Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-24
BY JAMES B. MORROW.

7ANY thousands of aliens have
I'M MI been arrested. More arrests
UWll are being made daily. They
q VIZ are not reported. however, in
the newspapers. A man disappears,
likely as not in the night. and no one
knows where he has gone, except the
members of his family or his business
associates. Nor are they keen about
making the particulars public
Occasionally an absent man returns
to his throne. The mysterious power
that took him away sets him free
then watches him. If he disappears
again, he will be seen no more until
the war is over.
The rule, however. Is against q re-
lease in the first place An arrest,
usually, means Imprisonment indef-
nitely. Guilt is established by unseen
and unerring processes Punishment
follows. And no court in the land can
prevent it. A million lawyers. hired by
the defense were that possible, could
not communicate with the prisoner,
either by letter or in person. They
could neither speechify nor split hairs
in his behalf
The supreme justices of the United
States cannot take a spy or a traitor
out .of the Jurisdiction of the President
He, the spy or traitor. has no day in
court and no rights that are recognized
Three sorts of aliens have been. and
are being, taken into custody. After
the Huns, in the frenzy of greed. set
out for Paris, dragging stheir artillery
after them, German warships found
their way into American waters The
sailors on these ships, officers and men,
afraid of capture at sea by the British
or French, remained temporarily under
the protection of the United States and
were informed ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is.
were prevented from taking part in the
fighting.
Last April. America having shoul-
dered the gun of battle, these men be-
came prisoners of war. They are now
confined for most part. at Fort Ogle-
thorpe. in Georgia At the same time
all of the sailors on German merchant
ships, held at American ports since Au-
gust 1914. were informed and deprived
of their liberty.
that the contest with France would
end quickly. Their wooden-headed
diplomacy. thoroughly Teutonic in all
particulars. could not foresee the en-
hict. Ships under the German nag.
scattered all over the world. would
come ard go freely. And many OF them
are doing SO at present, but they are
bearing American soldiers and their
food, guns and ammunition to the
trenches in France and Flanders.
Tho thousands of sailors on German
trading vessels, caught and held in
American waters by the war. lived on
their ships and many of them were
Joined by their wives and families.
These men constitute the second class
of aliens under arrest and in prison.
They were sent to Hot Springs. n. c.,
There they are gathered from far snd
near, from Manila. Honolulu. San Juan
and the Gulf of Mexico. from the in
sular and the continental harbors of
America.
Up to this time they have had nothing
to do, but measures are being taken to
give them employment And they want
1t. which can be said to tLeir credit
Some of them, probably. ill remain
in this country. as Hessians remained
after the revolution.
The third class of aliens under re-
straint, and their number also runs
into the thousands, are the worst in the
lot Sailors, lighting men o. trading
men trapped In American ports by tho
octs Of their rulefs. are personally un-
Objectionable so long as they obey the