Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-18

of ours and the constitution Of the United States still lives. Well, never said they didn't But under the as- sault of Attorney General Palmer the constitution is being mutilated as none of the so7calleds Reds have ever. at tempted to do. The democratic party has been quite sick for some time, and when Palmer gets through with his grandStand play the 0bseuuies will be in order. It is difficult to get the drift of all the nonsense with which Mir.
 Willard fills his letter. but 1 would sum it up in one word: Camoufage.
 Cut cut the smoke screen, Mir Will lard, and come down to cases. Every crook in the country from the profit eers of big business down to their lick spittle agents have used this camou- fiage of patriotism to cover up their nefarious acts. The names of pirates who have gouged the government out of untold sums of money are legion. The burden of final settlement rests squarely on the shoulders of every worker in the country. Every one of these men have worked their dirty graft with the Stars and Stripes float Ing oven them and with their tongue in their cheek have professed to be models of piety and 100 per cent. Americans. A slick bunch of sancti- monious hypocrites. If Attorney Gen
 eral Palmer was fulfilling the duties of 1 his office, and working for the inter 1 ests of the public, he would be making l war on these real enemies of the coun- 1 try instead of creating the false inn pression that we are about to see our 1 country laid waste by a handful of l aliens. My previous letter was writ | ten with the intention of sarousing
 some of my fellow men to the fact ] that the majority of our public off, | cials, backed by the big business in- | terests of the United States, are doing 1 dem ocratic form of government than ! all the aliens in the country. They l are, under the guise of patriotism, | bending every effort to fasten upon 1 the American people an oligarchy 1 from which there will be no escape l There are now pending before con .
 gross a number of bills which if they
 are enacted will place the great mass
 of the people in far greater bondage
 than the citizens. of Germany were
 under the rule of the kaiser. Tn the early history of our country the peo-
 pie were in the habit of calling their
 representatives to strict account To-
 day it matters little what our hired
 men in Washington do. With the ex-
 ception of few staunch men and or
 ganizations here and there, any officia
 statement is accepted as a fact whict
 cannot be impeached. Mir Wilard's
 indignation seems to be largely be-
 cause 'I uphold the Red opagands
 that is spread throughout the land
 I really said nothing of the kind. But
 I believe that the Red prcpa aEands I would do us less harm than the stuff
 fed to us by the royal gang of prof
 iteers."
 My position is this; believe that i
 is impossible for any man to know what he is talking about if he has no
 had both sides of question presented to him. What, may 1 ask, do you thInl
 would be the verdict of a jury if the.
 only heard the prosecutors side of thu case? We must bear in mind that tn
 whole American people are a jury, ant at stated intervals are called on t register their verdict at the polls. N,
 man should presume to call himsef
 intelligent unless he drops all preju
 dice and examined question from al - angles. It is easy to follow the crowd ' it does not require any ihdependen thinking. How many people do yo1 } suppose have accepted MT. Palmer word as gospel fact in regard to thes deportations? The great majority. l fear. If any man should take the tim to think for himself he would realiz if any of these aliens were actuall IAS 1ll6 IO ONSE the SOY6TuEneD 2 by force they would have been quietl :! arrested and given 8 trial by jury a I our constitution provides. It is signfi e cant that of the three thousand take e in the raids none of them were armed 0 Furthermore, it would be the act of fool or madman to imagine that thre [ thousand men could overthrow tn
 United States with it's population ( over hundred million. If anyone 't interested to know the status of thes T aliens they should read the letter ( z resignation sent by Francis Fishe !. Kane to Attorney General Palmer. = The great fault with most of us Is that we are afraid of the unpopula r side of a question. and in that respet V we are moral towards. It looks as "a the prophetic words of Thomas Car n i iyle would prove true: Two centurie Ie hardly less. before democracy g 2 through its due. most baleful. stage .e of gugHkocreoy" Although Mir. Wi a laT1 was stirred to indignation by m V previous letter, et least one man. q prnmicant business nlAn, whom hay v. never met, wrote me personal lette .- thanking me for raising my vosc e. agsinst 6 propaganda that is boun l. to destroy this country.
 6. - GEORGE. B. CAEFBNILA
 Norwich, Conn., Feb. ls. 1890. a