Show I N NEW W SORT OP OF FREEDOM Ill I'll 1 THE r HE American government go was founded with the thc I J understanding th that t. t there thero should be equal rights 51 for lor all and special privileges leg for none However Howe far t. t t wc we e may have e wandered from that principle in actual I 1 practice never or until the present ascendancy of the thc i ii Democratic party was it seriously proposed that an any tt lass class of American c citizens should bo by legislative J t ond nd executive act rendered immune from rom the opera- opera I tiou of a l law nw under which other Americans are Dore sent 1 lIt tJ to the penitentiary 4 z 7 y The sundry civil bill bm with the tile tacit consent of the I t President le ident has passed both House and Senate with a n II 1 provision ro ision that exempts labor unions and farmers farmers' cooperative co- co o o- o I operative from the operations ons of the Sher- Sher 1 1 antitrust act not Officers of industrial and corn com corni i trusts are arc being sent to prison for infractions nB t II f that net act but labor unions un and l farmers farmers' organizations organize organize- Ill lions inny Iny disobey its provisions with impunity That I s which is is a ft crime in the captain of industry is not unlawful uni un- un i lawful in the labor Jabor unionist or the Tanner fanner I i- i It should be understood that this requirement of or orI I th bill is not merely merey a protection for these classes II unlawful persecution It openly and frankly 11 If J ves aves them from th the consequences of acts which in 1 11 Bother oth other r classes es of the population aro are denounced as file ille f it gal None would desire desiro to interfere with the thc unions or orthe the farmers formers in any finy legitimate enterprise and ud the I I 1 Sherman I act does does no not do cIo so o. o It t m. m merely provides es for I j their punishment if It they commit crime Just as it does docs for tho the merchant or the tho financier Should President ie IL f l sign this measure he will h have approved class 4 legislation n of a most vicious character Perhaps it is isa i 4 f a a manifestation of oi the ne new nc freedom fEl r Aan an o outdoor e exercise cis in spring g d digging bait i t i easily cagily holds bold its 1 popularity over oer beating carpets i j t ia I. I SECRET GOVERNMENT r of public business in iii secret is so T TRANSACTION 1 objectionable that it is only whim the participants p have something malodorous to con con- affairs affair conducted be bo- ceal ecal When governmental are arc hind closed doors door the inference is justifiably held hell that the people are aro being deceived and JU mistreated The Senate committee on finance e. e if it persists in its determination to refuse public he hearings Hin s on th Un Underwood ln- ln n. n derwood tariff bill bili will rill be subject to that th t general cond n This legislation is so potent poten for th the weal or woe woo of American industry that every C step tcp in its enactment should be taken in the lie broad broH light of da day the servants of the people must do t their l lL L' L wor work under the gaze of their masters The public will owe 0 u II debt of gratitude without respect to political affiliations to the Republican S senators son sen n- n if the they r succeed in their effort to compel el open hearings by the finance committee TIm Tito legislation ns as it comes from the House I is but bub ut imperfectly understood understood un nn- un- un I few are arc aware as os to the thc changes that will he lC made in c existing tari tariffs Little information was forthcoming during the House debate as m the Mie industries industries indus indus- tries t-ies affected preferred to register their objections with the S Senate where because of the slight Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic majority it was felt they would be most effect effect- ive ire If they are now denied that opportunity the tho people will l' l remain main i ignorant lorant of the changes which the measure mo will make The deci decision ion of the President and his advisers to hold wl secret hearings bearings is an utter repudiation of the principles lo to which Mr 11 Wilson lson is supposed to adhere but that of course will astonish nobody The reason for forI forthe forthe the thc decision is much more interesting for the motive I is is without doubt a healthy fear lear of public senti senti- I ment That also hardly seems to explain it because it would be bo a 11 serious reflection upon the President Presidents enact legislation legis legis- intelligence to suspect him of wishing wishing- to lation to which the people are arc opposed It is inex inexplicable inex- inex except upon tho the theory that NY Mi rl Wilson and his liis friends have determined to sn save c the American people from fron themselves es to cram Bourbon tariff mell- mell cine cinc down the public throat despite te all nIl protests Star chamber tariff hearings however will vill nOa but a few more strands to the rope with which winch the Democratic donkey donke seems determined to strangle itself |