Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1936 — Page 8

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I was like lighting a match in a powder magazine. .. for that

i iraveling salesman Yo air bis political views in Si Putney’ 5 Gen-

eral Store. And when he began on, “What ails you farmers” ...a dozen angry voices shut him up. plenty! It was then that Si Putney stood up 0 bis full six-foor-three. “Listen!” he said, oq. don 't cotton to this stranger's kind o’ talk no more'n you. But Ill fight any man in the store who Says be ain't got a full and free license 20 speak bis mind!” And those grim-faced men fell silens before that demand for tolerance, as free men have always’ honored it since it was stated by Voltaire nearly

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YHEN Voltaire made his famous dec--

laration in behalf. of free speech,

he defied every government on the face of the earth. For the surest way, in Voltaire’s time, to meet the public hangman - - was to advocate free and unrestricted ex:

pression. of opinion.

"Yet, a few decades later, in 2 new

‘world, an American Bill of Rights gave

that right of free expression-—in speech or in print—to every one of its citizens ...and, since then, has kept that right inviolate, against every pressure of changing times and conditions.

It 35 that spirit of tolerance and- fair

play: in" America which inspires a fight crowd to applaud the boxer who helps

a fallen adversary to his feet. It encourages a street corner gathering; contemp-

ts tuous of the rantings of a soap box oritor,. to stay the hand of the police who would silence him.

In such tolerance lies the strength of our " democracy. Willing to listen _ to both sides of any question, the average American can be trusted to render a fair and sound verdiet.

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