You Can't Do That: A Survey of the Forces Attempting, in the Name of Patriotism, to Make a Desert of the Bill of Rights PDF
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50/ CatUDcThat AUTHOR OF UmCoMVcUtiTUii! '*°''*. h, '^iziJt, _ res* ^'^ ,,^^^o^ . ^'•oow ^^ *-'>/,°^t^. "'Pert :<'::t-< "'' 'koii "•"i-p, YOU CANT DO THAT by George Seldes THE BOOK — Liberty —we talk about it, write about it, sing about it but have we got it? In this pungent, hard-hitting book George Seldes shows just how American liberty is threatened, and from what sources we have most to fear. What part do the police and the courts play in destroying our civil liberties? What organizations, and what individuals, are engaged in openly flouting American traditions of freedom or in more subdy and secredy undermining them? All these he reveals in this explicitly documented account, an indispensable weapon of defense for every American who cares about preserving this "Sweet land of liberty." THE AUTHOR George Seldes was working for the United Press in London when the United States entered the war. In 1918 and 1919 he served as war corre- spondentwith theA.E.F. For nineyearsafter that he was the chief of the Chicago Tribune bureau in Berlin. He served in Moscow, 1921-22; Rome, 1925; and covered the French army campaign in Syria in 1926-27. Seldes was born in New Jersey in 1890. After doing work as a special student at Harvard he began his writing career as a reporter on the Pittsburgh Leader in 1909. Known today as a journalist who has been an uncompromising champion of civil liberties in Europe and Amer- ica, Seldes is the author of seven illuminating books on national and internadonal affairs, in- cluding YOU CAN'T PRINT THAT!, FREE- DOM OF THE PRESS, and the recent book on Mussolini, SAWDUST CAESAR. MODERN AGE BOOKS, Inc. 155 East 44th Street, New York 50^ You Can't Do That OTHER BOOKS BT GEORGE SELDES YOU CAN'T PRINT THAT! The truth behindthe news CAN THESE THINGS BE! WORLD PANORAMA 1918-1933 IRON, BLOOD AND PROFITS Anexposure ofthe world-wide munitionsracket VATICAN: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW FREEDOM OF THE PRESS SAWDUST CAESAR Theuntoldhistory ofMussoliniandFascism You Cant Do That A survey of the forces attempting, in the name of patriotism, to make a desert of the Bill of Rights hy George Seldes ^0 Modern Age Books New York COPYRIGHT 1938 BY GEORGE SELDES PUBLISHED BY MODERN AGE BOOKS, INC. [bMG UOPWA 18] . Allrightsin thisbookarereserved^ anditmaynot he reproducedinwholeorinpartwithoutwrittenpermis- sionfrom theholderoftheserights. Forinformation addressthepublishers. ComposedandprintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyUnionLabor ATTHERUMFORDPRESS,CONCORD,NEWHAMPSHIRE Typography by RobertJosephy Thecoldstops. Rainsfall. Thesunshines. Therigorsandterrorsof naturecome to an end. But therigor andterror ofman against man never cease. Vve seen it. Iknow. In textile mills, railroadyards, on docks, inthestreets. Machinegunsmowingdownmenin Wisconsin. MenandwomenhoundedandfloggedandtorturedinSanFrancisco. — Riot squads, strikebreakers, nausea gas bayonets! And starva- tion! Andvoicescrying out! Forwhat?A little bread, a littlesun, a littlepeace anddelight. Pveheardthem, Itellyou. Vve seen. AndI know. This is reality, this is the stuffour senses aregorged with. Russet Mantle, by Lynn Riggs {FrenchandCo., iQjS) To Kyle Crichton . CONTENTS PART LIBERTY OR LAW i: Foreword ix You Can't Do That 1. 3 2. It Happens Everywhere 6 3. Lawless Enforcers of the Law 25 4. Law versus Liberty 39 5. When Blood is Their Argument 55 PART ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE 11: 6. Chamber of Commercial Patriots 73 7. The Press versus The People 84 8. The League against American Liberty 102 The 100% American Legion no g. 10. Merchants of Patriotism and Death 128 11 Good Profits in Patriotism 138 12. Distant Daughters of the Revolution 144 13. Crusaders, Sentinels, Vigilantes 153 14. Elks and Other Better Americans 162 PART hi: the PRE-FASGIST PATTERN IN AMERICA 15. A Man on Horseback 173 16. The Fascist Pattern: Men 185 17. The Fascist Pattern: Guns 194 18. The Fascist Pattern: Money 206 PART rv: THE PRICE OF LIBERTY 19. Eternal Vigilance 219 20. Enlightenment in Madrid 232 Appendices 243 Bibliography 255
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