The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-06-01
is ALLY
OF REDS SAYS
GEN. PALMER
Attorney General Claims I'm
migration Official is Uncon-
sciously Aiding Revolution
by Easy Methods.
DEFENDS RED ALIENS?
(By Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, June 1.-Charging
that Louis F. Post, assistant secretary
OF labor. had prevented sympathy"
for the criminal anarchist, Attorney
General Palmer told a house commit
tee 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 auto
cratic substitution of his own mistak-
en- personal viewpoint for the obliga-
ton of the public law.
Mr.. Palmer was testifying before the
rules committee. which is investigat-
ing the official conduct of Mr. Post in
deportation proceedings.
ut has become perfectly apparent"
the attorney general said, that Mr..
Posts course in all the deportation
proceedings has been dictated by his
own personal view that the deporta-
ton law is wrong, rather than by any
desire or intention to carry out the
law as enacted by congress By his
self-willed and autocratic substitution
of his mistaken personal viewpoint for
the obligation of public law; by his
habitually tender solicitude 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
enforcement of a law of vital import
ance to their peace and safety. BY
his wholesale Jail deliveries and his
release of even self-confessed anarch-
lists of the worst type, he has utterly
nullified the purposes of congress in
passing the deportation statute and
has set at large among the people
the very public enemies whom it was
the desire and intention of the con-
gress to be rid Of.
Has Defied Evidence.
"He has defied the rules of evidence
| as laid down by our most responsible
courts, has cancelled hundreds of lc-
gal warrants issued by his department,
entirely without justification and in
the face of the facts, has flouted the
! judgment of a committee of the SEN
ate which has investigated one of the
cases for him, has shown constant
| favors to violators of the law. and
| their attorneys, refusing even common
courtesy to the department of justice,
| which is charged with the duty of EN-
forcing the laws and in order to dis
tract public attention from his obvious
failure to perform his own duty, has
of charges of misconduct in the hope
that he could put this law enforcing
| department of the government on the
| defensive in the place of those crimi-
I nal enemies of the government, from
whose activities our department has
sought to protect the government and
the people"
| Doesn't Like Criticism
d., he irh
never be necessary to indulge in any
criticisms of another government Of
ficial The outrageous and unconsci-
ena BILE falsehoods" laid before the
committee by Mr.. Post required defi-
mite answers. ut is not surprising"
he added, that Mr.. Post, when the
opportunity has presented itself in an
official way to render service to
those who advocate force and vio-
lence, should employ it TO the limit.
He has always been sympathetic
with that sort of thing"
In answering Mr.. Posts statements
that he had called deportation war
rants "only where facts warrant"
such action, Mr.. Palmer cited numer-
Gus individual ca ses which he claims
placed the assistant secretary In a
. position of passive tolerance and en-
couragement" Of Bolshev1k literature
, and propaganda
He also submitted records Of the
department showing the particular
persons actively identified with the
spread of the doctrine of the dictator
ship of the proletariat. Mr.. Post con.
tinued to cancel the warrants, Mr.
Palmer said. even after we had pro-
duced evidence showing the individ
: ual to have been a member OF the
communist party, which the secretary
of labor had held to be unlawful"
Mr.. Palmer declared Mr.. Post had
become a factor in the revolution
plan, but he credited the assistant
secretary with having been lead into
, it unconsciously. He said, however
:, the attitude in which he pictured the
labor department was one which ante
dated Mr.. Posts service in the depart
ment.