Word: protestable
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...step will be widespread in its effects. It is no longer war time. The people should be allowed this natural human right. It was in 1774 that the American colonists objected to the clause in the "Coercive Acts" which prevented free public meetings. We are still American enough to protest against such restrictions. Of course free speech should be allowed only so long as it does not interfere with other rights given us under the Constitution, so long as it does not incite people to violence and counsel overthrow of government. Curbing free speech only helps the cause of unbalanced...
...gratified to notice that Congressman Dallinger has sent a protest to Secretary of War Baker against the parole of former Lieutenant Frank H. Smith, known as "Hard-boiled Smith," who has been serving a sentence of a year and a half at the federal penitentiary, after having been found guilty of most cruel treatment of our soldiers...
...football games incidents happen similar to the incident in the last half of Saturday's game, where some player does a thing which if seen by the officials would call for a penalty, and which is seen by large numbers of the audience as evidenced by their audible protest...
...been difficult to protest against the increasing orgies of drunkenness this winter without encountering the charge of a "holier than thou" attitude, of pharisaism, or of prudery, but the chastening words of the one who has done more than any other living man to make Harvard the greatest of American universities find a sympathetic echo in the hearts of hundreds of men whom we believe more truly represent the sentiments of undergraduates than the noisy group who refuse to see the beam in their own eye, and the reply of whose champion is only in truth a corroboration...
...between North and South. There must also be discipline. The strike order, when given, must be obeyed; and reports from China indicate that the "walkout", was a fairly general one, the great majority of students having laid down their books as a workman might his tools as a protest against the Pekin Government...