The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-04
NEW LAW FOR ALL
 FOES OF COUNTRY
PROVISIONS OF ACT RECENTLY PASSED BY CONGRESS ARE
 DRASTIC IN NATURE.
Legislation Badly Needed Has Put Stop to Disloyal tterances and
 Provides Severe Penalty.

| persons from making remarks reflect ing on the government but the act passed recently by congress has given government officials the power they needed and is ample to punish enc 1 mics of the nation. The provisions of the act are interesting, and a peru sal of this statute will convince the most skeptical that the government has provided sufficient punishment for those who would interfere. either by act or speech. with the nation dur ing the war.
 The following will be of interest:
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That section three of title | one of the Act entitled An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality and
 the foreign commerce of the United
 States, to punish espionage, and bet
 ter to enforce the criminal laws of | the United States and for other pur- poses approved June fifteenth. nine
 teen hundred and seventeen, be. and
 the same is hereby, amended so as
 to read as follows:
 Sec. 2. Whoever. when the
 United States is at war. shall will
 fully make or convey false reports
 or false statements with intent to
 interfere with the operation or suc-
 cess of the military or naval forces
 of the United States, or to promote
 the success of it's enemies. or shall | willfully make or convey false reports
 or false statements, or say Qr do any
 thing except by way of bona fide and not disloyal advice to an investor'or ! investors with intent to obstruct the ' sale by the United States of bonds or other securities of the United States or the making of loans by or to the United States, and whoever when the United States is at war. shall willtully cause, or attempt to cause or incite or attemp to ineite insub ordination, disloyalty, mutiny or re- fusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States. or shall willtully obstruct or attempt to ob- struct the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States. and whoever when the United States is at war, shall willfully utter print write, or publish any disloyal. pro fane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the flag of the United States, or the uniform of the Army or Navy of the United States or any language intended to bring the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States. or the flag of the United States, or the uni form of the Army or Navy of the United States into contempt scorn. contumely, or disrepute, or shall will fully utter print, write, or publish any language intended Co incite. pro yoke, or encourage resistance to the
 
 cause of it's enemies, or shal, will fully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willully by utterance writing. printing publication. or lan- guage spoken, rge,incite. radvo- cate any curtailment of production in this country of any thing or things. product or products, necessary or es sential to the prosecution of the war in which the United States may be engaged, with intent by such eur. tailment to cripple or hinder the United States in the prosecution of the war, and whoever shall willfully advocate. teach defend or suggest the doing of any of the acts or things iii this section enumerated, and whea ever shall by word or act support or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act oppose the cause of the United States therein. shall be punished by a fine of not more than Sl0,000 or Imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or both Provided 1  That any employee or official of the l United States Government who con- | mits any disloyal act or utters any unpatriotic or disloyal language, or who. in an abusive and violent man | ner criticizes the Army or Navy or the flag of the United States shall be at once dismissed from the ser vice. Any such employee shall be dismissed by the head of the depart ment in which the employee may be and any such official shall be dismissed by the authority having power to appoint a successor to the dismissed official"
 Sec. That section one of Title XII and all other provisions of the Act entitled An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign re- lations. the neutrality, and the for