BIGELOW BEATEN BY RUFFIANS; LA FOLLETTE EXPRESSES INDIGNATION
Bigelow Beaten By Ruffians; La Follette Expresses Indignation SEVERAL DAYS AGO Rev. Herbert S. Bige-low, pastor of the People's church at Cincinnati, while on his way to a meeting in Kentucky, was...
...Yours is no private wrong...
...Bigelow is now in a hospital recovering from his experiences...
...He has recently delivered speeches favoring a declaration of peace terms and it was because he was charged with being a pacifist that he was beaten...
...The following is a copy of a letter sent to Mr...
...And I trust you realize the sympathy and indignation that has been aroused throughout the land because of the brutal assault made upon you by a band of cowardly ruffians...
...Bigelow by Senator La Follette: Rev, Herbert S. Bigelow, Cincinnati, Ohio...
...It pleased Providence to select you for this sacrifice and service which will write your name beside those of Lovejoy and Phillips and Parker who taught another generation that no power on earth could suppress free speech in this country...
...The dastardly outrage of which you are the victim is an attack upon the liberty of every citizen of this Republic It cries to Heaven to rebuke the tyranny that dares attempt to abridge the sacred right of free speech to any peaceful assemblage in any place in the United States...
...Your record of unselfish devotion to public interest has endeared your name to the American people...
...You can not, if you would, proclaim general pardon for the miscreants who were but the blind tools of a lawless propaganda that represents only American Junkerism...
...Herbert S. Bige-low, pastor of the People's church at Cincinnati, while on his way to a meeting in Kentucky, was attacked by a band of ruffians, thrown into an automobile, taken out Into the woods where he was cruelly beaten with a whip...
...Bigelow has been a fighter for democracy for years and his battle against the special interests in Ohio has attracted nation wide attention...
...If, as press reports indicate,' it transpires that the officials charged with the administration of justice, shall fail to perform the sworn duty which the law imposes upon them, then other means will bo found to unmask and punish those who sought through this murderous attack upon you to destroy constitutional liberty...
Vol. 9 • November 1917 • No. 11
