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scious of the gallery, and who seemed anxious to state his convictions, pointed out clearly the danger of such Foundations to our universities and other educational institutions to which they contribute, how they must inevitably defend the ideas of the monopolist, who supports them, how in the end it means death to the free expression of free individuals. He also said that unless a great change took place, and there were jobs competing for men, instead of men for jobs, conditions would grow worse.
A fortnight of hard work and serious endeavor on the part of the commissioners, an expectant audience on the whole eagerly hoping for some enlightenment, yet not a word of significance has been spoken, nor a ghost of a solution suggested. It is not in the Chambers of Federal Investigation Committees that the question between Capital and Labor can be settled.
THE SANGER CASE
ON Tuesday, January 19th, William Sanger was arrested in his studio in New York by Anthony Comstock. The "crime" with which Mr. Sanger was charged was that of having handed to a visitor, a few days previously, a copy of a pamphlet on "Family Limitation," written by Mrs. Sanger. The visitor had represented himself as an honest inquirer and as a member of the Socialist Party.
The arrest is an outrage and should be resented by every fair-minded man and woman. Anthony Comstock, self-appointed censor of our morals, appears once more as a man who is ready to steal upon his victims like a thief in the night and to use any weapon, however dirty, to accomplish his purposes. He may have a "case," in the present instance, from the viewpoint of our absurd and antiquated laws, but he has no case whatever in the real Court of Reason.
America is now almost the only civilized country in which it is "against the law" to discuss the most vital and important sex-questions. For thirty-seven years The Malthusian has been disseminating in England, without hindrance from the Government, information regard-
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