Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-08
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eral smaller Iowa cities and at a
night meeting, in the Omaha audi
forum. In sixteen speeches during
the day he also restated his position
on various other issues of the cam
paign and during his address he de-
voted a hal flour to a plea for en-
forcement of law without terror
ism" or oppression.
Enforce Law
Pledging himself to law enforce
ment. the senator warned in his
speech here tonight against over
Jealous law and order crusades and
against 1.-The iron hand of czarism"
in the methods Of those in authority.
BY being "a little more generous in
it's attitude toward minorities, he
said. the government could help to
quiet discomfort and to keep the
agitators within bounds.
The candidate also. declared his
opposition to wholesale pardons for
political prisoners and repeated his
faith in the practice of deportation
of undesirable aliens.
Sometimes there are those so
Jealous for law and order he said.
that their words and acts in behalf
of our institutions constitute, in
themselves, serious breach of our
laws and an offense to our social
sense of what is fair and right and
just. Then the self-termed devotees
of law and order themselves become
menacing to our peace.
our laws should not be enforced.
For my part I can see no essential
differences between ordinary crimes
and ordinary criminals on the one
hand and political crimes and poll
teal prisoners on the other. / have
been asked many times whether
| would grant general amnesty to
political prisoners. l would not. A
general grant Of amnesty to politi-
cal prisoners is no more justified
| than a general grant of amnesty TO
yeggmen
None of us can deny that in
emergencies Of which war is one,
there is an unusual pressure for the
| conviction and punishment of men
and women who appear to be
thwarting our joint efforts in such
an emergency or who menace our
institutions. But these are cases
| which must be examined, each upon
its merits.
Many persons have fallen into
errors in regard to the practice of
deportation of undesirable aliens. I
would like to make these persons
VI hn
Of aliens see that if we may fairly
and justly stop the undesirable alien
as he attempts to enter our country,
50 also we have the right to lead
him forth and send him away when
he has become a menace to our
country after his entry into it. The
treacherous alien within our borders
must be led to our gateways and
told to go.
Perhaps more tragic than offenses
against our laws are the offenses of
injustice and of oppression which
occur occasionally by the acts Of
| those who are insincere or hasty in
the enforcement of our laws. Great
numbers of Americans believe that
they have seen within the last few
years grave injustice done ard harsh,
violent and unlawful oppression I'M
dertaken under the mask of enforc-
ing law and order. They have seen
too much terrorism.
| Il stand against terrorism and
abuse and brutality. When l say
that I am against terrorism | am on
! the side once more of law and order.
Not only is police frightfulness and
night stick brutality and third de-
gree oppression unlawful in itself,
| but l know of nothing which can so
| destroy the love which America
must in the end awaken in the hearts
of those who may learn to under
stand her.
I'VE shall not give countenance to
those who would force upon Ameri-
ca the iron hand Of Czarism. We
must not make the mistake Of be-
! lieving that it is possible for author
| NY to control the thoughts of men.
| When the pathetic minority begins
to seek to express itself in speech,
and in writing. and printing. it re-
/ quires all of our national good
sense to determine when that ex-
pT6SSlOH Is d menace.
II believe that the wisest govern
ments which the world has ever
| known. including our own. have
| found that much error evaporates
under exposure to the air. I believe
that one of the best ways to create
| in disconnected men and women the
conviction that they are wrong is
| for authority to be a little more gen.
erous than simply just and right.
Let no one believe, because 1 have
stated my condemnation of terrorism.
| will fail to draw line beyond
| which no man or woman III America
may go without paying swiftly, surely
and justly the penalty for their
treachery, their conspiracy and their
menacing presence.
II think the soice of America will
say clearly that we must adjust our
laws as to treason. sedition and agita-
ton against our institutions so that
these laws will conform to the Ameri-
can spirit Of a United America which
all men and women may learn to love-
We must insist that in the enforce
ment of these laws there shall be no
illegal brutality but when the laws
We have approved have been broken
we must act with sure precision and
answering authority to bring wrong
6oers to an accounting
At Anita, Senator Harding touched
on protiteering and cooperative mar
keting, declaring he had been told that
farmers in Minnesota received 20 cents