Show I In the old alien and edition laws one clause provided heavy fines and Imprisonment Im-prisonment for anyone who should conspire con-spire to opposs tho United States Government Gov-ernment or who should print or pub Ilffli any scandalous or malicious writings i writ-Ings against the President or Congress I Those laws were aimed at a score of I foreign writers and some natives who wcro assailing the Government with all I possible malignity denouncing It as I an empire and the President as IOn despot What If those laws had been In force In ths country during the post earTh ear-Th would have modified some thins that have been published and possibly might have saved the life of President McKinley I |