The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-08
THE JOHN TURNER EASE.

To The Salt Lake Herald:
In section IS of the immigration law (as /
amended March g. 1903) We read:
THAT no person VINO disbelieves IN OF 1
who is opposed to organized govern fneIt- !
or who is a member of or AFFILIATED with t
any organization entertaining or teaching /
such disbelief in opposition 70 all organ
lied government shall be permit
ted to enter the United States"
What does this mean? If It really pre-
vents the assassin making his home on I
our shores, well and good; but viii u
bring about this end? ] think not II We
NAV Judge by the experience that re-
preston, the lettering of a free speech
and a free press, has given to the MS
tory of nations. Russia. whose pohcy
has ever been to strange freeootn'
swarms with nihilists, with men always
looking for an opportunity TO assassinate
the official, or officials. whom they ad-
Judge guilty of bringing ruin into their
lives. The army OF bloody anarchy IS
recruited. fattens, in the country where
oppression. sitting and exacting. reaTs
its head. England. Tor many years mas
sheltered the foreign political exile, or
10 Fedden their hands with the blood OF
the officials of that country's govern
rnent. ASS ssinatiOn has not there found
q victim, she has enjoyed peace IN thar
regard The unrest lies il Ireland, where
she has played the tyrant. Spain IS an
Czolgosz was Booth. Cuiteau. one of
those misfoTtuneS-eTiiS / must say. 70
be more definite. that poster the earth.
ana strike down the good and had alike
on account Of some petty pTe1uGicC, OF
base motive that their warped mental-
ity gives being TO- They are accidents.
and heaven Itself could not rid Itself OF
the consequences that their presence gen
crates. How can we wipe them 0ut2 VIII
good nature viii the iron hand of des-
potisrn relieve the earth Of the outcome
CT the pTomptings Of their narrow inlp--ts
No. We have no remedy with WnlGh 20
cure their maladE. uniess the flgnuul
handling of one of natures laws can
make them healthy citizens, Ihey be-
long to all manner OF political society
no one particular class harbcrs them
They are sores that VIII not heal
If we attempt to keep an anarchist OFT
az the country we are liable to breed
hundred at home, fer the methods we
must use to attain such an end must
necessarily be arbitrary. The strangilns
of free speech, the goddess who alone
prevents the winding Of the nets OF me
tyrant about the welfare OF q people
always fills the country which adopts
such methods OF gaming an end Win
nihilists ana the blood letting species Of
Turner is excluded for what2 Is his
offense defined? is he a criminal pc
cause he thinks. believes, as his mind dic
tates? Criminal laws can only strike al
acts Where will repression. ond. an
the ideas Of right and wrong thar gov
eminent wishes to iua1gUrate beSinE Can
we weld the letters OF submission e0oOt
q mental state? DepOrt an anarchist anG
by so doing can you prevent ms CoclIihes
from stealing within the confines Of the
country? Can thought be eEiieaE Try
10 put the bail and chain on pellet. on
thouEht. and we attempt the impossiole.
Senator Hoar, in d letter TO y. {. P-ey-
Il should not approve any law or any
construction OF any law that excluded
persons from the country merely because
they disbelieved in all organized govern
ment unless they also favored forci0ie
resistance to all organized government
! That should be clearly established ana
should not be taken as established 5y
tanybody's deduction. as q matter % logic
from what the person who IS unGer con
sheraton avows as his belief. one o.
the greatest single causes OF IelisIols
B persecution and intolerance IS tns .iAl-
putting TO other men opinions WLlcA I1S-
/ themselves disaVoW. but which their Op-
I ponents charge them with bec3 use they
seem 10 the opponents the logical deduc-
I ton from what they say they tnink. |
am not bound TO accept or submit 10 Whdt
/ another man thinks the logical conse-
qUence of what I say or 60,
( 1t has been reserved Tor the bnIteo
/ States the hope of the world, to treat as
/ a condemned criminal man VINO IN g
European country has never concealed
4 his opinions, and has never been mo-
! Tested for expressing them. th'tItSs
/ Bradlaugh one time SAID;
1 Better a thousand fold abuse OF Tree
/ sneech than denial Of free speech, the
/ abuse dies in day, but me eIi.ai SO
/ the life Of the people and entomos the
hone Of the race
Here is what Hon. John Hay saiG, OF
wrote. some thirty wears ago;
/ s.Tor always in thine eyes. O Liberty.
I Shines that high light whereby the worio
Is saved,
And though thou slay US We VIII trust
In thee
Tt Is to be hoped that the following
/ conclusions arrived at by the New YORK
( Daily News are not true
/ Americans have forgotten what tyr
! amy is and they do not realize that ans
/ rights are being taken from them. TheS
| are too-busy Just now TO take thought ol
/ such q trifle AS freedom Of speecli. con
1 scious. perhaps OF being able 10 recovel
/ anvthfng Of which they may pc robbed
I whenever they find IL convenient or nee
1 essarv to 40 so; but il is well that ths
! lower east side does not forget 50 read
! Nv JOSEPH ROGERS.
| Park City.