The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-09-23

people Of the whole world to conn over and
occupy our lands and made no distinction
between rich and poor; veil or III, white or
black. good or bad.
Yet, first discovering that Nc are getting
slightly crowded, we are now finding out
that some OF the crowd had better not have
been invited to our board.
Once. Subject Of Diplsnacy.
ut is to be noted that the nrst references
question Of exclusion was in the iuvestiga-
ton OF q complaint Of American citizens
excluded from Russia and in 4 commune.
cat1on TO the American Minister at st. Pc.
tersburg. Mr.. Everett, then our Secretary
OF State, said: This Government could
never give up the right Of excluding foreign
erS whose presence they might deem a
source Of danger to the United States. NOR
Will this Government consider such exclu.
sion OF American citizens necessarily q mat.
ter OF diplomatic complaint to that coun.
Try. This was In 1859. In 1895 Mr.. Marcy.
Secretary of State. reiterated this view:
Every society he said. possesses the uu.
oouoted right to determine who shall COM
pose Its members. and It Is exercised bv al,
nations, both in peace and war. Later. when
noth Germany and Russia were prohibiting
Inc return OF their subjects who had leff
their native lands and become natur.IiIrd
IN the United States. neither Mr.. Case nor
aif. seward. though appealed to to inter-
Ie.e' could md any grounds on which to
act. me control OF the people within its
nmits ana the right to expel from its ter
peace of the state are too dearly vithsr shs
essential attributes Of sovereignty To be AZ.
riously contested. oe =
~ was the emigration from Europe NJ
1ormons which first called forth a Federal
~ p.aelns q restriction on the landing Of
.orelsners on our shores; and at the present
time Congress has excluded from entsrine
the United States an idiots nanners rs
sons suffering from a Ioathsome disease or
cohtaglous disease, persons who have beep
convicted OF a felony or other infamoua
crime or misdemeanor. polygamists ner-
SONS. assisted by others to immigrate, and
persons at the time under a contract to per-
form labor or service of any kind within
the United States. A most signal irrtanaa
Oh .tne exercise OF this power by our Gov
eminent Is the exclusion. by the acts Of 1sSa
ana lss2, OF practically a whole race-the
Chinese.
Chinese Excluslo. Act.
"In the Chinese exclusion case dac,d.a -
the Supreme Court in 1892 all the Jud1s.
agreed that our Government had a risht
10 say who should and who should NOT
enter the country, but three Of the Jud9es
Judges Brewer. Fuller n ~Ffeld-denied
tho po"eF ~ ueport inc allen resident IL
must be remembered, however. that the
Chinaman Is excluded and deported because
do not like him and not because no is
a criminal or seeking to overthrow our
Government; and 1t Is upon this around
that the three Judges dissented. Hovever
the majority of the court made DISTINCTION
between exclusion and b~anishment and
their judgment Is the law Of the land.
There Is. therefore, no legal or cons.f-
tutional difficulty In the way of q Federal
by which alien anarchists shall be pre-
from entering this country, or, fe
here. expelled from our territory as fast
as they are caught. The case Of the native
born or naturaiized anarchist would doubt
have to be handled through the crimf-
nal courts-undeT statutes making the In.
citing to the murder Of our ~ofHcials. or
the overthrow Of our institutions by force.
. high crime.
ut Is safe to say that II the assassin
we're to be tried within the next few DAYS
the whole people, as Arfstdes was, or
by a popular assembly. az Charles I and
Louis XVI were. he would be promptly
given over to all those cruel and unusual
punishments' which our modern criminal
codes prohibit, In our cry for vengeance
mai forget that excessively cruel pun
have never accomplished their
and that the anarchists In hiding
n the cellars and sewers Of ST. Petersburg
Ind Vienna and Berlin are. perhaps, moro
be feared than when allowed thets IN
.rty to write and teach, n Grost 1xj4e
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