Evening star., 1925-05-24

CTON, ANTONIUS PIP
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
pionage." Just what that is ! leave
to your imagination.
In a word, n man living in Soviet
Russia today must realize that his
life, as we'll as his property, is to all
intents and purposes at the disposal
of the central executive committee.
which claims such power under article
l of the civil code. from article 33 and
, 81 of the criminal code, and in virtue
of the special regulations for the judi
ciary proposed by Acting CommiSsar
Of Justice Krilenko and accepted by
the central executive committee on Oc-
tober %, 1922. Among these regula-
tions you will find the following sig
nincant words: IF a ser nee does
not correspond with the spl # Boil
shevik legislation il can alway "an-
celed." This means Cancelled L. he
central executive committee)
This dfctatorial power of life and
death through party control of the ju-
dietary was later affirmed and formally
incorporated in articles 20 and 43 of
the new constitution of December
1922. And as the central executive
committee is bound by section l Of the
constitution, as well as by the general
cisions, not in accordance with the OBJ
1ectlVe merits of a given case but in
sympathy with the social economic
and political purposes of BolShevism-
which need no definition here-I be
lieve it to be a valid conclusion that
| Soviet Jurisprudence. under which a
national of the United States would
have to live in Russia at present, Is
complete barrier to normal interna-
tional relations
Not Negotiable Issue.
Nay, more-these rights which So
Wet legislation denies TO large groups
OF Its own citizens. and a fortiori TO
foreigners, we hold to be inalienable.
! flowing from nature itself, consequent
on our physiological structure and the
capacity of our intellectual facilities
for Interior development, and consti-
tutlng, as they do, the necessary
means for fulfilling our social instincts
and achieving both our natural and
supernatural destiny. No America n
legislature. no executive, no admins
tratlon which has taken oath to SUD-
port the Constitution and perpetuate
the principles of the Declaration of In
dependence can consider them as fall
ing within the zone of negotiable is
sues. We inherit them, as does the
ieuSSidii peopIe, WIN our common hu-
man nature. Sovereignty ultimately
resides in the people as a whole and
1t Is the sovereign people which desig-
mates a given government to exercise
| d limited and delegated power. 1t is
contrary TO all right reason, contrary
TO nature. as well as to the fundamen.
| tai concept of government. that the
| instrumentallty created by the people
| snoutd IN turn attack the inherent
lishts Oh the people and thus nullify
the very purpose of it's creation. II
was in defense of these rights +hat
our own Declaration of Independence
was written and vindicated. In the
cause of clearer definition the bill of
rights was included in the .Constitu.
ton.
Would Extend System.
have proposed these disabilities.
liot III crlllclsm OF the internal gov
eminent of Russia. A nation NAV set
up on its own territory any form of
government and administer its domes.
nc aHairs as it sees fit. and we would
nave no right to dictate to them. But
Please remember two things: The So.
wet government, according to its con-
stltution and the pronouncement of
Its responsible spokesmen, intends to
extend that system to the United
states. l Know that it is a grotesque
idea, but when 1t is embodied in the
organic law of the land. YOU cannot
dismiss 1t. Secondly, following recoe.
nltlon' Americans going into Russia
would have to live under those condi
tions and submit to the extrayagant
whims of the Communist dictator.
We have considered some of the dis.
abilities weighing on the American
citizen resident on Soviet territory.
Let US consider for a moment the
legal status Of the Russian citizen who
emierates to the United States and
begins life under American institu
tions. If / interpret the genius of
our laws Alright. he falls heir to a
rich heritage of human liberties q
legacy sealed and consecrated by for
rents of patriotic blood that flowed
freely in their defense from Bunker
Hill to Chateau Thierry and st. Mi
hiel. He may in due time ACQUIRE
citizenship with its rights and pro-
tectlons; he may acquire property
which will not be conf1scated without
due process and just compensation:
his person is protected by habeas
corpus; in courts of justice full ere.
dence Is given to his testimony, IRE.
spective Of party affiliations; he NAV
conduct his business without undue
interference from the state; his family
life and his children are sacredly re-
spected by Government which rev.
erences the natural law and acknowl-
edges the inherent right of parents to
educate their children.
The clear conceptions and unequivo-
cal expression of the limitations Of
government enunciated in the Declara-
tion of Independence and our Federal
Constitution are but other ways of
affirming that before the state made
US citizens God made us men. To pro-
tect that manhood and secure it's in
herent rights, governments are in
stituted among men, men are not in
stituted by governments, and these
inherent rights cannot be 'extin-
guished" by any fiat of civil society.
Finally, the Russian immigrant, in
common with all law-abiding citizens
of the land, is accorded full religious
liberty. with it's necessary corollaries.
freedom Of speech. of the press and of
assembly and petition.
And all this while his competitor,
the American merchant in Russia. Is