Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-26
POOR RESULTS, INDEED

getting a hundred cents worth
for every dollar expended. Recent
ly in debating before Congress the
appropriation sought by Attorney
General Palmer for the running
down Of anarchists guilty of bomb
outrages of the past month or two,
he called attention of Congress to
the fact that while millions of dol
lars have been expended by Mr.
Palmer's predecessor in Office for
the suppression of 1. W. W. and
similar activities, few convictions
have been obtained. Congressman
kreider is earnest in his support of
legislation looking to the conviction
OF the bomb plotters, but he wants
some assurance that the money ex-
pended will bring results. Said he
IN his address to the House:
But 1 want to direct your at
tention to this fact: That We are
reaping the crop the seed of which
we have sown. 1 want to direct
your attention to the fact that
certain organizations. one of them
known as the l. w. w, and other
anaI chistic societies, during the
progress of the Great War, now
ended, not only threatened to de-
stroy, but actually attempted to
destroy the food products of this
country, and the food that was
needed to feed our boys when
they were in the trenches abroad,
the boys who. through our legis-
lation, were drafted from their
homes. Those same people threat
ened and attempted to destroy our
mines, the product of which was
used in the manufacture of the
things absolutely needed for the
prosecution of the war. They at
tempted also to destroy the lum-
Der that was needed for the build
ing OF ships and the manufacture
of airplanes. And they did all that
at time when we were in war
and at a time when none of us
knew exactly what the outcome
would be.
Yet. I have not heard that any
OF these people were convicted as
traitors to this country. which
their acts proved them to be. Is
IT possible that the millions of
dollars that we have given to the
Attorney Generals Department for
the prosecution of crime have
been expended without results
and that the Department of Jus
uce has winked at these things
and allowed them to go on. there
by encouraging this anarchism?
And is 1t possible that only when
an attempt is made upon their
own lives do they rise up now and
say that this evil thing has got
to be stamped out, although when
the activities of these criminals
were directed against the bows in
and intended to be a factor.
against our winning the war
these crimes against the country
were winked at?
I do not make the charge that
there was a1v winlSing at them:
but In nv fud~-"o7t. nvnrv one ~
hose men were traitors and
should have heen lined up before
a firing SQUAD next morning and
disposed Of summarily. But have
heard Of no such action being
taken
All OF which is true. We have
been an too lenient with the vipers
who would poison to death our
whole democratic form of govern
ment. We have tried the WAYS of
reason with them. We have track
ed them to their lairs and left them
of with admonitions to be good. in
stead of melting out to them the Wig
orous treatment they should have
had Freedom is one thing. license
h another; but the policy of the
Department of Justice has been to
confuse the two. We have been 50
Jealous of our individual liberties
that we have tolerated excesses
that no other government on earth
for a moment would have permit
ted. Now we have come down to
the place where the radical must
abide by the law of the land or get
out of it, either by way of the firing
squad or the departing steamship.
viii reach thous-
ands of the tools of these mistaken
or criminal leaders, but they them
selves are beyond education. They
must comply with the law, get out
or be put away by force. Attorney
General Palmer has a big opportun-
ity to demonstrate that the long arm
of the law is capable of reaching
into even the most carefully hidden
plotter's den. He has the money and
the men and apparently the deter
ination. The country will watch de-
velopments with keen interest.
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