The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-02
PALMER CHARGES
POST AIDS REDS
Attorney General d c
fends Record and Hits
Labor Chief.
LAW Is "NULLIFlED"
Assistant Secretary Of Labor
Disbelieves in Deportation
Law and Opposes 1t.

WASHINGTON, June Brand
ing tho wavo Of ultra radical
thought sweeping over tho world aa
n "mouaco 90 CIVILIZATION nud as -
direct threat 20 America, Attorney
Gcnernl Palmer today made "a de
fcnee of his anti-rcd campaign and
charged Assistant Secretary OF la.
Dor Louis f. post with having oh
Ftructod II. Ho alleged tho assistant
secretary wac in gympathy with the
anarchists
Appearing before tho house rules
committee to answer chargos made
by Assistant Secretary Post that
Palmer had committed various 'un-
constitutional acts In his allen
red" campaign. tho attorney gen
eral declared tho charges ARE
outraRcoualy false" and designed for
the purpose of oiatructing tho ad o.
ministratiun Of tho law.
lie charged that Secretary Post,
believing tho deportation law 20 be
wrong. had virtually "nulliflod' u.
'Tt II not surprising that Mr. Post
when tho opportunity has presented
itself In an official way to render n
service 10 thosa who advocate force
and violence should employ 1t 70
the limit lie has ah1ayr been sym
pathetic with that sort ot thing
Palmer declared
Releases Anarchists.
Tho attorney general then de
cihred In hundreds of cascs' Post
Ind released provon anarchists or
had modified their cases. He cited
nhout ~ M representative ones
Tho attorney general thon
launched into his view OF tho aiion
red" menace
Ho pointed out that bolahcvism
had spread TO ovcry part ~ the
world and was still spreading He
declared II was reaching into thia
country through the 7 w w. and
other organizations and through tho
medium OF at least three organiza-
tionR, propaganda IL reaching hun
drcds" Of thousands OF the work
men In this country"
The attorney general named the
communist labor party the I. w w,
the communists ana the communist
anarchists Of the federation or Rus
sinn workers OF the United states
They are helped. he said. hy the go
called "pnrlor bolshcvikl" and other
"pnisguidcd idealists."
while expressing Tho view that
the danger Is no, vet past. Mr.
Palmer said he did not believe any
attempt would ever succeed IN this
country. Ito declared tho Campaign
against II must continue and that u
must be backed by n definite gov
ernmont policy.
"T believe u will he one OF tho
principal privileges or our political
parties In the next campaign 10
frame and assert such n policy, n
duty M difficult. perhaps as II is
imperative n must aim at reforms,
moro than nj roprescntivc measure,
but II must recognize the govern.
ents inherent right OF self-proteo-
ton" Palmer declared,
Must Enforce Law,
He declared vigorous enforcement
OF tho law must bo continued and
tho law must he strengthened In
order 10 punish the citizen for the
offenses OF which the penalty for an
alien Is deportation.
"Most OF the individuals involved
in this movement are aliens" Palm
or said. "or foreign born citizens
There are some. however, or unques-
tionable American extraction.
some Of the leaders are idoalists
with distorted minds. many even In
sane, many are professional agitators
who are plainly self-seekers ana q
large number are potential or actual
criminals whose haseness OF charac.
ter leads them 10 espouAc unre-
strained and gross theories and tao.
ties of thpsp nrro N ntions" 4"