De Silver asks American Civil Liberties Union members to allow the use of their names in an advertisement regarding the International Workers of the World free speech case.
The author sympathizes with the McNamara brothers, who bombed the Los Angeles Times building in California in October 1910, because they were insane but criticizes the Chicago newspapers for responding with bigotry against the Irish community.
Wood stresses the importance of defending the publication "The Masses" in the upcoming legal dispute, because it will set the precedent for future cases involving the freedom of the press.