The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-12-20


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ted by the courts or having served
the sentence inflicted by the court.
have again been seized by the
Cestapo and kept In q state Of ar
rest7 How many have been ex-
PEELED from their country and from
the place Of their activity!
again call To your minds the
venerable Bishop of Rottenburg.
the Most Reverend Johannes
sproIl. the 70-year-old man who
recently celebrated his episcopal
silver jubilee far from his diocese
bscsuse Tire Gestapc expelled him
from n three years ago. Again I
mention the two canons of our
cathedral. Fathers vorwerck and
Dchelmeyer. I think of our vener-
able professor of religion. Father
Friedrichs. who Ia wasting away In
. concentration camp.
Today I refrain from mention
ing other names. The name Of .
Protestant VIM, during the World
War, risled his Hfe for Germany
~ . German officer and submar-
lne commando, and who for years
now hos beea deprived Of his Nh
erty. You all know him. and we
have the highest esteem for the
valance and courage n q con-
fessor of this noble German.
A Christian Demand
You see from this example. my
dear brethren. that this IL not a
Catholic confessional demand that
! am expressing publicly today be-
fore you. but that 1t Ia q Christian
demand - q religious, human, ma
tional demand.
Justice ID the foundation of
states. Great h our regret,
great our concern, upon sec
Ing how this foundation 10
giving way today; how justics,
that natural and Christian vir-
tue. indispensable to the good
order Of every human COM
nunity, b not preserved and
kept sloft, visible and recog-
nizable by III.
II II not merely because Of the
rights OF the church or because of
the rights of human personality,
but also for love of our people and
with the most intimate concern for
our country that we beg. that we
demand. that we cry out: Jus
tice."
Foundations Slapped
Who would not fear for the sta
bility Of . house when he sees the
foundations sapped! Governments
can rely upon being held in honor
and freely served by men Of honor
only when the measures that they
take and the punishments that
they inflict are revealed to be, In
the light Of impartial judgment,
devoid of arbitrariness and in ac-
cord with the incorruptible scales
Of justice.
And that Ii why the condemna-
ton and the punishment inflicted
without possibility Of defense.
without judiciary process. the
condemnation without defense of
people condemned 4 priori." as
Reichminister DIR. Frank puts II,
engcnder . sense Of illegality, .
feeling Il apprehension. and SER
VIII cowardice which. In the long
I'm. must necessarily degrade the
character Of the people and destroy
TIE national community.
Such 10 the conviction and the
preoccupation of all Germans who
think rightly. It IL what = high
official of justice expressed openly
and courageosuly. in 1887. in the
Reichsverwaltungsblatt.
This In what he wrote: The
greater the plentitude of power in
an authority. the more essential a
guaranty for ones free exercise;
for errors can be more heavily
felt, and greater also is the danger
Of arbitrariness and abuse. II q
superior jurisdiction Ia excluded. IL
10 essential that there be in each
instance 4 determined method of
impartial control. in such q way
~ not to give birth to the feeling
Of illegality which. at length.
necessarily Is harmful to the COM
munity."
Menace To Community
In the punishments inflicted by