Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Corresponding Societies of the hour, with the imperative need of industrial reform staring us in the face, one-half of the American people fear to make even the most conservative of advances. Can we blame the laborers for their disgust? True, all signs of real anarchism must be suppressed, alien proselytes if they are found guilty of conspiracy should be ejected as we would throw a criminal from our house. But let not inordinate reaction block the passageways of progress...
...present stage of the conflict the position of the Secretary of Labor is impregnable. The crime with which he is charged by the Department of Justice apparently consists of a decision that membership in the Communist Labor Party does not "per se" render an alien liable to instant deportation. This decision is eminently reasonable and just. Secretary Wilson announces that after careful investigation he cannot find any part of the program of this party which advocates violence or the forcible overthrow of government. Many aliens, he further points out, are members of the party without knowing it. It seems hardly...
...that there are officials in this country who can tell a harmless radical from a bomb-thrower, who refuse to be swept into panic by the sight of a soap-box or a red banner. It is fortunate, too, that some of our courts have not forgotten that an alien, like anyone else, has his rights before the law--that he is to be judged innocent until he is proved guilty...
...assassination of governmental officials is attempted by the Reds today, as Attorney-General Palmer has predicted, all America will rise united as never before to crush the alien organizations which preach overthrow of the government by violence. The American plan of government is based on the right of any citizen to favor any changes in our form of government he may desire, so long as constitutional methods are followed. Every American has a perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when...
...when we consider that these were the views of a man high in authority, we cannot feel so well pleased. When he makes this accusation, does he actually imply that the "benefit of the doubt" should be AGAINST the alien, that a man should be considered guilty until he is proved innocent? We thought that such views as these had vanished with the Dark Ages. Popular hysteria against "foreigners and anarchists" has gone too far already, without the addition of such attitudes as that of this gentlemen...