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Show BERKMAN MUST GO. The supieme court having declined to interfere with the government's plan to deport Alexander . Eorkma-u, that notorious anarchist, who for years j lias made this country the theater for j the propagation of ultra-radicalism, will j be sent to the land w-Jiich spewed him J upon these shores. A brief stay has been granted in the . case of Emma Goldman, the aide of Berkman in the prosecution of anarchistic propaganda, I but there is every reason for believing : that she, too, will be returned to Kus- j siu. Eerkman is admittedly an alien; : the Goldman woman's claim to citizen-sh citizen-sh Lp by marriage will be closely inquired in-quired into by the supreme court.-. ! At' almost the moment the supreme court was passing on the Berkman-Goldman Berkman-Goldman pleas the so-called ' ' ambassador" ambas-sador" of the Russian soviet was telling tell-ing a New York legislative committee investigating Bolshevist activities in the metropolis that he did not propose to turu over his "official" correspondent correspon-dent demand for which h-ad been mudc. " Me declared that he was the ("duly accredited representative of the government of soviet Tiussia ' ' and that I it is the accepted principle of intcrna-Stional intcrna-Stional law that the correspondence be-I be-I t ween a foreign government and its I representative is privileged. j The soviet government has no official offi-cial standing in the United states; it i has not been recognized as a govcrn- meat, and any correspondence the TroUkys and henincs may have had with their fellow -conspirators abroad is not, therefore, fit all privileged, j Moreo or, very often the correspou-j correspou-j douce bet wee u a recognized govern-j govern-j uioiu and its representative? in otlwr : lands is privileged only when certain j events do not intervene. Kor instance, j j the highly privileged communications between Germany and its accredited j j representatives in "Washington and i elsewhere were dragged to light and I eial d 1st iugu i shed Germ a a represen- t a lives were given their walking papers. pa-pers. ; Kocout events have left no doubt as ,to the dangoroLiT- ramifications of rcvo-Uni'Uuiry rcvo-Uni'Uuiry activities in the United i Si ;.te?. and their s-amo developments c-titfti t Jt e a powerful argument for ' leuUIation which wii! buttress Amcr-1 i'a n int it ut ions against the domoral-li domoral-li .ing influence of imported social and apolitical teachings. Tlic extent of this i propaganda is forcefully illustrated by ; to-Miniony given before the judicia ry 1 'ommhtee of the li'iusc of ropresenta-1 ropresenta-1 lives. are told that sixty-eight .newspapers in iho I'nited States are iprti'.y advocating anred reoJut;on to i'e h ro w the gn e rn men t . Twt ;m v- i ' e:-Id -f this jjumber a re publM,.d by tiie ''N"fi;t ive cnmmiMee of the Indus-1 t;';.t Vo:'hers of the N'orld. ur are con-, luii-d by that coni :n i 1 1 ee. Altogether, ' there ;rv -'.'0 newspaper- in various ; i pari, of the country winch can he ji-tas.'ii as extraordinarily radical. All I the I. Y. W. newspapers uphold the ! M !, (i w Hi;, i; : f- i o an d i-".;. ' e ' ' p'a . a f .'r I ii'l'i -i' ri :i ! Vr-'-;r 0 x:j: World. T her : ;vi i n n n ,:i 're-s a b : ;i : d."! Ti'-'d ' o .':t an ff ; : i ve cri ir. p to ; ' 'u'c red at i t I knnn a , .!: P.yn,e biM. di -'i.'d t :a--e in ':C hj.nds '.i t'e d- partner: uf .iu-tic1 1 1 m p'.iw- r i , p !-m. (.- 1 jti;;i:n-t s- d' : iu - pu h!:i-at : "i:s -.1 "iw,t wh ir h cvci li'i-' li'i-' d' r ".r- f:.ioi ;( -u- a - ly, n'lt. ;'.;f:'iccd 1 to .-1 ay this v I r io u s pr :ss pro pa anda. i Ur.oYr i:s pro '. i -: n s ih.e 1. par ; !oen t of !ju-'ice c;;n stop t'ie publication of ; the-.e journals and j-iuseeut-j their cd-I cd-I i tor-. A d i ii gui-hed Br: ton now in this , country n.ade the si at emen t no', lotw ao that no otlu-r nation in the world except the l.'nited Stares would tolcr-1 tolcr-1 : 1 1 t Ii-.' la rf n u mber of foreign -lan-! mi age pi! 1)1 it; at ion s wliieii have been permitted to distribute alien doctrines without let or hindrance within the bou n da ries of America, usin g the go v-ernmeut v-ernmeut maiis in the process. A "wartime "war-time measure required a duplication in English of all foreign language articles arti-cles bearing on the war and international interna-tional relations. This put an end to certain instances of sedition, but for years this propaganda has been carried car-ried on without molestation. Any legislation "which will put a summary slop to revolutionary incitement, incite-ment, whether English or, any other tongue, employed by radical agencies, should be passed with a speed which will serve not ice on Bolshevists of whatever nationality that tlic United States is here to stay, in 'name and form of government and ideals. |