The Washington times., 1921-02-24
The March
of EUentS
THE impeachment of Judge
Lands will never come to the


proportion is strong in the American
mind. And even a dull mind could
not fail to see the absurdity Of put
ting Judge Landis on trial before
the Senate for an act of leniency to
a tempted and erring young man,
while higher officials who have con-
temptuously trampled upon the man
dates and guarantees Of the Consti-
tuition and the laws go scot free.
So long as Woodrow Wilson was
not impeached for spending millions
of the public funds and spilling the
blood of hundreds of young Ameri-
can men in a privately conducted
and wholly unlawful military expe-
dition against Russia, and so long
as his Secretaries of State and
Treasury and War Departments are
not impeached or prosecuted for the
unlawful expenditure of public
moneys and the unlawful assistance
to foreign factions recruiting and
melting war upon governments with
which the United States is not at
war, so long would the spectacle OF
the Senate sitting as High Court
of Justice to try Federal judge for
an alleged error of judgment pro-
woke universal derision.
: 1t might be remarked, also that if
any Senator hungers and thirsts
with unappeasable desire for an i'm
peachment trial, one A. Mitchell
Palmer offers shining mark for
probably successful prosecution be-
fore the Senate or in the regular
courts.
Both as Attorney General and as
custodian of alien property the acts
of Mr.. Palmer were more detriment-
al to the honor of the United States,
more contemptuous of the plain
words of solemn treaty obligations,
more defiant of the guaranteed rights
and liberties of aliens and citizens
alike, and more morally criminal
and we think more legally criminal
than the combined acts charged to
the men whose property he seized
and whose arrests he ordered, with
out warrant or justification OF law.
The Senate that would sit to try
Judge Landis, while A. Mitchell
Palmer was not called to account for
his deeds, would be the laughing
stock of the United States.
Paris dispatches tell of the arrest
of two Socialist members of the
Chamber of Deputies, and OF the
discovery by the secret police OF
great plot to inaugurate red revo-
luton on May l.
The secret police have also dis
covered that the Reds are being
financed from America and Germany
with Russian gold. All France is
thankful that the efficient secret po
lice have thus saved the nation from
Red revolt, ETC., etc.
Persons who have good memories
will be struck with the resemblance
of the noble and heroic activities
and discoveries Of the French secret
police to the likewise noble and
heroic activities and discoveries of
our own secret police year ago.
At that time Mr.. Palmer's noble and
heroic secret police, it will be re-
lnembered, discovered that there was
a nationwide plot to begin terrible
Red revolution on May 1.
The fact that the Democratic con-
vention was to meet few weeks
later to nominate a candidate for
the Presidency and that attention
might possibly be called to Mr..
Palmer's modest ambition to be the
candidate, did not have anything
to do, Of course, with the revelation
of the desperate and awful plot of
the millions of Reds whose carefully
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