The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-07


that VERY excellent provision Of the Chicago
platform. which explicitly indorsed o Federal
measure protecting citizens from just such pro-
ceduros.
Five years. imprisonment, oonIscation OF
property and CONTEMPT of courti These are the
mild and easy means of torture, annoyance,
humiliation and destruction, by and through
which the freedom of the press IL to be at.
tackled. and newspaper men are to be taught
that they must not hereafter offend those who
control Legislatures.
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OF c'rcuH"tcs any paper "hien "hs W ooh'"i"
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NOT more tnah one year, OF py ooIn suoh no
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defendants connection with the paper. No
further evidence is required of his responsible
ty for the publication. He is presumed to be
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the burden is thereby cast upon the defendant
TO show that such use was unauthorized. The
prosecution neod not even show that such use
was with the defendants knowledge. This is a
reversal of the ordinary rules of evidence per.
tanning to criminal prosecutions, and in my
opinion this PROVISION is unconstitutional be-
cause it violates the constitutional provision
that mo person shall be derived of life. lib
erty, or property without due process of law"
(Wynehamer VS.. People, 3 Kern, 446.) The
case of People va. Cannon. 13g n. Y. r.. 80.
d ocs not conflict with the principle for which I
contend, The fact upon which the presump.
tion of guilt ia tn rest has no fair relation to mr.
natural connection with the main fact. In other
words, the mere fact that a newspaper adyer-
tises that I am ono of its owners or editors
does not of itself alone have any natural con.
nection with the truth of the fact of such owner.
shin or editorship. II ia mere hearsay. tits
the uncorroborated az parte declaration Of
others. Tho inference of the connection ia
purely arbitrary, unreasonable, unnatural,
md extraordinary" and hence A conyiction
based thereon is without due process OF law"
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BESIDES the proposed 10" permits no de-
renee 10 inc Indictment based upon the truth
OF the offensive pnolcations. What' men,
becomes OF section > OF Article l. OF the consti-
tuition "hi"h expressly declares that no law
shall DO passed TO restrain or aoridge the lib
erty OF speIch or OF tho press, and that in all
criminal prosecutions Tor libel the truth may be
given In evidence to the jury as a defence.
Although Inc orence Tor which punishment is
provided IN this law Is not characterized as a
libel but Is simply styled a 'misdemeanor,'
without any other name yetlt must be re-
garhed as a loei "lthin the true meaning OF the
constitutional provisions above mentioned. An
attack upon a corrupt or dishonest official or
dissoiute man ls-lf falsc-a libel, and Its M
ture may be such as to be open to the charge OF
having, a. tendency 10 inJure the minds OF the
public, and an Indictment might DO found for