The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-03
What About Guarantees of the
Constitution?

There is pending now before the
court for review the of William The udg
ment of the court will affect millions of foreignborn
naurazed American citizens will determine whether
not naturalized American citizen protected by the
of the Constitution of the United States the
native born whether native born American citizen shall be
frstclass citizen and naturazed American
a second-class citizen.
Article XIV of the Constitution of the United States,
vdes A persons born naturaized in the United States
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof citizens of the
United States and of the state wherein they reside
Article "The in the Constitution of
rights shall not be construed to deny dspaage 9TH
retained by the people,"
of political opinion of the inherent rights of
American citizen and freedom of speech specifically guar
Article of the Bill of Rights Abrogaon of these
rights involved in the of William Schneiderman
William Schnederman brought to this country by his
parents when he was three years old When ne was eighteen
years old and student at the University OF California ne
piled for citizenship which granted to him when he was
years DID, in 1927 On June 12 1910 Federal Judge
Michael Roche of San Francisco ordered his citizenship
voked judgment civil suit brought against Schneider
the u S. attorney general The sole basis of the suit
Schneiderman member of the Communist party
charged against him. and evidence
sented that he had committed any crime.
There are some eight million naturalized citizens in the
United Shall the citizenship of the Democrats be jeop
by Republicans vice versa? opinions political
social questions must follow sereoyped pat
laid down by and departure from that para
dgm shall constitute grounds for legal action against them
then has happened the provisions of the Bill of Rights
And finally what has happened to civilization?
Strange things happening in country and is
entirely probable that still strange trends may become
manifest the distant One the nand we
find the members of the Communist party being prosecuted be-
their political opinions and their economic and social
conform to the capasc pattern and yet we
they the ardent supporters of the pro-
gram the national administration which has brought us step
by step shooting war; This apparently ignored by
the legal division OF the administration just as the MEMBER
ship the Communist party to have forgotten that
until June 1941 they all professed isolatonists.
The matter of vital and immediate Importance however,
of the handful of members of the Communist
States The matter of the most i'm
porance the Communists the Democrats Republicans
Constitution the right to their opinions and the right to
express them That fundamental enunclated by Thomas
jefferson said: "The minority their equal
rights which law must protect and to violate which would be
oppression.
1t pertinent consider statement made June
by United States Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglass There up this country second
or of citizenship There is for in
grade Where has been allowed the result has
been the downward spiral of disunty.
We be "ha slave and half free in our right to
our opinions and their expression Establishment of rule
of that character will spell disaster.