BIG BILL THOMPSON [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] •
cannot grieve as deeply as you imagine most of us do in this country over the acts and utterances of Mayor Thompson of Chicago. In the first place I can't see why any of us here should be apprehensive concerning the impression that Big Bill may Make upon folks across the Atlantic or across the St. Lawrence. You must know us well enough by this time to be proof against any new attacks from Big Rill or from Brother Hearst.
And on the contrary I can imagine that Mayor Thompson's performances, like those of the amazing censors of fiction in Boston, may be productive of good. The natural resentment against such acts will stimulate, I should think, in American free libraries and other educational institutions an ambition to be freer than ever from the domination of hatred, ignorance,
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