Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When a professed Bolshevik was allowed to mouth his doctrines in the precincts of the University, the CRIMSON became indignant and suggested that he ought to have been stopped. It has pointed out that a difference exists between free speech and propaganda, but there seems to be no possibility of drawing the line. Experience has shown that it is impossible to shut up a "Red," as long as there is a street corner and a soap box. If we forbid him to speak, we play into his hands by giving him one more grievance to talk about. Our resistance must...
...printing a communication on the Humphries meeting by the undersigned in last Saturday's CRIMSON an error was made which seriously misrepresents our position. In the sentence "Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the 'evolutionary' growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution," you printed the word "revolutionary" in place of our word "evolutionary...
...into the country by any means, constitutional or otherwise, we feel that the framers of the Constitution of the United States, if they could have taken the communication seriously, must have had Freudian nightmares on recollecting their own insignificant words: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...
...principle of free speech has had almost universal acceptance since a hundren and twenty-five years ago. In countries and localities where it has been applied, "free trade in ideas" has usually resulted in the separation of the good from the bad, and "the power of though to get itself accepted in the competition of the market" has been proved. Governments have found that when attempt is made to clamp down the lid on things they dislike the result has been that the lid has not only been forced open but entirely blown...
...there are some things which, although carried on under free speech, are only excesses, and in no way promote the purposes for which free speech was instituted and is now supported. Legally, these excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among...