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In the Driftway
September 28, 1918 issue

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Street speaking in New York has miserably gone off in tone and quality under the inquisition of the self-styled patriotic societies. Aside from its constitutional sanction, the great argument for free speech is its reaction on the speaker. When the soap-boxers have to defy the police or the loose-footed janizaries of some irresponsible and meddling "defence" association, they become truculent, provoking, uncompromising. When there is no one to defy, they become reasonable, conciliatory, self-respecting.

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FREEDOM of speech; NEW York (State) -- Politics & government; CIVIL rights -- United States; CONSTITUTIONAL law; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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