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Show I THE FEAR OF FREEDOM. It was Tolstoi who said ihat the rich would do anything for the poos except to gft off their backs Similarly, there are various disciples of democracy toda who will do anything in the world to further democracy, except to allow us democr&cj Among thrse is a facile writer in the Chicago News of August 10f who proposes to curtail free speech, whenever it attacks Eree speech in others, leaving it to ' the others," of course, to determine when this attack occurs Owing to the i urious twist of the mind which always accompa nies reactionary reasoning, no mattei how well meant, the writer does not see that in thus advocating the curtailment of free speech, he himself is subjeel to the penalty of his own law, and any who enforced en-forced it upon linn would in turn be subject thereto, so that the last estige of free speech would verj short l disappear, bj reason of the well-meant attempts to prelserve free Bpcech l suppressing free specf n Have clone with all such ingenious evasions. Quit beinp ashamed of freedom It eae puerile tears that the fundamentals ol tile American republic re-public are so frail that a few hare-brained fanatics can destroy them l a breath. Free speech needs no apblogA or defense, as long as free .speech exists; and all free institutions are predicated upon the righl of free speech Not upon its sup-pression. But upon its ez-presaion. |