St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-08
ENEMIES OF ORDER.
Congress Considering Plan to Dispose
of the Anarchist Immigrants and
Bomb Throwers.
European King Murderers and soeiahstlo
Assassins Not to be Tolerated
Any Longer.
Congressman Bragg's Opinion or BOY
Soldiers and Nurses Who Apply
for Pensions.
An Effort to Remove the Mormon
Women from Their PolygamouS
surroundings.
Restricting Anarchist immigration

Restricting Anarchist aiming rasioh'
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, May THE anarchist
demonstration in Chicago has attracted
much attention in congress, but there are
few of the public men who are willing to
make any open statement concerning
it, Some of the leaders, however,
are considering whether it is not
possible to propose some legislation which
would have the effect to prevent the entry
into the United States OF the enemies OF
social order. The restrictive Chinese bill
will come up for discussion IN
the house next week, and it
will, of course, be passed. Some OF the
leaders in opposition to this measure
one of the opinion that some amendment
that are German, could be made to that
bill, which would aid in Kidding the coun-
the presence here of some harmless Chinese
laborers. A gentleman well informed in
INTERNATIONAL LAW,
who has had much experience in questions
of this sort, says.
The difficulties in framing any measure that
would be effective. and which would be GER
tain of support, are very great. Possibly re-
cent occurrences have created a public opin-
ion which would sustain the movement
against the European socialists as severe
as that which is proposed against Chinese
laborers, but if that is true, public opinion in
this country has greatly changed within few
years. 1t is not many years ago when the
suggestion was made that the king murdererS
ana anarchists of Europe should not be al
lowed free access to American soil, there
were very loud expressions of Indignation
by some of the most eloquent advocates of
personal liberty. Wendell Phillips, for in
stance, in public speech. denounced any
suggestions OF that sort as contrary to the
fundamental principles of American liberty
and violation of the sacred right Of asylum.
But the doctrine OF the
SACRED RIGHT OF ASYLUM
has received some hard blows in Chicago this
week. The difficulty in the way of framing
any legislation to prohibit the immigration
of anarchists is to discover any marks
by which the professional enemies Of social
order can be distinguished. You
cannot set up an inquisition at the custom
house. You cannot say that those who rebel
at the existing conditions in the old country
shall not find refuge here, for under snch
rule you would exclude Carl SchurZ, and
the patriotic revolutionist Of 1859. The
same law that would exclude the
PollackS would have prevented Kossuth from
landing on the other shore. Legislation of
some sort is possible and desirable. Some
time ago a resolution was introduced ON the
subject of dynamite, with regard to which
Mr. Bayaru denned MS position IN speech,
but the subject was
TOO BROAD FOR POLITICIANS.
Surely TIE man who manufactures or has
in his possession the dynamite bomb, a
weapon unknown to civilized warfare, should
not be tolerated in this republic.
As the law now stands, the repub-
lie has no protection against these
social assassins except the penitentiary or
the scatfold. The United States has not the
power to expel. The only conditions under
which a man can be removed from the coun-
try are when the United States CO.
operates under treaties with q friendly
power in eXtraditng q criminal,
and even then the criminal can only be taken
by our authorities to the border. If the for
eign powers shall there refuse to accept
him, he is at liberty to return. But the
problem should certainly commend
r itself to American craftsmanship to deter
mine whether the congress which has the
- power to array the whole force OF the govern
ment against handful of Chinese has not
also the power to protect itself from enemies
of social order