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Show EDITORIAL SAKLATVALA NOT ADMITTED The criticism voiced against the American authorities for barring communist, com-munist, Saklatvala, from entering the United States for any purpose are evidently evi-dently not well reasoned. He is a conferred communist, of revolutary spirit and incrediary speech. Ourjm-'.ligration Ourjm-'.ligration law deliberately framed, bars such entry into our country, The fact that he is a member of the British parliament counts nothing in his favor. Our congress has ousted from its membership elected representatives repre-sentatives from this state and Wisconsin Wis-consin for sentiments less destructive to our government than those of Saklatvala. Sak-latvala. The first obligation of loyalty is to protect and defend the principles princi-ples and institutions of the republic. The plea that the British tolerate his seditious speeches is not persuasive. They tolerate a lot of men and movements move-ments that we do not. They are, in consequence of some of them bordering border-ing on revolution. Many of the wisest men are warning of threatening governmental, gov-ernmental, industrial and social chaos and a million and a half Englishmen are jobless, dependents upon the practically prac-tically confiscated wealth of those who have any to be taken. Do we want to I enter into the same conditions as the reward for welcoming revolutionary free speech. We have had such free speech In this country. We had it in the 50's and it helped powerfully to produce the war between the states. If Saklatvala wishes to rank with Patrick Henry he should publish his "give me liberty or give me death" in t 1 ii. . . nis nome assemblies and not in our peaceful precincts, and if he would be another Washington he should array ar-ray "the embattled farmers" of India put himself in the saddle and start the singing of "On to Victory" Freedom Free-dom of speech for those to whom it belongs and who will not abuse it has not been mortally wounded by keeping keep-ing out the communist Saklatvala. |