The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-11-16
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lliO CNOly PoloOh VIM 10 o"0PNS'O1
OF being an anarchist. This is
David b. Hill !! Every alien seek
ing admission into the United States
is to be examined if he is suspected
of being an anarchist. Examined
as to what AS to whether he ever
blew up a house, or killed an en-
peror, or murdered brutal and
oppressive governor, whom human
laws could not reach No, nothing
of that kind. He is to be examined
by pertinent questions as to his
antecedents, and as to his opinions
as to government
"Is there any difference between
examining man as to his opinions
as to government, and you do not
like him sending him back again,
and asking his opinion as to God,
and after that sending him back {?
He is to be examined as to whether
he belongs to any society or assOcia-
ton of known anarchistic tenend-
cies, and this board may examine,
the person of such alien for marks
indicative of such membership.
What does that mean To examine
him from the crown of his head to
the sOles of his feet for marks in
dicative of such tendency What
marks ? Would a man looked for
by all the police of the monarchies
of Europe mark himself so that he
could be known by them? No; but
in some of those countries political
prisoners are marked. This prec-
ious bill took that way of finding
out whether any man coming to
this country in search of liberty
had been under the ban of the
despotic police of Europe.
"And more. This board may
accept evidence of an emigrant's
common reputation as an anarchist,
and the judgments of foreign courts
and police investigations may be
taken as prima facie evidence,
which may be deemed sufficient,
unless controverted.
"And this bill goes to provide
that, in case they think there is
evidence of his holding such opin-
ions, he is to be sent back from this
country, and from there the bill
goes on to appropriate 100000 of
money wrung from labor by the
most atrocious taxation. For what
To send agents who are virtually to
be police spies to Europe; there to
go into connection with the police
of European countries, and to find
out and report here whom they
suspect to be anarchists.
"Why, under that bill such
man as Prince Krapotkine, a man
who enjoys the hospitality of Eng
land to-day; man who as an in
veStigator has rendered the greatest
service; such a man as Prof. Reclus,
who enjoys the freedom of free
Switzerland; man who stands to-
day as the most eminent of living
geographers; under that bill if such
men came to this country they
could be taken up, examined as to
their opinions of government and
then sent back to Europe. The
man who introduced that bill was
David B. Hill. A man posing as
a democrat; posing to-day as a
friend of labor; posing to-day as a
defender of free speech. There
never was such an atrOcious bill
introduced into the Congress of the
United States.
"And in that Senate which has
become an American house of mil
lionaires, that Senate which was
only anxious to serve the sugar
trust, for good and sufficient rea-
sons; in that Senate this bill passed
without opposition, and it might
have been to-day the law of the
land, just as that atrocious Russian
treaty that binds us to send back
political offenders to Russia is the
law of the land, but thank God,
there was one real democrat, a
single tax democrat-John Dewitt
Warner-who stood up and pro-
tested, and killed that bill there
and then. No man ever introduced
such a bill as that into the Senate
of the United States, whatever else
he may have done; no man who