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a solution of the various questions at
issue might be arrived at by' an au
thorized committee of disinterested
engineers, qualified to pass on the
engineering requisites and to formu
late rules of practice founded on
principle rather than precedent?
There is every assurance that a
thorough investigation of the system
would prove beneficial to all. J. Col
lins Wray.
SEX STUFF. He who indulges his
sexual appetite because of ignorance,
yet knowing such to be wrong, is par
donable, as E. K. Moy says in his criti
cism of sex indulgence by A. Critic.
It seems as if the pessimist is al
ways in print; do not smoke, or drink,
or dance, keep out of saloons, pool
rooms, smother your sex, etc. We
also have'Christ writing for us in The
Forum, Keep it up, Christ Some one
will finally believe you. They stand
for young John D. and Billy Sunday.
Wny not for you.
The act that caused my being, and
enacted by my parents without any
thought of me, was the greatest sin
gle thing ever done as iar as my
being is concerned. The grand pas
sion does not express enough to the
normal healthy in love. All other
earthly things are only a means to
an end. Reproduce your kind. The
hocus-pocus ceremonials of preach
ers, priests or magistrate will not add
or subtract from love's consumma
tion, the sexual act
A Critic tasked to read-W. S. HalL
I would suggest Solomon, Brigham
Young or a successful white slaver as
authorities on the subject Why not
read Prohibition Porel and get real
swilL To some people the only point
of interest in the Blackstone hotel
would be the garbage can.
" Critic, I wish to commend you. In
an acre of words, letter and lines on
like topics in The Forum you seem to
-be honest normal and in good health.
You are also in good intellectual com
pany. America's greatest poet, Whit
man, eulogizes the prostitute. In fact,
everybody worth while has had there
day. Joan of Acfrwas a nut Age 46.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH. When
Lord Byron's "forest-born Demos-
thenes" thundered against Virginia's
aceptance of the "constitution of
1787," until his amendments, which
guaranteed free speech, free assem
blage, etc., were embodied in it he
did so in the belif, which was general
then, that such constitutional safe
guards would prove sufficient to pro
tect posterity in its "inalienable right
to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness," and I think they would
have been if federalist judges had not
twisted and tortured the whole in
strument into a slave-making and
slave-perpetuating machine.
Given a free press, free speech
and the right to carry and bear arms,
a people worthy of liberty can secure
and maintain it, but inthe absence'
of these essentials liberty is but a
name, a mere .ghost
The question of a free press is the
-question which I am most interested
in just now. Plutocracy and its al
lied interests have secured control of
almost all great daily newspapers
and use them to mislead the masses
of the people.
A people fighting to regain control
of their government must readily see
the. necessity of having and main
taining a daily newspaper in a great
city like Chicago, for,say what we
may, Chicago is and will be the
storm center of the present and fu
ture struggles for industrial liberty.
Since my appeal Day Book read
ers, published about 20 days ago, a
number of very good suggestions on
how to increase its circulation have
been published.
Mr. Feron suggested that each
reader send a "chain letter" to non
readers, asking them to buy The
Day Book. X. X. calls on all union
members to see that secretaries send
their announcements and have them
published in The Day Book. George
Rodgers wants every reader to be a,
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