Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-01

Palmer Charges Post With 4.
HaUing Perverted Synlpathy' Il y
For the Criminal Anarchists
Testifes Before House Conn
mittee Which is Investi-
eating Conduct Of Mr..
Post in Deportations from
United States. 1

Washington, Junue 1.-tBy the 49,
sociated Press. )-Charging that LOUIE
F. Post assistant secretary of labor.
had a perverted sympathy" for the
criminal anarchist Attorney General
Palmer told house committee today
that in dealing with attempts OF the
government to rid the country OF
dangerous aliens. Mr.. Post had enl-S
ployed a self willed and autocratic
substitution Of his own mistaken per-
sonal viewpoint for the obligations Of
the public law"
Mr.. Palmer was testifying before
the rules committee which is investi-
eating the official conduct of Mr.. Post s
in deportation. -
Personal Views. ~
ut has become perfectly appar-
ent," the attorney general said, that
Mr.. Posts course in all the deporta- /
ton proceedings has been dictated ny
his own personal view that the de-
portation law is wrong. rather than
by any desire or intention to carry
out the law as enacted by the con-
gress.
"He has defied the rules Of evidence
as laid down by our most reputed'
court. has cancelled hundreds of legal
! warrants issued by his department.;
entirely without justification and IN
! face of the facts, has. Ahouted the
judgment of a committee of the sem
ate which has investigated one of the.
cases before him, has shown constant
| favors to violators of the law, and
/ their attorneys-and in order to. dis
tract public attention from his OBJ
/ vious failure to perform his own duty.
! has showered upon the department of
| justice mass of charges of miscon-
duct in the hope that he could put this
department of the government on the
/ defensive in the place of those crin-f
inal enemies of the government from
| whose activities our department ha1
sought to protect the government and
the people,"
/! Mr. Palmer said he hoped ''it might
never be necessary to indulge in any
criticisms of another government of
fetal, but the outrageous and u1-i
4 Questionable falsehood', laid befone
the committee by MlA, Post requires
definite answers
! Answers Statement.
I! In answering Mr.. Posts statements
that he had cancellation warrants
"only where facts warranted such ac-
ton" Mr.. Palmer cited numerous in-
placed the assistant secretary in a po-
sition of passive tolerance. and s5s en-
couragement" of Bolsheyikiljteratu
and propaganda. AE1. 49, r. . -
Mr.. Palmer declared Mr.. Post had
become a factor in the revolutionary
i secretary with having been led into it
'unconsciously." He said. however,
that the attitude in which he had pic
tured the labor department official
was one which antedated Mr.. Posts
service in the government.
a Real Menace.
While the witness believed Mr..
Posts "encouragem of the radical
movement had served to strengthen it
materially. he did not believe the red
doctrine ever would gain sufficient
foothold to overturn this governm ent.
but he warned it was a menace which
must be watched closely.
The specific charges made before
the committee by Mfr. Post were am
swered by the attorney general. S
Regarding Mr.. Posts assertion that
with all of these sweeping raids. only
three pistols have been found. - Mr..
Palmer declared that while the numS
her of guns found in no way indica ed
the potential danger of the aliens. de-
, nartment agents not only found scores
of them. but bombs and other imple-
ments Of destruction as we'll" Charges
by Jackson H. Ralston. counsel for
Mr. Post, that the department of JUS
tice had provacateur agents in service
who were engaged in forming new
communist local organizations against
which raids could be directed were
chara act erizcd by the attorney general
''as deliberate and unwarranted false
hoods" He said some Of the depart
, ment's agents. in order to gain conf
Dental information, had joined out-.
lawed organizations but he chai-
lcnEed anybody to show that anyone
employed by the department has ever
organized or has been instrumental in
CARRYING out the policies or program
OF any radical organization