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Show BRITAIN LETS nrn n n fl?nnn ; Htll unfllulio RANT Si HE They're Not Afraid of Free Speech Over in England i By Milton QFmiucr.) EXETER England Sept. 4. "Your capitalist pi,, v..uld probably call m ' a Bolshevist ell. according to their definition, I am a Bolshevist. I glory In what they have accompanllshed In 1 Russia." Tho man who said this stood In front of a h'.ood-riil bantu r whe h was labeled "Workers Socialist V- I-eratlon I-eratlon Communism." One of hH ; assistants passed out a leaftlel which contained about as many lies as it would le possible to pack in brief ' space. I WHM s OF LD Among th m were the following. "The Russian Soviets have socialized social-ized ihe houses so that there are no i more landlords and no more rent to pay. "The land has been soclalizi d ami : the landlords and big farmers have disappeared. "The Industries hnve been socla!-; socla!-; ized and the DOSS has gone. ' ibl nc pensions equal to lhj standard wage are given to all persons per-sons over 50." It wound up with this ph-i " Slop the war against the Workers" Communist Com-munist Republic of Russln. make a Workers' Communist Republic hers!" IM 1KER 111 H l l l The man wis not arrested, There was not a policeman In hIkIU. Noth ing happened except that the audience, audi-ence, composed of Devonshire farmers farm-ers and Exeter merchants, heckled him witii embarrassing nuestlons. One heckler, an elderly man. asked the speaker whether he knew th difference between a Communlnt and a Christian Socialist. The Bolshevik .speaker stammered and hesitated. "I thought vou wouldn't know.' said the, heckler. 'v it. l will tell you "A ChrKiin Socialist des'.res hi fi How man s GOOD. A Communist desires his fellow ' man's GOOl s " l lil I SPKECS OOKS . Now the point of ihls whole th!n is that In England, even after a r. war ami with Bolshevik Russia not so ' far away, they are not afraid of free speech, free assemblage and free press. To forbid workmen to meet ; and discuss their unions, would be to them unthinkable. Then- are no tllttle trust-owned ' mayors over us there nre In America to I do thul sort of thing. Apparently the British law officers and police think It better even to let Bolshevik fanatics have a safety j valve In tho shape of free talk and free meetings |