not been a single case wherein an elector has toted voted other than be he was instructed by the people lie ft e come together in political citizen part parties es present platforms and every citizen has a chance to register his him opinion of men and measures the c citizen I 1 has a right to voto at prim primary ry elections and register bis his chol choice I 1 for or the party candidates and for the delegates to the which formulate the party platforms bolshevik argument unsound found Ui the bolsheviks point out that cal parties do not live up to their platforms that candidates cand dates for or office fault if in their promises after they are elected that representative de do Is frequently not represents the of and responsive to the people ve e k know ow that there Is troth truth in this crItIc criticism Ibm but we know that it its 1 our fault ne e have the power to express our wants to record our will ill ae 1 also in ahme the power to punish our bc betrayal ae a can recall from office recreant public sen seri ants we can add to our legislation and take over the power to initiate laws and compel the reference of legislation bach hack to the people before it can become operative as law our public officials are only our agents we me hire them we pay tamu we can fire them dIr disgrace grace them ond punish them it if they fall to obey a i instructions such Is our power ic it we do not nse use the power intelligently and effectively it la to our fault if we are indifferent to the rights we possess and fall fail to use them mem the fault Is with us therefore we do not condemn a system of representative government go y because some of the individuals who make up the government are unfit and unworthy of the rights they enjoy the bolsheviks appear to favor a change in la the method of governing the people the plan visa they have adopted Is based on the theory that the people must not be trusted but tatt the officeholders can bolshevism I 1 Is government from the top down rathar than an from the bottom up they seem to go on the theory that power delegated through many banda bands wilt will lose loss its corruption just as am running water does this political theory flits la li the face of all human experience bolshevist joker la JA our numbers we have a figure which for or many years ha hn i enjoyed a peculiar e r reputations reputation it Is the beste jester r ot of numbers it Is the tile number 23 it Is known in Ameri american cAll elang sling as kd oo 00 the bolsheviks inserted in the constitution a jolter joker and oddly odd ir enough they gave it the number 23 it la is round found la article 2 of 0 the constitution being guided by thi tho interest of the working class as a noe the kua lan iian socialist federal sott uc tic deprives all individuals and groups of all rights which could be utilized by them to the detriment ot of tte the 50 socialist re resolution here Is the big beware in the constitution what does it mean what fears must come into the minds of men and women la in ru sla when they read this paragraph ph the constitution ution deprives every one bally and collectively of exercising n 9 any ri rights he or they may have which cli are opposed to bolshevism did tyr anny ever impose a more arbitrary autocratic ukase the paragraph concede that individuals and groups base bae rights and then cOm command manis the people not to dare use those rights it if their exercise might be detrimental to the tile lenine trotsky government the right to voice thoughts Is sentenced to silence ence freedom of OPI opinion ie Is crushed to determine what aliat liat right it if mio nho is s be detrimental to a exercised might revolution the th meaning meat ting Is social kin the command is stem fall v as as elal in fn une line with bolshevism or perish Is with our d leagree order if it you the plans sansa and methods ni ethod U e en but not beard I 1 wonder what our rd friends the militant soar boxers who shout about freedom ot at speech would think and say ay if la in these day dale of unrest the congress at 0 the united state states and the president should make tuch a pro ent america radical and conservative would ails rise in protest ago against ast any guch such law U live STOW vv an I 1 progress as a people because of our freedom of thought speech and action of buirse ne we silence the man who criminally Rdo advocates cates lawlessness and we do it for the same reason that we arrest the man m who ho spite spits on the lk it Is to conserve the public w welfare elfa re the common good of the tle great groat who d not believe bellee in lit alu to len le and what bould hap hop awu iwi to our lied agitators it they ut vre re in itu itula aa today instead of in the united state states and ventured a R tingle single nt with the bolshevik pro grant either in to policy or methods method sl constitutional provision Is not a huffier on free speech it Is a gag lot N lint freedom can there be in a country in which opinion 1 11 shael eh acHed kled ifa con a nation make pro crees except by the conflict and friction of OP opinion Illon in the united states elpe fienco has taught us that the majority la ii generally right that the many can be trusted we have put into practice the idea that many beads heads are bet ter than one the bolshevik constitution launches the policy that willom can call only come from a few minds the fewer the better this Is fie the method they adopted to socialize freedom of thought freedom of speech it means a communism of ideas but a very limited communism in tact fact limited to the holy seventeen and the oracle dictator the people are outside the circumference of this communism in their cone zone communism commands obedience and silence tb the human race has fought many a fine fight to take the fetters from the minds of men and no fight was ever made tor for a more essential liberty when the mind of at man Is not tree free what freedom can there be bet the jailing of the body serious ai as it Is in Is only it small interference ter ference with mans liberty compared with the imprisonment of bis his mind this constitution constitutional clamp muzzle the press notwithstanding all the criticism which may be justly made against the press the tact remains that the newspapers news of at the world worl have dhave been a great force tor for good a great power in securing freedom we see the world through the ayea of the newspapers it Is our source of information we vie depend upon it tor for the facts upon atch which we base our opla 1 1 1 notwithstanding the bitter partisan pa r character chara ctr of the press few p pa a pera know party lines or party pr poeju ju dici when the public interest et Is men aced the thi press has thrown the searchlight lIght of at terrible publicity on the rt etli lI and 1 driven e out the political rats the freedom of the press Is in dispensable to free goe government CS of heart lenoue before ho he came into power was wa the gladest Ic la idest dest voice in russia Ilus sla crying for free speech ua ul pen bad had been roost most bitter interference with w ath the freedom of at the press in hie his pamphlet I 1 lessons of he be wrote the printing establishments of the labor press are raided the bolsheviks arn re arrested not infrequently without accusation or on the pretext of charges which are simply calumnious it may be argued that the prosecution of the bolsheviks Is by no do mean means a violation of tree free speech since only certain persons on specific charges are thus prosecuted but such arguments bear the earmarks of premeditated untruth for why should printing offices be raided newspapers suppressed for the crime crimes of individuals even if these crimes are proven and sustained by taw lawt it would be altogether different it if the government covern ment declared criminal the entire bolshevik party its ideas and view views but overy one know knows that the government of tree free russia never could and end indeed never attempted to do anything of the kind kentne coming into power wrote into the constitution a new now crime he declared all opposition to the bolshevik program a crime on this high moral ground be he struck down freedom of thought freedom ot of speech freedom of opinion and freedom of the I 1 press in the language of a great radical the time will come when the hence silence of the people of russia will be more powerful than the voice voices throttled by the bolshevik gag today COV UK 1120 w tem New union |
