Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — AND THIS IS “FREE SPEECH” [ARTICLE]

AND THIS IS “FREE SPEECH”

“For 700 years Russia labored tin-’ der a monarchy. That was long enough and they overthrew the old regime. Did we expect that they would call upon us to tell them the kind of government to set up? We would be very poor instructors after the job that we pennitted in, this country. “But Russia has brought into being a government of the people, rest resenting the people, and one that takes into consideration the rights of the people the way that the Russian people want them taken care of. So I am not worrying about Russia. Russia has done a tremendous job. “Oh, that the days were only near when the workers of the United States w T ere able to concentrate their effort and do a job such as Russia is doing. “I happen to be a Sinn Feiner, and I am not worrying about what tjie people in Ireland are going to do either. In the face of the British empire the Irish people have set up their own Irish Republic. And that stands there today in the face of the British empire. “It is our duty to wrest this government out of the hands of the

group of greedy, avaricious financial labor baiters and oppressors who are trying to exploit the people.” The above utterances are taken from W. R. Heart’s Chicago HeraldExaminer in its report of the “keynote speech” of John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, in his address to the Labor party, one of the discontent elements holding a third party convention in Chicago this week. Fitzpatrick also assailed Governor Cox of Ohio for Cox’s removal of the Democrat mayor of Canton, 0., during the recent strike, because the said mayor allowed the “reds” to have their own way. The remarks of this man Fitzpatrick, who is also strongly against the league of nations, shows the sort of people these malcontents aro made up of. Fitzpatrick and ( his ilk should be given the boots and sent to his dear Russia, whose govern ment he professes to so greatly prefer to the government of America. Such damnable doctrines he should not be permitted to voice anywhere under the Stars and Stripes.