The Freedom of the Press.
By Editor
The Farmers’ National Congress which met in New Orleans November 8 of last year, passed a resolution which ought to be spread far and wide: “Resolved that a free and fearless press is of such great importance in safeguarding our liberties that no legislation abridging the freedom of the press should be enacted by Congress, and no legislation should be enacted by Congress unless it has been duly referred to and acted on by the proper committee of both houses, and opportunity has been had for free debate thereon in both the House and the Senate.” The resolution is pertinent and timely. Our Roman Catholic friends are doing everything in their power to shut out all criticism of Romanism and its methods. Whatever is right can afford to be fair, and even more than fair; and a cause that can not be given the widest, fullest publicity ought to go down. We are glad that the Farmers’ National Congress recommends that a free press is the safeguard of liberty, that it stands against the abridging of that freedom. We wish that every other organization in the United States could awake to the dangers which menace freedom in this land.