To befool and mislead the people, to falsify public opinion, is to pervert and destroy a republican form of government. Free government is government… - Robert M. La Follette

The setting up of a new, invisible and all powerful government in this country, within the last twenty years, in open violation of fundamental and statutory law, could not have been accomplished under the steady fire of a free and independent press.

The mobbing of harmless, helpless Negroes in the capital of this country is the nation's everlasting shame. The responsibility for starting the riots, which ruled Washington for days, rests upon disorderly lawless whites. Peaceable, unoffending colored men and boys were beaten up and murdered by brutes who boast of our white civilization.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.