The system of irregular spying by irresponsible persons upon the very words used in private conversation, becoming as established an institution as the transactions of the Gestapo in Germany. The obvious practices of Titus Oates are to be revived n every town and village.
There is nothing in the attitude of the public, in the action of the press, or in the proceedings of any recognizable group of persons in this land, which justifies this policy of suppress sion, espionage and persecution.
In the Great War there were powerful and well organized sections of opinion in this country that agitated for peace and even created difficulties in the prosecution of the war. There were no prosecutions for the expression of pacifist opinion. Ram-
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