Show A FREE PRESS ANTHOLOGY Theodore Schroeder lo formerly of Utah but of late Inte a resident or of New NewYork York has published n a book or of pages In which ho he males makes a defense of free speech and free freo press quoting liberally from the works or of Mu Muton ton John Locke Locko Voltaire Re Rev Robert Hall John Stuart Mill Ull Herbert Spencer and others Mr Ir Schroeder states that Olat ho was prompted to write the tho book when on the tho catalogue of oC a library of volumes only two books bools were Indexed under freedom of speech and press In smaller libraries noth nothIng lag Ing upon tho ho subject was found Such conditions Mr lr Schroeder says esi 01 a supine supino and lethargic security which is oer the best bost possible en encouragement for the destroyers of lIberty Mi h Schroeder In his Introduction says S Liberty of speech and or the press In some parts part Of tho United States Slates Is now abridged cl to a greater extent than It Is in England Englund or ai was C ev n a century ago aSo the ho cruelty of the penalties has been much lunch relaxed the number of penalIzed ideas has been Increased Now as than thon these repressive laws are aro not hot generally en enforced enforced forced but are always readily and successfully invoked against persons who have otherwise made themselves unpopular Furthermore the uncertainty uncertainty of the criteria of guilt In these censorial laws has been materially In iii Increased creased In spite or of our constitutional against constructive crimes Tho arbitrariness or of tho ho lawless Sup Suppression of free speech by ignorant h hysterical and police cers and through the extensIon or of ex cx process and government by br Injunctions and the tho unjust allon In the exercise of ofa a lawless discretion on the part of municIpal executives ann and our quasi o official Iclal should be and abhorrent to all who view events cents with au an Cl rn cst and ami Intelligent desire to promote truth justice The most discouraging feature of of from rota the tho total ab absence crico of like n ii formidable protest Where In England a century ago riots resulted fr m attempts to enforce laws abridging free speech and the right of free fice assembly the American public views such conduct with utter r Indifference Al AI Although 1 though the tho repression is often unwar unwarranted unwarranted ranted even by an unconstitutional 1 statute yet yot In most instances the mass of the pub public lc applauds this om lawlessness About a century ago the tho American love lovo or of liberty wn 13 such lint the passage or of tho Allen anti and Se Sc law resulted In the tho defeat ot of otlie the lie Whig party Today similar and more pernicious statutes receive all allbut allbut but general approval so has our love o of 11 liberty bert r degenerated This deplorable condition of the tho indifference to the tho facts and the unconsciousness of their wrong or 01 of the future Import of these prece precedents precedents dents abridging free treo utterance to together gother gether with the quite general judicial Indorsement or of this abridged ed freedom make such a book as thIs an fated necessity and useful simply he be becauSe cauSe It is the only thinS thing or of Its l d dIn In existence |