Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-03
POST IN SYMPATHY
WITH ANARCHISTS,
PALMER DECLARES

WASHINGTON, June 1.-(By the
Associated Press.)-Charging that
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of
labor, had a perverted sympathy"
for the criminal anarchist, Attorney
General Palmer told a house COM
mittee today that in dealing with at
temptS of the government to rid the
country of dangerous aliens Mr.. Post
had employed a "self-Willed and au-
tocratic substitution of his own mis-
taken personal viewpoint for the OBJ
legations of the public law"
Mr.. Palmer was testifying before
the rules committee. which is inves-
tigating the official conduct of Mr..
Post in deportation proceedings.
1T has become perfectly apparent"
Posts course in all the deportation
proceedings has been dictated by his
own personal view that the depor-
tatjon law is wrong, rather than by
any desire or intention to carry out
the law as enacted by the congress-
stitution of his mistaken personal
viewpoint for the obligation of pub
lie law; by his habitually tender So
licitude for social revolutioniSts and
perverted sympathy for the criminal
anarchists of the country, he. has
consistently deprived the people Of
their day in court in the enforce
ment of a law of vital Importance to
their peace and safety. By his whole
sale Jail deliveries and his release
of even self-confeSsed anarchists of
the worst type. he has utterly multi
fed the purpose of the congress in
passing the deportation statute and
has set at large amongst the peo-
pie the very public enemies whom 1T
was the desire and intention of the
congress to be rid of.
Dcfies Rules of Evidence
HE has defied the rules of evil
dence as laid down by our most re-
sponsible courts. has cancelled hun
dreds of legal warrants issued by
mis- department, entirely without JUS
has houted the JUDGMENT of " ON
mittee of the senate which has in
vestigated one of the cases before
him, has shown constant favors to
violators of the law and their at
torneys. refusing even common cour-
tesy to the department of justice,
which is charged with the duty of
enforcing the laws. and in order to
distract public attention from his OBJ
vious failure to perform his own du-
ment of justice a mass of charges
of misconduct in the hope that he
could put this law-enforcing depart
ment of the government on the de-
fensive in the place of those crim-
nal enemies of the country from
sought to protect the government
and the people"
Answers Charges in Detail
The specific charges made before
the committee by Mr.. Post were an
swered by the attorney general in
detail.
Mr.. Palmer said he had hoped sit
might never be necessary to indulge
in any criticism of another govern
ment official" but that courageous
and unconscionable falsehoods" laid
before the committee by Mr.. Post re-
CURED definite answers.
"It is not surprising" he added,
that Mr.. Post, when the opportunity
has presented itself in an official
way, to render a service to those
should employ it to the limit. He
has always been sympathetic with
that sort of thing"
Led Unconsciously
In answering Mr.. POSTS statements
that he had cancelled deportation
ranted such action" Mr.. Palmer cited
numerous individual cases which he
claimed placed the assistant secre-
tary in position of passive toll
erance and encoura cement" of boil
sheVik literature and propaganda. He
dlSO SuDullLGu EeCOIuS OIL Inc uSpdII
ment showing the particular persons
actively Identified with the spread
of the doctrine of the dictatorship
Of the proletariat. Mr.. Post continued
to cancel the warrants, Mr.. Palmer
said. "even after we had produced
evidence showing the individual to
have been member of the Com
munist party which the secretary of
labor had held to be unlawful"
Mr.. Palmer declared that Mr.. Post
had become a factor in the revolu-
tionary PLAN" but he credited the
led into it. ''unconsciously." He said,
however, that the attitude in which
he had pictured the labor department
official was one which antedated Mr..
POSTS service in the government.
Here he quoted from editorials writ
ten by Mr.. Post when he was editor
of "The Public" magazine which
the attorney general called very
radical"
Regarding Mr.. Posts assertion
that with all of these sweeping
raids. 'only three pistols have been
found" MIR. Palmer declared that
while the number of gunds found in
no way indicated the potential dan
ger Of the aliens, department agents
not only found scores of them, but
bombs and other implements of de-
struction as we'll"
counsel for Mr.. Post, that the de-
partment of justice had provocateur
agents in service who were engaged
in forming new communist local Or
CARNATIONS against which raids could
be directed were chara cterized by
the attorney general as deliberate
and unwarranted talsehoods." He
said that some of the department
agents, in order to gain confidential
information, had Joined outlawed or
CARNATIONS, but he challenged amy
body to show that ally one of tho
lepa rtment employees has ever or
gained or has been Instrumental in
carrying out the poll es or program
of eny radical organization"
THE TRUTE ABOUT GALL sToNEs
A new booklet written by DIR. E. E. Pad
dock, 1892 Brooklyn, Dept. SIS, Kansas City,
Mo-, tells of improved method of treating
catarrhal inflammation of the Gall Blad-
der and Bile Ducts associated with Gall
Stones, from which remarkable results are