The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1951-03-15

and will be presented to you by the
States Attorney. You will hear the
witnesses and determine whether
there is sufficient evidence for an in
dictment. In addition the cases al
ready prepared for submission to you,
it is your duty to investigate any
other offenses, which may be brought
to your attention, or any of which
you or any of you have personal
knowledge, and summon such wit
nesses as you may think necessary.
Remember in the performance of
your duties as Grand Jurors, you are
preserving one of our fundamental
freedoms. Under Communism, Courts
are a mockery. They exist merely to
execute the will of the rulers. Their
verdicts and sentences are arrived at
before going through the idle forms
Of trial. No Judge would survive the
firing squad who hesitated to do the
bidding of his ruthless master. APP
peals to justice are vain. The whim
of a barbarous ruler has been sub
Stituted for Justice. There is no such
thing as freedom of speech, freedom
of the press, freedom of worship, the
right to work when, where and for
whom you please; the inherent right
to establish "a new business or indus
try. The preservation of these things
is worth all the sacrifice of wealth
and of human life that may be re-
quired to maintain them, otherwise,
of what value is life?
Chapter SO of the Acts of the
Maryland Assembly 1919 Session pro-
hibits certain "Seditious and Subver-
sive Activities" 1t is provided in Sec
ton 6 of said law that the Attorney
General in charge of subversive ac-
tivities, whose responsibility it shall
be to assemble, arrange and deliver
to the States Attorney for any coun-
ty or of Baltimore City together
with list of necessary witnesses, for
presentation to the next Grand Jury
to meet in said county OF city, all in
formation and evidence of matters
within said county or Baltimore City
which have come to his attention, re-
lating in any manner to the acts pro-
hibited by said law, and relating
generally to the purposes, processes
and activities of Communism and any
other or related subversive organi-
cations, associations, groups or per-
sons.
Section 9 of this Act (Chapter SO,
Acts of l949, provides that the
Judge of the Criminal Court of each
county, when in his discretion it APP
pears appropriate, or when informed
by the States Attorney that there is
information or evidence of the charac-
ter described in section 6 of the Act
to be considered by the Grand Jury,
shall charge the Grand Jury to in
quire into violations of this law for
the purpose of proper action, and
further to inquire generally into the
purposes, processes and activities and
other matters affecting Communism
or any related or other subvcrsivc
organizations associations, groups OF
persons.
The Attorney General of Mary
land has recently appointed the Spe-
cial Assistant Attorney-General re-
ferred to in this Act No alleged
violations of the Act have been
brought to the attention of the Court
by the States Attorney for Garrett
County. The Court has been informed
by the States Attorney that there are
no matters that have come to his at
tention, that would make it appropri-
ate at this time to charge the Grand
Jury to make any investigation under
said Chapter SO of the Acts of 1919. !
However, that does not preclude
Sou, uiluCi yOui SCilci al lIIlulSl vi la
powers, from undertaking an investi- !
cation of any matters in this con-
nection that may be known to or may
come to the knowledge of any mem
Der Of the Grand Jury.
Governments to endure must be
founded on Justice, as the sum of
moral duty. The instinct of moral
justice is innate 1t is as much a part
of our being, as is the sense of smell
or touch. 1t is part of the natural
law of man. Men knew that murder
was unlawful, long before God gave
to Moses the command, Thou shalt
not kill True, these basic moral con-
cepts may be developed by cultivation,
and this is what constituted the edu-
cation of civilized society. This is at
the foundation of our civil laws,
which make for the extension of these
moral principles, not only to human
life, but to the things that make life
worth living, such as freedom of
speech, liberty of conscience, protec-
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