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Source: Commoner Source type: newspaper Document type: editorial Document title: none Author(s): anonymous City of publication: Lincoln, Nebraska Date of publication: 27 September 1901 Volume number: 1 Issue number: 36 Pagination: 6 |
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[untitled]. Commoner 27 Sept. 1901 v1n36: p. 6. |
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Keywords |
anarchism (dealing with); anarchism (government response); the press (censorship). |
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none. |
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If, as a precaution against anarchy, the republicans make it unlawful for a newspaper to criticise an executive officer, they must be careful to see that the law is not retroactive. It is only a few years since the republican papers criticised the President, and some of them have been known to criticise Democratic and Populist governors even more recently[.]