Show OPPOSED TO CENSORSHIP Talking on ou the tile ship ot of o books Thomas Thom Nixon who roto Tb The Clansman bleh was screen d the title of o The fhe Birth of tt it Nation addressing a meeting of ot ry men in New Nework New ork ork saId laid This This is peculiarly Interesting to tome tome me Inc fOI 01 I base havu 0 been It and publicly foi tot fifteen ears As an authol I am opposed to a view pre of pictures or ot of o books This Is absolutely ly un- un In la II a n democratic free tree reo re- re republic r public such tuch as this because lou vou OU al alI already already I really ready have hav the machinery of cen- cen cen ot pictures and of o books e 1 I to write and some one oue to publIsh a t filthy stor ator I would be b a fool and the publisher would be b a fool tool because the exploitation filth never Deer De er has hai succeeded In this country in plays 01 pIctures picture or orI I books book And our common law covers tho matter for the author or pub pub- publisher I Usher lisher o ot of s a a filthy book can be ar- ar arI arrested I rested and lined tind And Imprisoned and the book conri confiscated The Itch fOI 01 censorship Is a s con mental disease dl ease Once it starts it goes on It spreads from rom one oue on nosey mind to another It bean be- be beK K gall an n ten ton icar ears cars ago ao In the th censor censor- censorship censorship ship of moving pictures 1 The Ih he identical Iden Iden- Identical principle Is involved In in lu a cen- cen of o books I 1 1 told those men en who were ere seeking It then that once hey they got a n censorship of pictures they would seek seel a censorship of o books book and they said No But Dut there thero the bill Is pending in Albany and now no they open avow that they will WIn not stop until they thy control evely press pros lu In the tho United States God AlmIghty ne never er made a manor manor man or a woman good enough broad enough wIse wis enough to hold the autocratic power po pow or er to place hands on the throat of ot an author and say sav You mou shall shaH think only as I think and write only what chat hat I say shall shaH be writ writ- written written l ten The author elated i how ho hohe he be v as unformed that I If he h would pay 10 10 I to certain Influential men in OhIo Ie be h could show The Tho Tho Ell th or of ora ofa ofa a Nation in that state stat where hero a censorship board had pad e excluded the pIcture I Mi 1111 Dixon Is right in opposIng the of pO power er o of censorship I 0 oser er the th literature o of this country The people are ar the best judges I They will accept or condemn that which Is offered and the th foul and I base will be bo rejected A lw lew should not pot be allowed oo to determine as to what the man should have to read The Th Immature minds of children should be b protected from defile defile- defilement ment ment but men and women omen o of e e ex expel pel lenco and judgment should be capable of makIng their 0 own can n do- do decisIons de decisions on literature nn- nn I |