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Show ANARCHISTS TO BE SUPPRESSED Special Message on Subject by the President, With Legal Opinion of the Attorney Generr.!. Chief Executive Declares the Anarch 1st Is the Enemy of All Mankind, and His Is a Deeper Degree of Criminality Than Any Other. Washington. In n special message, submitted to congress on Thursday, President Roosevelt called tho attention atten-tion of that body to tho necessity for lurtlior legislation on the subject of anarchy. With tho mcssaga ho transmitted trans-mitted a report reviewing the legal phases ot tho question by Attorney General Honnparte. Tho mcssngo of tho president Is ns follows: "I herewith submit u letter from tho department of Justice, wnlch explains ex-plains Itself. Under this opinion 1 hold thnt existing statutes glvo the president tho powor to prohibit the postmaster general from being used ns un Instrument lu the commission of crime; thnt is, to prohibit the uso of the malls for the advocacy of murder, mur-der, nrson nnd treason; and I shall net upon such construction. Unquestionably, Unques-tionably, however, thero should bo further legislation by congress In this mnttor. When compared with tho suppression of anarchy, ovory other question sinks into Insignificant. Tho nnarchlst Is tho enemy of humanity, hu-manity, tho enemy of all mankind, nnd his Is a deeper degrco of criminality crimi-nality than any other. No Immigrant Is allowed to como to our shores If ho Is an nnarchlst, and no paper published pub-lished hero or abroad should ho permitted per-mitted circulation In this country If It propagates anarchistic opinions. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hosldea his direction to tho post-mastor post-mastor gcnornl to oxcludo from the malls such publications as La Qucs. tlono Soclal'e, President Roosovclt in Ills letter to Attorney Qcncrnl Bonaparte, Bona-parte, asking for an opinion on tho legal phases of tho subject, says ho has had tho particular caso called to the attention of the governor of Now Jersey by Secretary Hoot that tho. governor may proceed under tho statu lnws. Tho opinion or tho attorney general, which tho president transmits trans-mits to congress, embraces a discussion discus-sion or tho whelo subject from many legal angles. His llrst conclusion la thnt tho nrtlclo in question, which advocntcs tho uso or arms and dyna-mlto dyna-mlto lu annihilating pollco and soldiers sol-diers that anarchy may prevail, constitutes con-stitutes a "seditious libel," nnd is "undoubtedly a crimo at common law." Tiro greater portion or his opinion is devoted to tho question or whether, in tho nbsenco or nny legislation by congress tho postmaster general has tho right to oxcludo such publications. On this point his conclusion Is: "Tho postmaster general will bu Justified In excluding from tho malls any Issuo of any periodical otherwlBo entitled to tho privileges of second-class second-class mall matter, which shall contain con-tain any nrtlclo constituting a seditious sedi-tious libel ntid counseling such crimes as murder, arson, riot, und treason." |