The Republican journal., 1921-11-10
CoMMUNIs TIC IDEAS OF JUsrIcB

A company payroll was seized by a
number of robbers at South Braintree,
Mass, April is, 1920, and two men were
killed, the paymaster and his guard. In
July of this year two of the bandits, Sac
CO and Vanzetti, were con victed of MUIR
ger IN the flrst degree by jury of the
Norfoik County Court. Their trial was
entireiy fair. The presiding Judge es-
peclally cautioned the jury mot to allow
the fact that the defendants are Italians
TO influence or prejudice you in the least
degree. They are entitled to the same
rights and consideration as thongh their
ancestors had come over in the May
Hover" Counsel for the defense were
allowed to file exceptions for the pur-
pose of appeal up to November l. In
short, every right was granted to the
defendants. Their case is not yet finally
determined
In the United States the trial attract
ed only the most casual attention. APP
parently it WIS one of hundred similar
cases. In New Jersey, for instance, the
punishment might have followed the
crime more rapidly. But Sacco and
Vanzetti belong to sacred class. They
are Communists. Intermittent demon
strations were made in Italy. In Octo-
Der an evidently organized protest by the
Communists and Socialists began.
Bourgeois capitalism" was assailed.
Manifestations were made against the
American Embassy in Rome. and these
were followed by other manifestations in
spite of the police. The brethren in
France took up the great cause. They
sent innumerable letters and kilograms
IN ,olr
sent him grenade, which failed of its
effect on count of the presence of mind
of the sometime British bomber who is
Mr.. Herrick's valet.
The Communists, indulging in their
cheerful habit of forgery, have manu-
factured for the Judge in the case state
ment that the defendants were "guilty
because of their ideas" By posters and
by articles in the Red newspapers the
Anarchists and Communists are urged to
insist on the release of these comrades"
and "innocents " In Paris a mass meet
ing has been called for tonight In Brest
yesterday a mob of syndicalists amused
itself by singing the "Internationale" and
smashing the windows of the American
consulate. The Communists of Brussels
have demonstrated" before the Ameri-
can embassy. All over Europe, appar-
emily, the various congeners of the Boil
sheviki are going to howl against fic-
titious injustice; accenting their protests
from time to time by little peasantries
such as internal machines. Doubtless the
faithful in this country will take up the
lamentation.
1t is an agreeable state of things if
members of the various societies of revo-
luton and destruction can't be punished
by the courts for their crimes; if a Com.
munist, for example, can't be convicted
of murder without provoking combined
efforts, assisted by assassination or at
tempts at it, of his fellows to shield him
from the penalty of his crime. Again
these destructionists have shown what
they are. At least their sentimental
sympathizers in this country, who have
been so Mortified by laws to prevent, so
far as possible, the teaching of these
missionaries of murder, might be awak-
ened into common sense by this exhi-
bition of the far-r aching danger of that
teaching; or do they really wish that
person clothed with the sublime charac-
ter of a Communist, an Anarchist, or
even Socialist, shall be exempt from
the jurisdiction of the criminal courts?
New York Times.