Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-11
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

tinued without leading to the very
abuses Of unfair alien competition with
American interests, II the visa rules are
rigidly enforced.
This exposure, through the courts, of
the stretching Of the non-quota status
of Canadians and Mexicans so that it
covered European arrivals in the neigh
boring territory, will tend to arouse
congressional interest In the matter of
including all neighbors in the quota
class.
The American Federation Of Labor
indicates that 1t is as much interested
in protection and relief as are the farm
ers in farmer relief and protection on
competitive crops. The crop" for the
| wage Garner is his wages, and his
cans!"
While upholding America first!" as o
good slogan, there Is another, invented
by President Lincoln, to the effect that
this is "a Government Of the people,
by the people," The peoples will is
expressed through their Representatives
and Senators in Congress. But what is
the answer when the Supreme Court
discovers that citizen under indict-
ment for conspiracy with o cabinet
official defies the Senate and refuses
to answer questions?
His excuse Is that he was so advised
by counsel--advised to hold in con-
tempt the highest law-making body of
the Government The private citizen,
thus miSled by his counsel, goes to Jail,
like pickpocket or highwayman, and
the proletariat breathes relief that, for
once, equality before the law is demon
strated.
But is it? What about the learned
counsel who conspired with his client
to contemn the law and defy his Gov
eminent? Is the shrewd counsel
exempt from conspiracy in contempt
OF court and contempt of the same
Government as that for which his
client suffers? Does the law exempt
lawyers from the punishment Of crimes
for which their duped client must suf-
fer? Who would affirm such a claim,
IN case the crime were murder or
robbery?
There has been shown great indig-
nation among law-abiding citizens at
the conspiracy of certain lawyers in
New York who band together with the
avowed purpose Of aiding and abetting
violations OF the prohibition laws
notably the Jones law with Its increased
penalties. The measure Of an adequate
penalty for any law is that 1t must be
drastic enough to prevent profitable
| violation OF the law; any penalty that
fails in that degree of efficiency is in
adequate. Yet the conspiring lawyers
announce that they will aid In evading
j the law-though sworn to uphold it.
Who Is the greater criminal-clieYit or
| counsel?
Laws, as we read in ancient sages,
Have been like cobwebs in all ages;
| Cobwebs for little flies are spread,
Laws for little folks are made;
But If the lawyers Of renown
Eetray their clients, then disown
When caught In search Of graft OF
plumber.
IT'S not the lawyers stung, by thunderl'
~ y X X
! Nevertheless, it does seem rather rad
ical for Shakespeare to make Dick, the
butcher Tin Henry WI, propose seri-
ously, THE first thing we do, let's Kill
all the lawyers"
| To this came the answer Of Cade, thu
rebel:
may, that mean to do. Is not thi,
a lamentable thing, that Of the skin o.
an innocent lamb, should be. made
parchment? that parchment, being
scrubbed Ger, should undo q man:
Some say the bee Stings, but say, III
Il the beeswax, for did but seal once t,
thing, and ! was never mine own maj
NC scoDn,sh. ,sas " Paul Y. collaus.l