The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-09-07
DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
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There is a famous decision of the Supreme Court portion of which reads as follows:-
 "The constitution of the United States is law for rulers and for people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of it's protection all classes of men, at all times. and under all circumstances, No doctrine, involving more perni- cious consequences, was ever in vented by the wit of man than that any of it's provisions can be sus- pended during any of the great eX- igencics of government. Such doctrine leads directly to anarchism and despotism C4 Wall ?, 142. De cision Of the Supreme Court of the United States in the great case Ex Parte Miligan.)
 The constitution of the United States expressly provides that Con gress shall make no law abridgins the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of peaceful as sembly.
 That is very distinct. Those are rights inalienable and with the people vested for ever and undcr all circumstances. So it is that we do not understand the procedure that has taken place when the au- thcrities in the pest office suspend- ed the mailing privileges and there~ by in many cases destroyed the cil- cnlation also Of SO many radical papers.
 Furthermore the constitution O. the United States declares that the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated" and we are all the more astonished at the action of the au- thorities in raiding all the l. w. w.. headquarters and seizing all the papers. check books, documents and correspondence therein.
 Due process of law is provided for man or associations of men who violate the statutes and until the Industrial Workers of the World is proven to be q criminal organiza- tion and as such ortlawed from the nrotection of the constitutional rights of citizenship, # is hard to behold any equity .u t-e proceed ings as. reported.
 For these 1ndustrialists who are arrested without warrant, held without trial and incommunicado are guilty ot crime, the law ex- pressly provides means of meeting the infractions of the law. More over there is nothing to show that the means of constitutional ac- ton in the matter have been de- fective.
 There has we know, been a strong and persistent attack upon the organization that amounted to a propaganda, and for that reason it was all the more necessary that the regular means of procedure and certainly the means of proce- dure within the constitution, be pursued.
 Dispatches state that the orga- nization is supposed to be in re- ceipt of money from Germany Frankly we could imagine nothing more heinous even from the point of view of the labor movement. To conceive that any persons would bargain the agitative propaganda for the sake of promoting the ends of an enemy country would be be- yord words contemptible. Bu, merely to say so, or merely to sus pect so is not to prove that this is so, and when asserted as it has been asserted that it is so, without any proof to the effect asserted. is as contemptihle in those making the assertion as it would be il those taking that Judas money.
 No organization within the Am erican Federation of Labor. as oul organization is, can look at these procedures without ,astonishment and without concern. It can SC happen that the raids made upor the L w. w. may be but the be