New Ulm review., 1921-02-02
Official paper Of New Ulm, MINI.
The Turn In The Road.

1t is long road that has no turn
but when the turn does come-unex-
pectedly mayhap-it well behooves the
traveller to recognize it and govern
Himself accordingly. Failing to do SO
will cause him to be led from the road
and from his destined course.
Quite often it occurs that public
officials and private citizens disregard
the fact that the road they are travelling
-fguratively speaking, OF course
will not always be straight, but that,
sooner or later, they will be confronted
by turn which they must negotiate.
Some people in public and in private
life are blind to this fact, however,
and almost invariably are compelled
to suffer the consequences.
One of these men is Attorney General
Palmer, who, during the hysteria
caused by the war, high-handedly
aboragted what few liberties the people
still enjoyed after the dangerous cur
tailments and prescriptions decreed
by the fallen czar-President Wilson.
Palmer was unrelent:ng in his perse-
cutons of those people who were too
honest to attempt concealment OF their
convictions anent our entrance into
the World conflict and his henchmen
bounded them night and day.
This relentless and pernicious perse-
cution of citizens, whose principal con-
Germ was the safeguarding of the IN
terests and the welfare of the United
States rather than their own personal
safety, probably more than any other
individual cause, was responsible for
the downfall of the present administra-
ton and the crumbling of the walls OF
President Wilson'S fantastic air castles.
Palmer may have acted as he did
on the assumption that he was playing
winning hand in the great American
game of politics, when he inaugurated
his unrelenting campaign Of imprison-
ing and .deporting alleged radicals and
instructed his agents and spies tc
arrest and harass American citizens
but succeeding events have proved
that as a political progn osticator he
was dismal failure. AS result of the
lawlessness instigated by him and car.
ried on under his orders, the pigmy
attorney general of the United States
has suffered disdain from all classes O.
citizens, so that when a dozen leading
attorneys of the country filed brie
with Congress, charging him with
deliberate disregard and overriding
of the Constitution not one voice II
all the broad land was raised to defenc
him.
While very uncomfortable for Mr.
Palmer, in that it proves that he ha
not friend left in this country, th'
fact that he is left without defende
is very encouraging for the rest of us
for it shows conclusively that tn
American public has finally becom
ashamed of the hysteria into whic
it was stampeded by Palmer and hi
tribe and is experiencing pangs g
conscience for its gullibleness.
With the passing of wars hysteri
has come a saner and clearer precep
Of facts as they really are, among the1
being the indisputable truth that de
porting men does not rid us of the
ideas, which, as in the case of a
martyrs, take on new life after tn
man has gone.
Palmer, like reckless motorist VIII
in cautiously speeds along the highwa.
has come to the turn of the road. NJ
able to stop in his wild, blind cours
the momentum has hurled him into tt
political ditch, where, broken an
bleeding-in spirit at least-he lie
with not even a Good Samaritan t
linger sufficiently long to pour oil int
his wounds. How the mighty hal
fallen!