When you have men admitting that they deliberately write these articles and promote these newspapers with a view of furthering murderous action, to talk of the freedom of the Press in connection with that is wicked moonshine.
Morley condemns the idea of discussing press freedom in the context of articles promoting violence, calling it misguided.
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