Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-01-28

WASHINGTON, D. C.-In tho pro
test which is sweeping the country
against the Sterling Graham seditiOn
bill the labor organizations are taking
the lead. Farmer organizations ap-
pear to have failed to grasp the mean
ing of this measure, which in its three
or four different forms has been laud-
ed by the extremist press as being
necessary to save the nation from
''force and violence"
Congressman Baer and Sinclair OF
North Dakota, Keller OF Minnesota
and Browne of Wisconsin are among
the progressive members who have
jumped into the fight to kill the
scheme.
Advised by some of the best lawyers
in the country, including Alfred Rett-
man, wartime special assistant to the
attorney general in handling cases un-
der the espionage act, they find that
this bill would utterly abolish the bill
of rights and the Constitution itself,
insofar as the right of free speech,
free press and free assemblage are
concerned. Under this bill a federal
judge in West Virginia could declare
that the Farmers union, for example,
was encouraging an attempt to change
the laws or Constitution of the Unit
ed States, and thereby he could outlaw
the entire membership of the Farm
ers' union throughout the country.
Under this remarkable scheme Of
claw and ORDER" drafted with no re-
gard for the Constitution, it could be
declared a crime to wear button of
the Nonpartisan league, the Republi-
can party, or the Plumb Plan league.
Representative Carss of Minnesota
is another congressman who has taken
up the battle against this perilous
hysteria, and with Baer, Sinclair and
Keller has discussed it with prominent
labor leaders. The railroad brother
alton of Labor, finding the progress
sives of the Northwest with them,
brought pressure upon the rules CON-
mittee which resulted in blocking the
hasty passage of the bill and in the
granting of public hearings upon it.
NEW YORK WORLD PROTESTS.
The New York World declares in an
editorial that if the Sterling Graham
sedition bill is enacted it can not
henceforth print in the World Alma
nae the Declaration of Independence,
although it was the instruction Of the
late Joseph Pulitzer that the Declara-
ton should be printed every year in
the Almanac as matter of patriotic
tion be published when it contains this
seditious language from the pen OF
the dangerous red agitator, Thomas
Jefferson:
prudence, indeed, will dictate that
governments long established should
not be changed for light and transient
causes: and, accordingly, all expert
ence has shown that mankind is dis
posed to suffer while evils are suffer
able, than to right themselves by abol-
ishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train Of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing in
variably the same object, evinces de-
sign to reduce them under absolute
despotism, it is their right, it is their
duty to throw off such government
and to provide new guards for their
security. Such has been the patient
sufferance of this people,
Jefferson is dead. Daniel Webster
and other American orators who ex-
tolled the immortal Declaration are
also dead. Senator Sterling and Mr.
Palmer and Mr.. Burleson are unable to
hold them for their part in setting this
doctrine af1oat in the thinking of a
| hundred million people. But if any
body thinks that such doctrine will be
tolerated in this country henceforth,
either in a World Almanac or in a
Fourth of July celebrallon, that person
had better take legal counsel before
saying so.
DEPORTATIONS ALARM.
Alarmed by the effect which raids
for reds are having on our foreign
workmen, the large interests are now
making hurried attempts to calm the
waters they have stirred up One of
their organizations in New York is
putting on a propaganda to explain
the foreigners to Americans. All the
big-city press will be running edito-
| rails and news stories along this line
in the near future.
We have missed European immi-
! grafton during the war. Our big in
dustries are short of unskilled labor
that will take miserable wages And
| in the face of this government officials
| are suddenly overwhelmed with re-
| quests for passports to return home.
For every workman arrested so far
| with deportation in view, thousands
have decided that they want to go
| back. All who do go back, the de-
portees and those who pay their own
fare, will be bad missionaries for those
who want to recruit foreign labor. On
the face of things it looks as though
| the powers-that-be realize that a seri.
GUS mistake has been made.
LAND GRAB BILL PASSES.
| When the watornOwor hill u,oc IN