Is free speech un-American?

• Author: La Follette, Robert, Jr.
• Position: 1926 - Brief article

March 1926

"Let them go out, or at least keep silent and refrain from holding up to American children false, decadent ideals," says the Chicago Tribune in a characteristic tirade on "pacifism lifting its yellow head." The Tribune poses as the guardian of American ideals, as the champion of the true over the false, but like many other large-talking...