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No. 2 [Serial No. 23J February" 1920' To those who sailed away on the Buford, our national EDITORIALS worship of liberty and due process of law has long BY MAX EASTMAN. had a hollow sound. Most of them were not anarchists, many of them were not even revolutionists; some were HE sailing from New York harbor of the "Soviet veterans of the war' for democracy; one at least had T Ark," containing deported European workingmen, never heard of Alexander Berkman. But it is safe to is one of those events which signalize the passing of a say that they were all completely disillusioned of the period in history. This might be described as the period dream of liberty and opportunity which brought th,em o()£ the Myth ·0f American Freedom. It is true that a here; and had they been treated with decent regard for . great forwarcd step was taken by our republic in the their rights as human beings and members of families, .abolition of kings and the feudal nobility; indeed the had they been supplied with adequate clothing and pro­ wealth of unoccupied land and unseized opportunity visions for their first days in a strange, cold and starving created almost a real or economic freedom in our earliest country, there would have been little dismay or surprise ,days.