The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-24

r. X Huger. writing from Mel
bourne, Fla, to the Manufacture
ers Record, says:
Personally. stand for the de-
portation or decapitation Of every
traitor to our country. ! do stand
for the rejection of the so-called
league of nations as whole
Major Huger is an old confed-
crate officer who was for many
years one of the leading railroad
officials of the south. Neither
strength of body nor of mind has
been affected by the passing
years. for Major Huger is the
embodiment of physical vitality.
and certainly his occasional let
tiers to the Manufacturers Record
show that he is likewise the en-
bodiment of mental vitality.
From the same Florida town
and from another subscriber to
the Manufacturers Record there.
we have a letter enclosing a clip
ping from the New York Sun,
giving an account Of the action
taken by number of clergymen
in protesting against the deporta-
ton of the aliens who were re-
Gently sent out of this country
because of their efforts to over
turn the government. And pinned
to the clipping are a few lines
from this Melbourne subscriber,
worded as follows:
"A roll of dishOnor.
"A disgrace to the churches.
How some splendid men have
been led astray by the powers OF
Darkness"
Evidently the subscriber who
wrote these words and Major
Huger fully agree as to how the
aliens who are trying to over
turn the American government
should be treated. Major Huger
says, "deport or decapitate every
traitor to our country"
This statement, given out
through the inter-church world
movement and signed by twenty
two so-called eminent clergymen,
is as follows:
"We, the undersigned, minis
tiers Of the church of Christ, be-
lieving that the political institu-
tions of our country commend
themselves to the reason and
conscience OF mankind sufficient
" to stand the test of such free
dom of speech as has hitherto,
in time of peace, been accorded
by our government to the aliens
who have come to us for asylum.
as well as to our citizens, are
moved to make, an appeal to the
people of the churches of Amerl-
ca on account of certain meas
ures, inconsiderately undertaken,
which threaten the basic princi-
pies of our government.
eve have in mind, in particu-
lar, the deportation of men with
out judicial trial, the proposed
represiye legislation now before
congress threatening the primary
rights of free speech, free press
and peaceable assembly, the sus-
pension of socialists by the New
York state assembly, and other
evidences OF an excited mood on
the part of many of our people.
We have long been saying that
constitutional changes can be ef-
fected without violence IN Ameri-
ca because of our right to free
expression of opinion by voice
and ballot. We cannot now deny
this American substitute for VIC
lence without directly encourag-
ing resort to revolution.
"In the conviction, therefore.
that our American institutions
will survive because they have
the willing allegiance OF the
majority Of our citizens, we urge
the people Of the churches OF
America to use their influence
for the return to that old faith
in the fundamental principles OF
our civil liberty"
The men and women who were
deported recently, and those who
have been arrested for deporta-
ticn, blatantly brag that for
years they have been trying to
destroy the American govern
ment. They do not for moment
hesitate to say that their dell
mite plan in life is to bring on a
revolution in order to overturn
this government and give to
America the same kind OF gov
eminent with which Russia has
been so greatly blessed" through
the work Of the same KIND OF
fiends as these men and women.
A small minority, almost wholly
alien in birth and alien in
thought to everything for which
America stands, representing
worldwide bolshevistic move
ment, one OF the dominant mot
toes of which is mo God. no re-
ligion, no church, and no! state,
officially say:
"The press, church, govern
ment and constitution can go
straight to hell! Down with all
constitutions, governments, capt.
talization. churches and syna-