The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-07-17
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The following from the esteemed
Atlanta Constitution is an able anc
fearless expose Of the reprehensibls
Espionage system recently established
in ;he United States department Of
justice. II is worth the reading ana
brings the matter straight home in a
Nonderiinly striking manner
The senate Of the United States
has acted none too quickly in demand
ing b. what seems TO be a unani
NOUS vote an immediate Investigation
Of the allesed governmental SOY sys
tenn, which has assumed such proper
Tons during the past few years as to
threaten one OF the mainstays Of "a
free government.
This cancerous system has grown
50 rapidly in decade that not sat.
iafed with combining its fnsidious en-
chroacbment to the governmental de-
partments, it has actually reached out
TO the judges OF the country, and,
worse than that. its grasDing tenta-
cIes have actually laid hold Of federal
grand jurors.
II this system is permitted to live
and grow at the rate at which it has
developed during the past decade an
other ten years will put the country
at the mercy Of the horde Of
who are being supported by
payers of this country at the
Of liberty and the freedom u
pie
This is the trS the history
Of the countrg itber house Of
congress ma necessary to in
quire If am Hive was exerting
ciary faction Of the senate IS,
Hereford. epochal, and The cause Of
it an innovation upon American ideas
which has amazed the country from
one end to the other The great body
Ct Western lawyers and judges before
whom Judge Emory speers address
was made referred it to committe.
The next day. after careful considera.
lion, the committe reported, and res
1lution was unanimously adopted pro
.osting IN the strongest way against
his espionage of the members of that
branch Of the public service whose in
dependence is absolutely essential to
ne perpetuity Of liberty.
70 perceive now aDhorent is this
Russian system to the principles of
rec government we have but to com
pare it to the privileges Of the ao-
oused as secured in the iilth and six.h
amendments to the constitution The
individual is entitled to be plainly in
formed as to the nature OF the charge
against him. Here is no information.
lie may in truth be in absolute tx
norance that the spies are at work.
lie is entitled to make his defense.
How can he when he does not know
the charge? He has thepriyilege OF
being confronted with the witnesses
against him. The disgruntled attor
noys, the reyengeful suitors, the enc.
mics Of high and low degree which
every Judge is liable to make, act in
the dark Their affidayits and state.
mend are given secretly, and yet
they are made matters OF record.
They so to destroy character. They
are placed q le IN great depart
ment of thI rnment No antidote
goes VIZ GA for the victim is
wholly hS 4he accused is en-
behalf ,Shnt how when he does
not know the charS
There is no faiiurs the part OF
the eA miner to let tha ews 50 ont
70 the world that the inSA is und +
and the iudiSNl honor,
like the purity of woma which
feels a stain like a wound is Airch-
ed and blaekened with no chaSS Of
redress, u
This suggests only partially IN
WRONGS to the accused, but the gravef
wrong is to the administration OF JUS
tioe ond to those persons and corpora
tons who are often accused Of crime
spon bare suspicion or baseless ru-
NOR Ii the fiber OF a judges nature
is not OF sterner stuff than that of the