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While no action will be taken to punish holiday cuts, it was, nevertheless, made clear that such cuts will be noted and will be counted against the offender in case he slips from good standing at any subsequent time...
...free as other legal commodities ... for exportation." "...Our citizens would be corrupted [if export liquor were outlawed] the traffic would be diffused. . . . The Canadian law would be violated and the duty would be laid on the Government of Canada to maintain a greatly augmented preventive force and punish the violation of ... a law which, after all, would only be enacted to assist in the enforcement of the law of a foreign country...
...continue to place a premium on such action, and take no steps to punish it, future transatlantic planes will have to be built with special cabins for stowaways, and Congress will have to establish some new honor to confer on such people. On the other hand if Schrieber received a jail sentence or a heavy fine, which would offset the thousands he is making now, the danger of the recurrence of such actions would be greatly lessened...
...admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting out to persecute any newspaper...
...McCormick described the Minnesota law as "tyrannical, despotic, un-American and offensive," declared that it would place the press in a position where it could be silenced by any corrupt administration. Hitherto the courts have had power to punish libelous publications, but this law gives them power to prevent publications entirely. What is more it enables a whole file of a paper, extending over a period of three months or more, to be placed in evidence, and permits stopping publication entirely unless the publisher can prove every statement that has appeared in all that time?a thing practically impossible...