Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-03
THAT ALIEN ENEMY BILL.

Arizona legislature to be called this sum- mer by the governor, of law for the prose cution and detention of alien enemies. Few if any objections to such law can be dis covered. The Review has already called attention to the possibilities of assisting the government in stamping out espionage; to the added safety which the state would enjoy.
 To make the law successful, however, the governor would necessarily have to in clude in his call not only the anti-alien enemy bill, but provision to do away with the pernicious anti-blacklist statute now incorporated in the Arizona codes With out the exclusion of this law, no statute for the inquisition of pro-Germans, for an investigation of pacifists, agitators and propagandists, could be a success.
 Efforts have been made on several oc- casions to bring to test in the courts the anti-blacklist law. Those who secured the passage of the measure, knowing its weak ness, have evaded these efforts As re- suit the law stands block to the states investigation of records of any of its in- habitants Individuals, W h otherwise might be of inestimable value in discover ing the true minds of alien enemies, and employers who could assist in the same manner, are deterred
 The safety of the state depends largely on the extermination of the agitator, the prcpagsndist the l. w w., disgruntled pacifist and pro-German. Production in the state is hampered if not threatened by the presence of these parasites. The indus tries of the state are constantly in danger of their injurious work. The very founda- ton of society may be shaken by their per fidious activities.
 Some direct effective means for dealing with them should be devised. The govern ment may intern men for disloyal remarks. Women, unless they can be convicted of espionage, the government may not hinder. The government has greater tasks in other districts for its secret service than Tn Ari- zona. The government must direct the eye of its searching inquisitors over the entire nation. Federal officers are slow in action as compared to state officials. The red tape of their machinery and their intricate system prevents the direct action which state law would provide.
  tention of the governor one means of do- ing away with the Hun in this land. The passage of measure providing for the in ternment of all anti-Americans would ac- complish this end. The abolition of the anti-blacklist law would make effective the alien enemy statute.
 State officials are anxious to do their share to stamp out the Hun and his dis guised clique of agitators, pacifists and l. W. w. In a statement to the public the under-sheriff of this county Monday de- clared he had concluded an investigation of one pro-German case. He added that where federal action could not be secured sufficiently speedily in such cases, he him self would urge United States officials to act if he were notified. He would go so far, he said, as to assist in securing evidence on which the government could proceed. Well known citizens approved his state ments, and offered their best services to assist him.
 3 The anti-Americans of Arizona would be in the hands just such efficient public serv- ants as this under-sheriff and these well known citizens, if the governor should make possible the passage of this new law. Now Is the time to act. Now Is the time to rid Arizona and America of reptiles of the copper head and tory species of old war days And now is the most propitious time for the enactment of statute which will permit action and provide relief After. thissspecial session of the Arizona legisla- ture long period will elapse before an- other body assemblies. The governor should save time, hasten the calling of his special session. and by all means provide in the first measure passed by the legislature for protection of this state, of production, of industry, of business, of society, of re-