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Show "EXPRESSIO UNIUS," ETC. Born of vast and profound experience experi-ence Is the maxim that has come down to our times in the Latin tongue; "Exprcsslo unius, snpprcs- slo alterfus" (to express one thing is to suppress the other thing). The tune to which resolutions by the bushel are being adopted by tbe Socialist party Is the tune for the liberation lib-eration of Fred D. Warren of tho "Appeal "Ap-peal to Reason." None more emphatically than the Socialist 1-abor Party man will pronounce pro-nounce Warren's conviction a piece of injustice; consequently, none more emphatically would demand his liberation. lib-eration. For that very reuson none more emphatically than the S. L. P. spurns a move that, by "expressing" Warren only, "suppresses" Preston. The fact of suffering Injustice levels the sufferers, in the sense that all are entitled to redress; that all touch a chord to which good sense and conscience con-science must respond. Injustice smote Preston; so it did Warren. It matters not that the act for which Warren suffers was an act In pursuit of abstract order, while the act for which Prestou suffers was an act In pursuit of concrete rights; it matters 'not that the Injustice that smote Warren overtook bim in the endeavor to bring retribution down upon the head of a capitalist politician politi-cian fr a crime committed upon another an-other ditto, while the injustice that smote Preston overtook him In the endeavor to assert the rights of the Working Class; It matters not that the Injustice Warren suffers was incurred for meddling in a feud between bourgeois, bour-geois, while the injustice Preston suffers suf-fers was Incurred for standing ou the firing line in the class struggle between tho Exploiter and the Exploited Ex-ploited All this matters not In so fnr as the fact of injustice Is concerned. con-cerned. While distinction may be made, while distinction should be made, as to the relative value to tho Socialist Movement of the act that Warren and Iho act that Preston suffers suf-fers for, unquestionably giving tbe palm of merit to Preston, one and the other is a victim of capitalist misrule. mis-rule. To "express" Warren only and "suppress" "sup-press" Preston is to do injustice while clamoring for justice. It Is to do worse. It is to throw upon the Injustice, Injus-tice, under which Preston pines, the mantle of approval that silence implies im-plies an approval In this Instance, that lays the axe to the very root of the Socialist or Labor Movement. Weekly People. |