Iditarod pioneer., 1916-01-29
A REPETITION?

request made his last by the President that in te shape of stringent laws congress place Tn ms hanS m strumens by which he might readily protect the country from the perncous activities of those of our citizens and o strangers gates who by of their sympathy with side the present offend against the peace and d ny of the United States recalls the somewhat similar disturb caused by ensrants and essaes from the country which for not the first time in her heckered career o the past hundred years making today strenuous calls upon our gra tude for past favors
 The year 7s9 both the inauguration of our present form of government and the beginning of the French revolution Two wears later came the and the of Europe which last practically without inermon until the scum the earth beat back the Old Guard Waterloo and curing whch the young republic in the West to go to war with and then with the other Of the two ce conener
 For short time after the eruption France there existed the best of feeling between the young governments La fayee Washington the key of the Base and on tns so h was m lack of exressjons of good will toward those who were advancing the of liberty the continent But the French revoutonsts wanted needed than passive Spe of good will and they not bac ward in sending and asking for active Washington however, saw the dan ger and stood firmly for aooness from entangEng alliances Though short time the French agent persisted in puocy opposing the President the latter policy prevailed and I9 Washington demanded Gnets recall The trouble dd not enc there.
 In the latter part of Wahingons administration the Federal
 s FeeaS began fight for the control of the gov Feerast Adams followed Washington and his admn
 raion and his party in general were annoyed and hamPeFe4 quite their fought the c the stump the press The climax in 179S when wh the Feera the majority in both houses congress passed he alien and seon laws To them be traced the birth o the American KnowNothng party and from their misuse or abuse in political quabbes resulted the impeachment trial and acQu of associate justice of the of the United States of fact and quite contrary the probable expectation of their franer the laws reacted paly upon the country internal affairs.
 The alien laws three in number and they respectively Ingthcned the period of residence requisite for citizenship &n
 made but stringent changes the naturaza gave the President for to order out ct he country all aliens considered dangerous be gagged conspaces empowered the President apprehen all alien the declaration ot upon invasion predatory lncrslon peetraed attempted or threat
 ed against territory the United States This last act has been repealed
 The secon law prohibited and penazed the publishing or President disrepute excite popular hostility to then to nce resistance to the United laws encourage hostile designs against the
 United States. Political lockeyng drew the that It would expire March 1S01 which day eventually marked the accession of the AntiFederaists power
 These laws bitterly opposed The arguments against them er voiced Kentucky and Virginia resolutions drafted by eeon and Madison the legislature of the Blue Grass 1799 far declare by formal resolution that nu
 caion the proper method of avoiding them. They the AniFeerasts directly to conceptions misconceptions of what the of and what had been secured the federal It claimed that these destroyed rights and liberties expressly guaranteed by that nrumtra by jury freedom of speech and of the ireSS and the powers of the those who lived within their borders The point however whether the laws just unjust whether the occasion warranted passing such drastic measures but rather whether the federal had usurped powers the of which saeguared by the constitution the individual gnaory egn rights the kernel of the quarrel But Uter other and his the President
 implied revival of these laws those who fight him the issue will have find for their opposl tlon The oi one vas buried for keeps at Appomattox.