Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-18
thority beyond that Of. the Government
itself.
Must Protect Alien Rights

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Zone specific thing must ask at
your hands ut the earliest possible mo-
mcnt. There Ii pending a bill to pro-
vide for the better protection of aliens
md for the enforcement Of their treaty
rights. 1t is a measure. In short, to
create a jurisdiction for the Federal
courts through which the National
Government will have appropriate
power to protect aliens in the rights
secured to them under treaties and to
deal with crimes which affect our for
eigh relations.
THE matter has been before Congress
on many previous occasions. President
Tyler In his first annual message ad-
vised Congress that In rs much as the
Government IL charged with the main
tenance Of peace and The preservation
of amicabc relations with the nations
Of the earth, II ought to possess with
out question all the reasonable and
proper Means of maintaining the one
and preserving the other
Recommended by Others
president Harrison asked for the
same bcstowal of jurisdiction, having
encountered deep embarrassment which
grew out Of the lynching Of eleven
aliens in New Orleans in 1901. Prccssi-
dent Mckinley, dealing with like
problem in 1900, asked the comforting
upon Federal courts jurisdiction In that
class of international cases where the
ultimate responsibility Of the Federal
Government may be involved. Presi-
dent Roosevelt uttered a like request
to Congress in 1000, and President Taft
pointed out the defect In the present
| Federal jurisdiction when he made his
inaugural address in 1000. He de-
clared that 1T puts our Government
in a pusillanimous position to make
definite engagement to protect aliens
and then TO excuse the failure to per-
form these engagements by an eXplana- :
ton that the duty to keep them Is In
States or cities not within our control.
If we would promise, we must put
ourselves In a position to perform our
promise. We cannot permit the pos :.
sible failure Of justice, due to local
prejudice In any State or municipal
government, to expose us to the risk OF
war which might be avoided II Federal
jurisdiction were associated by suitable
legislation by Congress-
Recalls Herrin Crime
"Niy renewal Of this oft made recon-
mendation is impelled by a pitiable
sense Of Federal impotence to that with
the shocking crime at Herrin, ILL.,,
which so recently shalned and hOrrified
the country. In that butchery Of hui
man beings, wrought in madness, II is
alleged that two aliens were murdered.
This act adds to the outraged sense of
American police, the humiliation which
lies In the Federal Governments con-
fessed lack of authority to punish the
unutterable crime.
Had 1t happened In any other lang
than our own, and the wrath OF
righteous justice were not etectively
expressed, we should have piticd inc
sarrow for tha govcrnment unwilling
or unable to mete out Just punishme mt.
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punish those VINO sanction them.
Refers tn Labor Warfare
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.ne wa" ol p"tlehI cohierehce
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Is Is omly i"ii W .ake cosniIance: IL Is
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aaJus.iheht' Jin rsler 10 % the warfare on
the Unions vi .apor' Inc u0Verhment
% nus no synpa.ny or approval tor thls
rieneh' OF ulsGora IN the ranks or IN
uus.rs; ANY leg'slallon IN the future
nlust oe aS lree from TINS element OF
trouple haklhg as 1t IS from iabor cx-