Woodrow Wilson to AS Burleson

I am afraid you will be shocked, but I must say that I do not find this hearing very convincing. Some of the things quoted probably cross the line and I have very little doubt that they were all intended to have sinister results, but I must frankly say that I do not think that most of what is quoted ought to be regarded as unmailable. I have read the hearing with some feeling of misgiving as to the impression that was created upon the representatives of the paper which had been summoned, not because I doubt for a moment the purposes or the intelligence or the careful and conscientious methods of the public officials concerned, but because there is a wide margin of judgment here and I think that doubt ought always to be resolved in favor of the utmost freedom of speech.

It does not appear from the hearing what was done. Was the paper, as they so earnestly urged, given another chance?

Cordially and faithfully yours,
Woodrow Wilson


Encs.


Hon. Albert S. Burleson,
Postmaster General.