DECADE OF OFFICIAL TERRORISM
BEARD, CHARLES A.
DECADE OF OFFICIAL TERRORISM Gagging of t^arolyi Called Another Instance of Bureaucracy Freedom in the Balance. Noted Historian Declares By CHARLES A. BEARD IT ib not my purpose to answer the...
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...He protests against the use of the war powers in time of peace...
...I want to lift up my voice against th» executive order under which tale action waa taken—agaimt the measure of Congress on which it it beaed—against the war statute in ahich this new form of tyranny ¦rifinated—against the whole tendency of Congress to confer on the Resident blanket authority over natter* of life and liberty—against Jit practice of entrusting autocratic sewers, without definite boundariei ad headlands, to obscure buretu-Sata in Washington...
...Th* President of the United Stat** sent the steam frigate Mississippi for him andi brought him away from hia prison...
...Not at all...
...Who is the jurist and patriot who made that declaration...
...Russian Despotism came to the aid of Austrian despotism...
...In Thi$ Issue A Dreed* of Official T*rrorbra ...........Pag* » By CHARLES A. BEARD An Inexhaustible Supply..-Pago 1 By ART YOUNG Th* Bolshevik Gag on Fr*o Speech.......Page * By ROGER BALDWIN Ttd...
...It is entitled "An Act to Prevent in Time of War Departure From or Entry Into the United States Contrary „o Public Safety...
...The Hon...
...On the contrary, the people greeted him with acclaim...
...He admits the alien, but under Offensive restrictions that savor of the atmosphere of the hospital and lunatic asylum rather than of the air of America—the land that gave to the world Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln...
...On the contrary, the Con...
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...The Imperial Aust.ro Hungarian Government looked on with unconcealed anger...
...The Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, greeted him cordially...
...And now what is the Act of May 22, 1918, which thus creeps into the laws of peace like a thief in the night...
...They have allowed their lower minions to blazon on the first page* of the newspapers as outlaws and moral lepers etisens whose sole offense has been the eiercise of jawful rights in a manner not pleasing to the powers and potentates in Washington...
...He has allowed the spokesman of the War Department to harry American women engaged In the lawful—if unwise—business of appealing to the humane sentiments of the American people...
...He insulted Count Karolyi and he insulted us by a mean and narrow exercise of power—on* meaner and narrower than a "bold and defiant exclusion of the stranger at his gates...
...Whore have been the judges of th* high courts...
...Noted Historian Declares By CHARLES A. BEARD IT ib not my purpose to answer the critics of Count jficfrael Karolyi or to pass gnent on the merits of any cal controversy in HunI intend merely to consider the American rights involved Id the case and to join in the protest against a decision* of the State Department, that intuits our intelligence—a deci-lion to the effect that we are not morally fit to hear anything that Count Karolyi may care to say on the subject...
...He was received'by the President, by the Sen* ate and by the House of Representatives...
...So do we...
...If did net.' It Stood fast Ths Imperial spokesman in Washington, Hulsemann, threw up hia post and left the capital in a huff...
...And in the Karolyi cane, instead of making a generous interpretation of th* authority conferred upon him by law and setting a noble precedent for all time, he gave comfort to the enemies of liberty...
...Hughes sober with solemn thought about the future of America in the academic groves at Harvard...
...And did the Governjib...
...I By a curious turn of fate that...
...They have coerced and terror-lied prisoners, innocent and guilty alike...
...of the ruling In thia new Hungarian case— a repeal of th* law under which it was nominally made —sn indignant repudiation of th* spirit in which it waa conceived-— snd the substitution of precise legs...
...In 1848 Ejiropc was devastated by a wide sweeping revolution...
...fW h«ve entered hcuses and MaRhed, premises and documents witho»i any shadow of justification •r authority...
...This measure, passed in the great days of the war for liberty and democracy, opens ty saying: "That when the United States is at war, if the President shall find that the public safety requires," he may by proclamation put restrictions on the admission of aliens to i |g United State* at bis pleasure—restrictions In addition to those already laid down in law...
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...which ara essential to th«| preservation of the Nation in time of war, exercised broadly after the military exigency had passed and in conditions for which they were not intended, and we may well wonder, in view of the precedent now established, whether constitutional Government as heretofore maintained in this Republic could survive another great war even victoriously waged...
...Then he condemned the use of war statutes in time of peace, the use of war powers in conditions for which they were not intended...
...It is bssed upon an authority so high and so commanding that even the State Department may take notice...
...It does not rest on my poor researches...
...Pag* <z Th* Chatter Bow.......Pa,e I 2 By S. A. DK WITT British Labor and tho la>*rnalional .......Page IS Br OSCAR POLLACK...
...After a sojourn in England Kossuth sailed on an American ship to this country...
...We rely upon American traditions, practices and laws of older aad nobler days—upon that reasoned liberty which alone can guarantee the safe snd hsppy development of our country through all the troublous years of the future...
...His enemies pursued him...
...They have destroyed and carried off private property...
...of th* Weak...
...In a word, it is with the almost unanimous sanction of the so-called great and good that the Government of the United States has set these precedents...
...It is therefore in the name of tho best American principles and practices that we should demand n re* versa...
...Hughes so grandly refers us...
...k* Record of a Terror The present case is but one straw skewing the wind* of tendency...
...According To Hughe* Speaking to the Harvard law alumni on a rare June day in 1920, one of the first jurists and finest patriots in America said: "We went to war for liberty and democracy, with the result that we fed the appetite for autocracy...
...Kossuth fled for his life te Turkey, win re he was lodged in prison...
...It Is the practice which he condemned at Harvard which we condemn now...
...And he has not done this secretly or inadvertently...
...The Case of Louis Kossuth In lodging our complaint against the ruling of the State Department in this case, we can also appeal to a great precedent in a great American tradition...
...Harlan F. Stone, did on taking office, and at one stroke swept sway the accumulated vermin of a decade...
...Aad whine have been the pillar* of society—the bishops, the cl*rgy, the college president*, and the **lf-cen*tituted guardians ef American institutions...
...And there thr precedents threaten the destruction of constituted freedom in the next great'crisis that comes upon us...
...of the...
...History will take notice of it...
...The revolution was stamped out in blood...
...Imperial Gov't Flouted A Congressional dinner waa given in his honor...
...Page 4 An Open Letter From R. ABRAMOWITCH Pag* S Art and Personality...
...They have made wholesale raids worthy of Buns and Cossacks...
...There he told us of the precedents that threaten the destruction of constitutional government—the precedents which we condemn today...
...The pspers in this case are in the State Department...
...What do you find...
...He could hare done what his courageous colleague, Hon...
...We shall not forget it...
...Now he does what he then condemned snd defends his action on principles he then proscribed...
...Take the statutes of the United States for the year In question and plow through them to page 1217...
...They have held citizens in prison without granting them the right of immediate communication with friends and counsel...
...Daring the past decade, officers of the Government of the United States have bullied and beaten citl-tenaand aliens beyond the limits of decency They have arrested persons without warrant, on gossip and sutpteien They have Inflicted cruel and S&asual punishments on them...
...Chain-I piona of liberty in Hungary raised , th* banner ef revolt and declared their Independence...
...The Government of the United States still lived...
...Hughes drunk with power at Washington to Mr...
...Turn...
...Hughes waved his wand...
...Through a fiction permissible only because the courts cannot know what cvrryo" .• else know*, we have seen th.- wari now*r...
...gresa of the United States passed a resolution asking the President te put an American battleship at Kossuth'* disposal...
...And where is the clause toward which Mr...
...They have let loose thousands of Irresponsible spies to hound and persecute innocent citizens engaged hi attending to their own business...
...The Mayor and City Council of New York welcomed him with open arras...
...An Act standing out boldly on the page and setting forth the rights of aliens entering the United States...
...In a dramatic hour when liberty hung in the balance, Lincoln, begging the people to reject the Dred Scott decision and reconstruct the Supreme Court that made it, summed up the whole gospel: "Familiarise., yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them...
...In taking our stand with Lincoln, we invoke no abstract rights, no alien Ideas, no Utopian theories...
...The President Joined the Pack The present occupant of the White House has set his name and his sanction to an article filled with false and outrageous insinuations against American citizens as loyal and devoted to our country as he is himself...
...But he chose deliberately another course...
...A Hughes Drunk With Power In condemning this action,* we merely appeal from Mr...
...He protests against autocratic precedents in war time...
...The Vermin Of a Decade This is the high sanction to which the former,Harvard orator now appeals in justification for an action dependent in fact solely on his own judgment—-an action for which be alone mutt assume responsibility...
...test Ignoring Webster, it appealed directly to the President...
...they stuck it away obscurely in the end of an appropriation bill so that the Secretary of State could pull it out at pleas-mo and by his own will set a new precedent—one of the many which raises the question whether constitutional government ss we know it can survive many years of war or peace even victoriously wsged...
...They have employed provocative agents to stir up some of the crimes they are charged to prevent...
...Us embassy at Washington lodged ttfflelesl pro...
...terms for the whim of Federal officials...
...A War Act Continued There you find an Act making appropriations for the diplomatic and, consular service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922...
...There he also announced the principles upon which we rely in protesting against this new precedent that feeds the appetite for autocracy—this precedent which he has himself set in a time of peace, calmly and deliberately, against the plans of his fellow citizens...
...Daniel Wefltler, oblivious to proprieties, attended the dinner, and in an impassioned speech boldly aligned himself en the side of Hungarian independence...
...Did the noble Congress of freemen in Washington boldly face the issue and re-enact the law in question separately and in the full light of day...
...precedent relates to another distinguished Hungarian...
...They have engaged agents to compile memoranda designed to brand loyal citizens with the horrid taint of treason...
...Where have been the great lawyer*— the Ershin** ef America—ready to dare the wrath of king* and the »tone« of mobs and write immortal pages in the history of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence...
...A Restoration Of Freedom We demand this as the first installment in the restoration of the freedom declared by our fathers...
...Did it haggle with him in a manner worthy of a street beggar...
...It la near the end—tucked away in a single appropriation item—a few lines continuing the War Act of May 22, 1918, relative to admission of aliens...
...A portrait of the immortal Websier hangs nearby, and aa Wendell Phillips would say, I wonder that hia beetling brow did not darken and his pictured lip* did not rebuke the recreant Hughea pouring his patent disinfectant over ths passport of the new Hungarian revolutionist...
...This is an Art passed in war time, expressly for war purposes, snd limited on its face to a period when the United States is at war—this is the Act which Congress continued under the cover of sn appropriation bill...
...Did America exclude him as ant undesirable alien...
...This is not my dictum...
...They accused him of having stolen money in his youth to pay a gam-b...
...Reaction followed...
...So do we...
...The*/ charged Mm with arrogance, cowardice and duplicity...
...TKey have admitted favorites to the files df the departments in search for evidence to employ in satisfying private hatreds...
...Did ths Government ef the United State* wait for him to come and beg admission...
...On tho contrary, when the issue is made plain to him, he justifies his decision by referring us to a war statute, made in war time, for war purposes—and continued In time of pence when, if the Constitution Is] obeyed, the war powers are silent The trir'» charscter of th* miser-1 able business is revealed by an examination of the law to which Mr...
...On entering the State Department, he had a splendid opportunity before him...
...American women collected money for his cause...
...g debt...
...Charles E. Hughes...
...United States haul dofe* its flair' Did the State DepartnfaWt take orders from a foreign Government in a matter pertaining to civil liberty in America...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 12
