The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-06-09
As TO ALIENS.

Several hundred enemy aliens have been re-
leased from custody, who did not commit danger
GUS crimes against the United States, but were
arrested for expressing sympathy with Germany
or denouncing the United States. There remain
about nine hundred dangerous enemy aliens
whom the department of justice intends to keep
n the army internment camps until the treaty OF
peace is ratified until congress passes the leg
isIation for their deportation.
That this legislation should be passed, and as
speedily as possible, goes without saying. Even
after the German autocracy signs the peace
treaty if it is signed, the world has learned at
tremendous cost the light regard in which Ger
many holds a scrap Of paper, and the fact that
war is formally ended between the German gov
eminent and the allies, does not by any means
preclude trouble in this country through enemy
aliens.
If the German government can disrupt the
government of this country by fair means or foul,
it is safe to predict that signed document will
prevent The League of Nations may prevent
war But the signing of the peace treaty will
not prevent the activities of the Bolsheviki and
the I. w. W., with which many enemy aliens
aligned themselves before and during the war.
1t is not safe to trust any man who has been
false to this country, whoever or whatever he
may be- There were many in Pensacola who
scoffed at the idea that either Lutz or Kulen-
kampf were identified with Germany or its
agents in any way that would work harm to this
government. And they went their way unmo-
Tested for many months. Yet it was proven that
Kulenkampf was identified with relative, Gus
tave Kulenkampf, New York financier, who
was close to the emperor himself, and that Lutz
was not only spy, but most dangerous one.
Tbo foo hot IF no rn1o sod
prison were not dangerous enemy aliens before
the war, does not argue that they will not be
dangerous after the war.
The German emperor has boosted that he
would set up his government in this country. The
American army has called his bluff Now let
the American people see that he does not, through
his agents here, make good his threat, even
though dethroned, by using his tools to create
discord in the United States.
It is significant fact that, wherever trouble
is, wherever labor is rebelling from authority of
the accredited labor leaders, it is found to num-
Der many foreigners, many of them with Ger
man names, in its ranks. The people of the
United States will never turn this country over
to the foreign-born The immigration laws have
been far too lax in the past. And the fact that
the offscouring of the earth have been permitted
to seek havesl from authority here, will work
time to come.
to the detrimenl of good government for some
But the men who made the name of Chateau
Thierry ring around the world, the men who went
through hell at the forest of Argonne, and the
men whose comrades died of pestilence at Brest
did not make these sacrifices for democracy to
turn this country over to Germany or any other
nation, and if congress does not do its part in
passing legislation to deport the enemies of this
government, they may depend that Sammie viii
but it will give him some trouble, which might
just as well be avoided as not.