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oi Fresh Meats
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Steak, lb.... 171 c
al Steak, lb.. . - 222 c
Veal Stew, lb. . . . 122 c
Mutton Stew, lb. .... 10c
Boiling Beef, lb. . . . . 8c
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at
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Where Everybody Buys.
MRIRANYI 11YN I TO
iGNIRE THE WAR
Her Imperial Spy System Is
Turned Over to the New
Republic- Now, Attempt- t
ing Peaceful Penetration.
(By United Press.~
Paris (By Mail) --Germany is a
seeking to pick up just where she o
left off in July, 1914, and political- t
ly, industrially, commercially and c
oconomically is trying to act as t
though the war had never been. *a
Brazil, the Argentine, and - all
South America may Well keep their
eyes trained on what is left of the I
German 'empire, for strange stories
have reached Paris regarding the go- I
ings-on of agents of the new social- I
ist republic. t
1. They are colonizing Spain as c
rapidly as they are able.
2. They are buying up land and
obtaining various kinds of options in
Holland.
3. They are seeking to spread bol
shevik propaganda throughout allied
and friendly countries, using Swit
zerland as a base.
4. In the Argentine and elsewhere
south of the American equator, they l
are seeking a. foothold in most in
sidious fashion.
The entire spy organization which
cxisted in Switzerland during the war
and which served as the instrument
of the German general staff, has
been.turned over to the new German
government, lock, stock and barrel
and now, after a period of inaction,
is busier than. ever on their new
scheme.
Count Brockdorff-I)antzau once
White House
GROCERY
Phone 1635-W.
508 WEST PARK ST.
Guaranteed spuds, $2 25
per cwt...............
QUALITY
MEATS
sAY"-OU °SAW IT IN BULLETIN
Save carfare and patronize the
store near your home, all grocer
ies as cheap as uptown stores
Maid O' Clover Butter 60e
Shaw's Cash Gfocery
Cor. Meadle and Nettie Street
SAY YOU SAW IT IN BUILETIt'
said that holshevism is a splendid ti
"article of export" for Germany. The C
organization in Switzerland. is at
tempting that very thing--to export
bolshevism.
"Le Matin's" correspondent tele
graphs to his paper that he is in a
position to state that a conference
was recently held in Zurich at which
were present:
Lieutenant Schloss, well known for
his work during the war as one of
the chiefs of the "Special Service" C
attached to the imperial German d
general headquarters; a secretary of
the German legation in Berne; the
famous M\aroun, former consular
agent in the German service mat
Agadir, who, throughout the dura
tion of the war, was active on behalf
of the German general staff among
the peoples of Islam; the bolshevik
agent, Aaron, an Israelite, natural- P
ized Brazilian; a former Bulgarian b
agent, named Cohen, married to, a
French woman.
"This organizatiolm.. says the cur- hi
respondent, "has at its disposal a
large amount of money. It is known!
that the funds of the Unionist band
of Enver Talaat, tra,.srerred to Swit- h
zerland, amount to more than 100.
000,000 francs. To this must he
added funds from both the bolshoviks
and the Germans.
"The attention of Aaron is directed a
principally in the direction of Italy. a
"The Islamic propaganda is aimed N
rather against Algeria and Tunis.
"In short, the government of c
Scheidemann is continuing the same I
methods and is pract:cing the same
game of political intrigue as .the old
imperial government."
Similar stories have reached
France from Spain. The old spy:
system is in full swing today trying
to turn the present political situa
tion in that country to the Teuton'sa
advantage:
Special correspondence frolm Ams
terdam declares that Holland is be-,
ing absolutely invaded by Germans. I
"German salesmen," the special cor
respondent of a Par:-s paper declared,
S'aare plouring into tIolland just as
before the war: Oni one page of an
important local daily newspaper I
counted ten German advertisements
out of a total of 14."
"During the War," the same writer
continued, "the Germans bought the
principal sites in large cities for the
purpose of pirtting up cinemas and
theaters. -And when a Dutch subject
opened an exposition of an interna
tional character where samples of
commercial products were to be ex
hibited the year round, a German
immediately offered to buy up all the
space for 50,000 flor.is so that he
might control the exhibits."
South America is not going to es
cape German influence. Every in
dication is that the Germans are only
waiting until the ink is dry on the
peace treaty before making a start in
that direction. A dispatch dated
from Coblenz, American army head
quarters, reads: "Letter after letter
is. passing through the hands of the
American military censors telling of
the intentions of many Germans to
emigrate to South America. Seldom
is any mention made in any of them
of plans to go to the United States."
Paris.-By order of the prefect
of police, wounded and disabled sol
diers using public conveyances are
entitled to priority on presentation
of a special card.
-THINK ININTEREST--SAE'-
UNDED YANKS
STAJED
U'. .. =Offiers Blamed .for,
Cruelties to Soldiers p
Probing Committee Hears
of Brutalities.
Washington, Aug. 1.-(By Mail)
-An appalling story of cruelties t
and brutalities inflicted on Ameri- r
can soldiers in France by theirI
officers was unfolded today by eight
enlisted men recently returned from
'overseas before one of the house.
subcommittees investigating the war
department conduct of the war.:.
Assertions made by the men in
clude charges that wounded soldiers
just discharged from hospital were
thrown into cells of the bastile con
ducted by the American provost
marshal in Paris for the sole reason
that they had lost track of' their
units while held in hospital by
wounds.
That during this confinement rien
were beaten, starved and 'treated.
.with such abominable cruelty that
in at least onie authenticated case
suicide resulted.
That soldiers in Paris on legiti
mate leave were arrested frequent
ly by provost guards "on orders
from above" and without charges.
hearing or trial were imprisoned. in
the "bastile" and at Prison Farm
No. 2, just outside of Paris.
That one officer, known as "Hard
Boiled" Smith, at this prison farm
against. whom over 100 soldier:
brought personal charges of cruelty.
was . given for punishment only a
dishonorable discharge, although
the dangerous sentiment said to
have been aroused by the light sen
tence resulted in three years at hard
labor being handed out to Smith
when his sentence was reviewed.
The hearing was held before the
subcommittee of expenditures abroad
of which Representative Royal John
son of South Dakota, who enlisted at
a private and was wounded in the
Argonne, is chairman.
Many N. Y. Soldiers Testify.
Representative Bland of Indiana
put forward evidence in his posses
sion that .until very recently, if not
at the present time, enlisted men in
France have been forced to work at
army pay for private contractors en
gaged in rebuilding the devastated
regions, and that on demuri-ing
against this dozens have been thrown
in filthy cells by the military author
ities. Representative Dallinger of
Massachusetts read to the committee
a score of letters from other ex-sol
diers substantiating charges already
made against the cruelties of :the
military machine and asking permis
sion to testify in persoin. So far. as
possible, .in avoiding needless repeti
id tion, this opportunity will be given,
ie Chairman Johnson said.
lcki. of Co-operation.
In opening the hearing, Johnson
flatly charged the war department
with failing to co-operate with him
in efforts which he has made to se
cure information regarding the pun
ishment of officers charged with
flagrant abuses of men, often con
scripted, placed in their command.
Paul Boggs, a former student at
Columbia university, described "me
diaeval and inquistorial" condition:
at St. Anne's hotel, Paris, known a,
"the American Bastile," and at Farm
No. 2, five miles outside the city. He
enlisted in May, 1917, and went
through the battle of the Somme
with the British forces. While in
Paris on leave, he said, he was im
prisoned after being miisdirected, and
while being searched was brutally,
be' Stn.
"Many men of the prison had just
been discharged from the hospitals,"
he said. "Some of them were still
suffering from gas sores. I spent my
first night sleeping on cobblestones
in the door of a stable with oilly my
head and shoulders inside."
Men Were Starved.
"At the prison farm," he added,
"we were literally starved. I gladly
ate potato peelings. In my presence
at least 50 men were beaten. A lad
who had been fighting the Germans
in the front line trenches was hon
ored by having three of his teeth
knocked out in a prison camp."
Sidney Kemp asserted that after
leaving the hospital as a bad gas case
lie was confined, in mid-winter, in a
cold cell without blankets and with
insufficient food. Personal belong
ings were never returned, he said.
Letters from other dislhai"ged sol
diers reiterate this charge and com
ment on the fact that the Germans,
after capturing Americans would al
ways leave them their money and
personal tokens.
According to Kemp, Smith, the
officer in charge of the prison farm,
said to the men as they were dis
cnarged: "if any of you birds come
back for personal property I'll start
you in on bread and water. There's
lots of barbed wire to" be` ut alid lots
of dead to bury."
Charles Goldberg testified that
when he refused to .surrender his
money belt to an officer in St. Anne's
hotel he was beaten with a blackjack
until lie gave it up.
Idears Shattered.
"We came into the war under tht
tervor of an ideal, or at least many
of us did," said Louis Weitzenkorn
- of the A. E. F., "and at any rate we
Swere tola any number of beautiful
things by Mr. Wilson and his mouth;
piece, Mr. Creel. Likewise the news
papers have drawn beautiful and gay
y ly humorous pictures of our lives, but
- if you think these yarns are true and
r doubt mine get under the skin of the
e infantry doughboy or tank corps man,
f or, for that matter, the buck privates
o in any branch of the service who
a have seen overseas duty, and if you
a can prevent him from, filling you;
with a lot of. bull he'll tell you a few
stories you'd do well to remember
t when the queptioli of compulsory
i- military training comes up."
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Result. Phone 52.
The Pathetic Case of Ireland
BY RICH.RD W. WolE', ti
The separation of Ireland from S
England would remove the motive a
for British .opposition, the result oft
which is, that it takes 10, 20 or 40 s
per cent more brain and more llenergy
for people of Irish blood to accom
plish the samte things than it requires
from people:of other races.
This geparation would he a bene
fit to England, and the English
people, 't it would be a bejnefit to
Irelantd and the Irish race. It would
remove ,friction among races that
would otherwise be friendly. Besides.
as the Irish race in America consti
tutes one-fifth of its population, it
:goes without saying, that injury to
this portion of~ America's p.)ulation
means injury'to the entire nation. A
portion of a colnmunity cannot suf
ý;r without qorresponding loss to the
entire community.
Political Discriumid ation.
To illustrate the handicap of the i
Irish elemunt.in America permit me
to drawv attention to the present Dem-i
ocratic admiillistration. There is not
a imai of the race in the president's
cabinet, althd" there are two men in
:t born unhdr the British flag. This
is so,. notwi.t!hstanding the fact that
:t is said more than SO per cent of
the Irilsh vote go to the Democratic
oarty, and that this vote is the back
bone of the party in the North. In
this regaird, the present gdministra
t ion is no exception to former ones.
and only illustrates the difficulties
mlnder which the race labors because
SAf English hostility.
Foreign propaganda is Britain's
high art, as to "divide and conquer"
is Britain's pet policy. How well
the has succeeded in America in this
policy of divide and conquer, setting
Sace against race, in hostile camps, is ;
1 tribute to her skill, as it is a cause'
"or alarm to us who love the re
public.
Let it be always remembered thatt
there is not now, and there never has
been any quarrel between the people
of Ireland and the people of England.
. The British soldiers in Ireland who
are shooting down the Irish people
d are not doing so of their own will.
[ They are sent to do this, just as the
-3erman soldiers were sent to shoot
e the people of Belgium, while there
d was no enmity between the simple
-Belgian peasants and the honest
a people of Germany.
English People Just. w
The English people are justice lov- II
!ng and genprous, and they are fight- ic
ing against the autocracy of England g
just as the Germanl people were c
struggling against the autocracy of
Prussia. The brutal autocracies of It
Prussia, Austria and Russia have P
been swept away. The British £em- :
pire alone, with the Japanese empire It
stands as the only survival of o
medieval autocracy. Britain is ruled P
by a caste system, all the propaganda o
and camouflage about British democ
:acy to the contrary, notwithstand
ing. Britain is ruled by a hereditary u
hiouse of 'lords, some 580 members, 0
more than 500 of whom are English,
and to which bishops of the.church of
England belong. The king is their a
head, not the representative of de- ,
mocracy. The law of primogeniture
and entail still prevails in England.
English Land Owners. h
Twenty families in England own V
two-thirds of the land of England. L
Land in England is worth less now S
than It was a generation ago. There i
itre fewer than 100,000 owners of 0
'and in England, while there are
8,000,000 of land owners in France i
n the year 1907 there were less than t
2,000,000 of People working on the I
lands of England, while in the same t
year there were 20,000,000 of people t
;mployed on the lands of Germany. s
Twenty-five per cent of the people 5
iwho died in England, before the war, 1
were buried in paupers' graves, I
while one-third of the people there 1
were constantly up against the star
vation line.
Caste System.
Against this brutal caste system
and the deplorable conditions it har
produced in England, the great
masses of the English people are
now, and have always been strug
gling. It is this blind, greedy, merci
less caste system which has its hee!
upon the neck of Ireland. While the
results in England are bad, the re
sults in Ireland are, of course, fat
worse. When the Englishman leave,
his native country the doors of oppor
tunity are open to him; when the
Irishman leaves his native land, be
ing of a subject race, the doors ol
opportunity are closed against him
largely. The Irish tone of voice it
called a brogue, and is ridiculed; the
Englishman's voice is called an "ac
cent" and is imitated. If England
were put in Ireland's place, and Ire
land in England's place, the term:
"brogue" and "accent" would be
transposed, and the Englishman
would soon realize what servitude
meant, as the Irishman would realize
what liberty meant. Because of lim
ited opportunities, and not because
of inferior brain, the average man o0
50 in Ireland knows less about busi
ness and the practical affairs of the
world than a niuch younger man it
other countries that are progressive
and prosperous.
Populaltion.
The grievances of Ireland are no!
ancient, they are now present. Ii
the year 1800 the population of Ire
land was 6,000,000, while the"popu
lation of England was 8,000,000. I0
the year 1847 the population of Ire
land iwas 9,000,000. Now the popu
lation of Ireland is less than 4,500,
000, while the population of Eliglant
is 36,000,000. The decay of the
population is an arrow sign of thi
decay of the eountry in other ways
in'dustrially, socially, educationally
The population of Ireland measure(
by that of ther European countries
such as Belgium, should be 25,000,
000 to 30,0,00,0u0. Belgium, 'wit'
a population of 8,000,000, is onl:
one-third the size of Ireland and ha
less resources than Ireland.
Ireland has an area of 5 per celn
greater than the combined area o
s Belgium and Holland, and is large
than Denmark and Switzerland coin
biled. Ireland's current revenue i
equal to the combined revenues o
Denmark, Switzerland. Norway ant
Greece, and is only 25 per cent les
than that of Spain. Ireland is re
ported to have the least crime qf an
European country, but her govern
ment is the most expensive. A Brit
ish lord lieutenant of Ireland, a mere
figurehead, gets 11 annual salary of
$125,000, considerlably larger tha
ii
that of the, president of the United'
States, whose salary is $75.000 per
annum; other official, salaries of
British appointed officials are corre
spondingly high.
Commercial Advantage.
When the commerce of tlhe world
turned from the East to the West,
from the valley of the Granges to
ward the valley of the Mississilipi,
Great Britain and Ireland, because
of their geogiraphical location, be
came, in the highway of commerce,
what the busiest corner of the busy
center of city life is to the great city;
what, for example, the corner of'
State and Madison streets is to Chi
cago.
It is to this natural advantage, and
not to British arms, British diplo
inacy, nor British superiority in other
ways, that Eligland's greatness is
due. The British flag, British diplo
macy and British arms have followedi
and not preceded British business.:
There is plenty proof of British blun
dering in diplomacy and arms. But
business never sleeps, it is ever alert,
ii is ever calculating, cold, brutal,
bloody.
This British superiority is a myth.
Could there be any proof of this more
rIconvincing than is supplied by the
fact that England, with all lher ad
- vantages, in a short ,generation was
i rapidly losing her trade, at home and
abroad, to Germany, a country away
from the sea, and with a soil worn
iout and poor and njich of it utterly
barren? No! England's wealth is
not produced by England's brain and
Smuscle; it is wrung from the sweat
and toil of others.
English Exploitation,.
S It is the tragedy not alone of a
race or of nation, but the tragedy of
all mankind that one burly, bully
e nation stands over the world to strike
down any particular nation that rises
tby reason of hard work, industry,
!economy, patience and perseverance,
thereby arousing thie jealousy and in
viting destruction by the powerful
one. It is the super trust, the trust
o of all trusts, depriving the world of
the blessings of the growth of mind,
of discoveries and inventions, and the
development of natural and human
resources. England has excluded
Ireland from the advantage of coin
m lercial location on the highway of
the seas, and has monopolized the
advantage all to herself. So that,
were you to shil all eutonmobile, a
p iano, a chair or table from Amler
t- ica to Ireland tile articles must first
id go to England, that the English mner
recchant may get his profit. Ireland
)f is the closest point to America, but
)f merchant ships do not land at Irish
,e ports, although Irish ports are un
i- excelled by aily in the world. Eng
e land is a great nation, not because
)f of any inherent superiority of her
md people, but because of the advantages
la of commnercial location.
sXCCSS T'axalOII.
Besides, England is imposing a tax
upon ireland of approximately $100,
000,000 a year more than it takes
to run the government of Ireland.
And further, a British commission,
appointed to investigate the subject,
reported that England had taken
from Ireland in excess taxation about
$1,600,000,000. The business Eng
land did before the war with Ireland
was second only to that with the
United States. With the United
States the business done annually by
England in round figure:, was $775,
000,000; with Ireland, $675,000,000;
with Germany, $600,000,00; with
Prance, $300,000,00.0. So that with
the profit from this business, ta
gether with the amount. of xcens!,,
taxation, it may be fairly estimated
that England's profit from an en
slaved Ireland is $200,000,001 a
year. Even so, it is the policy of
blind greed for England to en lave
Ireland, because a free Ireland, lp'os
porous and fully populated, would be
yet a more profitable customer anlid
wertainly a better friend for Eng
land.
Blockade.
The blockade of Ireland's ports
and commerce by England has been
more effective than was the hlockad c
if Germany during the great war by
the allies.
To prove this statement you may
lurn to page 74 of "The Statesman's
Year Book," a British publication,
and there you will find that the
total annual export business of the
United Kingdom, before the war,
,nhgland, Scotland and Wales did
19.7 per cent, while Ireland did .3
per cent. Let your mind rest for a
moment upon that statement that
you may get part at least of the
tragedy therein revealed-Ireland's
)art of the export business of the
United Kingdom less than one-third
if 1 per cent!
Do you find here the force of
Iritish propaganda about a prosper
)ut Ireland?
Scotland.
It is said Scotland is content-why
lot Ireland? This is thrown up for
'amouflage and propaganda. Those
vho say this know well the reasons.
Ihore have never been any hostile,
mlien settlements of IEnglishmen in
lcotland, as there have been of
icotch and English in Ireland.
In Scotland the, law is adminis
ered by Scotch Imnm, the schools
tanaged, the banks and railroads
)wied, the board of trade and stock
.xchanges controlled by Scotch. In
reland, an alien and hostile minority
dministers alien law, owns the rail
oads and the banks, controls the
chool system, the boards of trade
Ind the stock exchanges, holds it
elf aloof from the national life and
'aintains hostility to the aspirations
,f the great majority of the people.
'his minority proclaims itself the
;arrison in Ireland of the British
uling class. Suppose Germany or
7ngland conquered this country, and
,lanted on the northeast corner of
. a hostile settlement to govern, con
rol and exploit the rest of us, how
hould we feel? We hear much of
he hypheniated American, but the
,yphenated American is devoted to
kmerica and the flag. The hyphe
ated in Ireland is different;
e fights the interests of the country
a which he lives.
This intolerant and intolerable
ainority has nothing in common with
le numbers of bthers who came to
reland at various times from Scot
and and England,- and who have be
ome more Irish than the Irish them
elves.
Ileligious Question.
The religious issue in Ireland is a
retext of the British propagandist.
ME ATS
We ale nioithing but tlite fine[l Ihee, all government
SOur Prices Are the LOWEST
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Southwest corner, 128 E. Par~k St.
Phone 2248-J.
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SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE BULLETIN
SNAPPY NEW MODELS
You will find them at our store
Soniethinig different rotii wha Dad )worer Take a look.
ovir our line of gui ds--tle prtices ar' right.
A SUIT MADE FOR YOU ............................ $25 AND UP
Save T'lroli $10 to $ 15 i our uincalltled for suits.
Tlohey are classy.
THE FASHION TAILORING CO.
M. MORRIS 47 W. PARK
SAY YOU SAYW IT IN 111.H IIULLETIN
Were there no other proof of this.
it would be sufficient to know that
for the past 100 years nearly all the
leaders of national Ireland against
British rule have been Protestants.
The fight against Ireland, in. a ii
word, comes from a combination of
the caste system and the economic
exploiters in England. This same 1I
infamous combination is threatening
the very life of our republic. To save I
our republican institutions, and to
save the Irish race from threatened I
extinction, is i cause which appealr
to all lovers of liberty, to all who be
lieve in the principle of self-determni
nation-the right of peoples to choose
the form of government under which
they live and for which we went to
war and spent our blood and treas
ure. This appeal to the hearts of
red blooded Americans, of whatever
race, cannot be in vain.
We rejoice with the other races
who have recently secured their lib
eity-the Poles, Jews, Bohemians,
others whose namtes are less familiar i
to us in America. We congratulate ý
them that the securing of their lib
erty did not interfere with Britain's
plans, because if it did their aspira
tion for liberty would not now be ,
realized.
The people of Ireland,, in a peace
ful and orderly mnanner, have set up
a republican form of government.
This was done by means of the bal
lot, under English law and the sulper
vision of English officials. As we
haive given our syllihathy and sup
port to the other races to secure their
liberty, we also give to the people of
Ireland our synlpathy and sulpport to
mlaintain their liberty. Surely, the
clails upon us for support fron i
other races in their struggle for lib
erty cannot be greater thali the
claims of the people of Ireland.
The slave minded everywhere are
Ihe despair of the men of spirit who
try to break the chairs that bind
them. The victims of oppression are
oftell the uncomlpromlising supporters
I of the oplpression from which they
suffer. They are attracted to wealth
and power as the itoths are drawn to
t the flame that singes them. They
may be found sitting on the bench of
the court of law, or on the bench of
the cobbler. The freedom spirit is
I not a thing of the mind; it is the
blood.
God intended that men and races
should be free, and whoever robs
them of that right invokes for theiri
own destruction the auger of God
and man.
Cowards and slaves will falter,
those whose blood is streaked with
yellow will cringe as they have done
in every age and every lanid, but
the spirit of Irish liberty has coime
down through the centuries, lun
broken, unterrified, and no power on
earth can stop it until the republlican
1 flag, serene and secure, floats underf'
the soft blue sky of Ireland, over a
people, proud, prosperous and happy,
aud then nmillions of men and WomuenI
of Irish blood, the world ovei., joined
e by the lovers of liberty of all races,
8 will send up to heaven fronl burst
ing hearts their ringing song of joy. j
0-- -- - --O
PLAN "WHITE
TERROR" IN U. S.
(Detroit Ittabr News.)
Andrew Furusetlh, who has spient
enough years in Washington to know
what is doing down t'tere, says that
we are on the eve of a "white terror" I
here in America. He says that Ihe
first step will be tile passage of the
new proposed espionage law.
Apparently, this law is not being
widely trumpeted through the news
agencies.
The proposed bill aims to continue
the advantages (?) of the espionage
law, which comes to an end with the
signing of the peace treaty. It will
provide a most drastic sulpervision
of all opinion against "our estab
lished institutions." It will regu
late "n'ushroonl organizations" dis
cussing "governmlent, sociology, be
nevolence or whatnot!" Yes, those
are the words.
There are tilmes whenll we grow so
weary of protesting to congress that
we are tempted to decide that laws
don't matter; that "they can get you
under any law aunyway;" that/"con
gress will do as the plutocrats
please."
Yet laws dlo matter; they give a
peg on which to hang prosecution
and the employmlent of hundreds of
detectives for the purpose of invad
ing all workingmen's organizations.
Furuseth gives as his opinion that
it might be possible to prevent the
passage of the new espionage law
if agitations begin at once.
We suggest to local unions to un
dertake some "agitations" and send
a few resolutions to' congress, pro
testing against any bill whatever
which continues the regulation of
o1 pinion and expression heogun by the
espionage law.
Open Letter to Post
The Detroit Civic league has pub
lished the following open letter to
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of
labor:
June 16, 1919.
H-loi. Louis F. Post, Assistant Secre
tary of Labor, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
The deportation policy inaugurated
by your department perplexes many
who, like ourselves, have long looked
upon you as an exponent of funda
mental democracy. We confess in
ability to understand your silence
concerning the despotic acts violative
of democracy indulged in by the de
partment in which you stand so close
to the lead. We could have under
stood such a policy under the 'Mc
Kinley or Roosevelt administration.
Blut we were justified in looking for
more respect for liberty and democ
racy from an administration in which
you hold a high position and 'espe
cially from the department where
your views must wield strong influ
ence. Prior to these deportation or
ders it seemed unthinkable that you
could approve such tyranny or re
main silent while being perpetrated.
In l)etroit, for instance, we know
of at least, fifty cases. Information
given by attorneys shows tlhat the
nmost serious charge against the mien
arrested is that they have socialistic
I tendencies, land that literature of this
ntorture has been found in 'their pos
session or has been distributed by
them. The piece of literature par
ticularly condemned is the Albert
Rys William's "Questions and An
swers." In Detroit, fully a third of
the men arrested were taken in
charge at the instigation of a priest
of the Greel: church, because of a
split in the church, and because these
men objected to putting the church
property in the custody of the priest.
'T'lle priest preferred charges and the
conluissioner of inmmigration had the
men arrested and lie sent to Wash
ington for the warrants whereby thdy
f might be held for deportation. The
miui were held until the. warrants
were obtained from the department
of labor at Washington. Meantime,
they were not allowed to communi
cate with their families or evenu their
attorney until after ii secret hearing,
during which they were not informied
I of their constit.ttional rights. In
one case a mai' held ,five days in
communnicado and his wife nearly
lost her mind. :.
e We recall your just severity in
t criticizing Governor Taft's despotic
c banishment of Mabini from the
Phillilpines, your righteous indigmia
tion whll, ntlder the Roosevelt ad
ministration Secretary Cortelydu' or
dered ithe deportation of John Turner
as an alied anurchist, your denuncia
tion of officials who interfered with
SEmmna Goldman's meetings, ybour ex
coriation of the mnilitary auithorities
who punished a soldier for shaking
her hand and your opposition to all
official attempts to interfere with
expression of opinion by alien or citi
zens. We further recall that after
your appointment to your present
position you called attention in pub
lic addresses and in writings, to the
danger to democracy inlherdt in the
o deportation powers of your depart
iuent.
There is this to be said in ex
tenuatiou of the officials whose anti
democratic activities caused you to
protest. They had but scant knowl
e edge of the fundamental principles.
c They knew not what they did. Had
they realized the true charpicter of
their acts they would have' shrunk
therefrom in horror. This may be
the case with your chief, Secretary
Wilson. You must have observed
e that he showed no appreciation of
fundanental democracy in public
utterances in defense of these de
portatiois.
Having been placed in power by
a democratic administration, we
deel it your privilege and duty to
call these autocratic and outrageous
practices of the immigration officials
to the attention of Secretary Wilson.
With your power of logical analysis
s you must see how serious the situa
tion is and must realize the oppor
i tunity you' possess to call public at
ts tention through a protest to the need
of checking a tendency toward des
a potism of which these deportations
,, are but one phase. But.if this can
on not be, if you no longer hold'that we
_. should trl:ust libierty, if you tai your
stauan with those who attaci' her, if
t you repudiate 'and recant the' prin
eI ciples you once taught, let us at Teait
wi have an expression to that effect..
Respectfully submitted,
a "DETROIT' CfVIC LEAGUiE.
d A. M. MOORE, Secretary.
ri Parit.-The American Society fog
fi French Wounded has decded to build
I it llheils, alit a cost of $lttu1iOt, es
American war memorial hospital ,

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