The sun., 1908-03-24
ANARCHISTS STIR PRESIDENT
IT WAS HE VINO ACTED AGAINST
PATERSON NEWSPAPER,
Personally Ordering That Itble Kept Out
Of the Malls-Asks Department Of jus
tlce 10 Punish the Editors whose Crime
Is More Infamous Than Murder"

OF the Mails-Asks Department Of JUS
tlce 10 Punish the Editors whose Crime
IL More Infamous Than Murder"
PATERSON, N, j.. March 2S.-Mayor
Andrew Mcbride received to-day a letter
from Secretary Loeb showing that the
President was directly responsible for the
temporary order issued by Postmaster
General Meyer excluding the anarchist
weekly paper La QUESTION: SocioIe from the
mails.
The letter was in reply to one sent by the
Mayor appealing for the Presidents power
ful aid in the effort being made to rid
Paterson Of anarchists. With II Mr. Loeb
enclosed, at the Presidents direction, a
copy Of the letter the President had written
to the Department Of Justice concerning
the publication in question, This COM
munication, in which the President told
what he thought Of anarchy and anarchists,
was as follows
10 the DcDdrimcHt OF JusGcg:
BY my direction the Postmast er- General
Is to exclude La QussiioDe SOciUlc Of Pater-
son. y. j.. from the mails, and Il will not be
admitted to the mails unless by order OF
the Court or unless you advise me that II
must be admitted Please see II 1t Is not pos
sible to prosecute Criminally under any sec
tion Of the law that is available the men that
are interested in the sending out Of this anar-
chistiC and murderous publication. They
are. OF course. the enemies Of mankind and
every effort should be made to hold them
accountable for an offence far more Infamous
than that Of any ordinary murder.
This matter has been brought to my atten-
ton by the Mayor Of the city Of Paterson, !
wish every effort made to GET al the criminals
under the Federal law. II may be found i'm
possible TO do this, | shall also, through the
Secretary Of state call the attention OF the
Governor Of New Jersey to the circumstances,
80 that he may proceed under the State law,
his attention being further drawn to the fact
that the newspaper is circulated In other
States After YOU have concluded your in
vostigation wish report from you to serve
as basis for recommendations by me for
action by Congress
Under section 1891 OF the revised statutes.
lcwd, obscene and hscyious books and let
tprs, publications for indecent and immoral
uses. or OF an indecent and immoral nature,
aud postal cards on which indecent and sour
rlous epithets are written or printed, are
all excluded from the mails and provision
is made for the lne aud Imprisonment Of
those guilty
The newspaper article IN question advocates
murder by dynamite. Il specifically adj
vocates the murder OF enlisted men of the
United States Army and officers OF the police
force aud the burning Of the houses Of private
citizens. The preaching Of murder and arson
is certainly as immoral as the circulation Of
obscene and asciyous literature. and II the
practice Is not already forbidden by the law it
should he forbidden.
The immigration law now prohibits the
entry into the United States OF any person
who entcrtains or advocates the views eN-
pressed in this newspaper article. II II Of
course ineNcuSlble 10 permit those already
here TO promulglte such views.
Those who write, publish and circulate
such articles stand on the level with those
who use the mails for distributing pOisOns
for the purpose OF murder and convictions
have been obtained when the mails have been
used for the distribution Of poisOns. No law
should require the Postmaster-General to
become an accessory to murder by circulating
literature Of this kind,
1HEoDorE RoOSEvFLT
In his letter TO the President Mayor
Mcbride wrote Of the many articles that had
been published in La QueSiione SOcidie de-
nouncing the law and melting 10 violence
and riot, and appealed to the Post Office
Department to exclude the publication from
the mails, but without result. He added;
The reputation of our city has suffered
in consequence. Her fame has become in
fan,oUG aE! hC- good namo byword and
reproach. Anarchy has a name-she needs
must have a habitaton. Our cit" IL called
the headquarters aud centre OF the group,
the breeding ground aud plague spot OF
anarchstic contagiou. Paterson as a city OF
this great American commonwealth appeals 10
your powerful aid. appeal to YOU as Mayor
OF a law abiding community, proud of their
kinship with The American people. for your
fOrcpful influence. Almost tl4 entire circu-
lation Of the paper is through the mails and
to deny its servce 10 the pubiNers would be
the most effective means Of suppressinR II.
Relieve us b. excluding from the United
states mails this publication and you will
earn the deepest gratitude from thankful
people.
Post Office inspectors finished their exam
nation Of the files and records Of the publ
cation this afternoon and sent a report to
the PostInaster-General. This report will
be used in the hearing to he granted the pub
fishers Of Lo QuCstioRc SociGle at tho Post
Onico Department in Washington on
Wednesday next, when the temporary order
will be- either dismissed or made permanent.
Mayor Mcbride and City Counsel Edward F.
Murrey will attend the hearing.
Ludovico Camanta. the editor OF La
QucaiiUds Socia!o, who is said 10 he the
moving spirit among the anarchists Of the
United States, las issued statement in
which he says that free speech and free
press laws entitle his paper TO the use OF
the mails. He says thai. his paper has been
made the victim Of slanderous papers Of
Paterson,
we will continue TO publish our paper
and to use our right Of free press and free
speech he said.