Life — February 2, 1911 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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IFE is not a newspaper. If it were, its readers would long ago have known of the Warren Case. The Warren trial and conviction is one of the most momentous and far-reaching of recent events, and yet the great majority of our newspapers have been silent about it. Several million Socialists are up in arms about it. All lovers of the square deal and of the best things in the American constitution and of the noblest traditions of the American spirit would be indig- nant over it, if they knew the facts. But in this case the newspapers have kept back the news. Why? Perhaps some day they will tell us. Meanwhile Lire is compelled to depart from its regular work and ask its readers to listen to a few brief facts. Mr. Fred Warren is the editor of the Appeal to Reason, a Socialist weekly published in Girard, Kansas. At the time of the kidnapping of Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, Mr. Warren was pained to observe that the United States Supreme Court (Justice McKenna alone dissenting) condoned the kidnapping of these men and their forci- THE SOCIAL CLIMBER Mix a season of snubs with some cuts and a 10) And sprinkle with buckers of * dust ‘LIFE: The Warren Case ble detention without due process of law Mr. Warren suspected that if these men had been Republicans or capitalists, their constitutional rights would have been protected. In order to put his view to the test, ne caused to be circulated 15,000 letters upon the envelopes of which was printed the following: “One thousand dollars reward will be paid to any person whe kidnaps ex-Gov- ernor Taylor and returns him to the Kentucky authorities.” That was all. But it was notorious that at the time Taylor was under in- dictment for complicity in the murder of Governor Gocbel. But Mr. Warren did not go into his experiment recklessly. He had been bothered by the postal authorities be- fore. So, while he knew he was doing no more than sheriffs and penitentiary wardens and detective bureaus and surety companies are doing every day, he nevertheless took the precaution to ask the postmaster at Girard whether or not the letters were mailable. Soon after, Mr. Warren was arrested on the charge of sending “ scurrilous, The Human Cook Book defamatory and thremening matter through the mail.” This simple case loomed big after the government tackled it. For some three years it struggled with the law and the facts and, after the election of last fall, the Court of Appeals, the last resort in a case of this kind, found him guilty, sentenced him to pay a fine of $1500 and to spend six months in jail at hard labor. It may be a mere detail that, in the meantime, ex-Governor Taylor was par- doned and is still at large, Questions. ‘hy this strange silence on the part of the many yood Republican organs of the country? Why do ‘they not gloat over this vindication of our judiciary and point to it as proof of our enduring liberty? Why do they not fol- low up their advantage and deny that our courts are unfair, nut to say stupid and pucrile? Why do they not give the conviction of this Socialist as much space as if he had been divorced from his wife. It surely cannot be that they are ashamed. The press ix mightier than the sword and is ashamed of nothing. naan imerenen CREE CCE CO. may oy Takz a peach—and cemove both her parents: Add_a suggestion of dough. Garnish with bonbons and. flowers, Remove undesirable friends of the past, And turn down thi Add the motto, “Four bundred or bust!” raison she: Kaa rather Jes comicbooks.com