Speech #530163928

It is not proposed iby this measure to make belief in anarchy a.crime. Therefore it is not necessary by the express terms of the bill to define .what anarchy is. No provisionis made for an indictment. no provision is made for punishment. but provision is made that such a person known as an anarchistshall not land in this country. andif he does land. by certain proceedings to be taken by or through the Secretary of the Treasury that person may be deported.The first section of the substitute providesThat no alien anarchist shall hereafter be permitted to land at any port of the United States or be admitted into the United States. but this shall not ho so construed as to apply to political refugees or political offenders. That last clause was deemed necessaryso as to avoid all question in regard to persons in other countries who are engaged in some proceeding to overturn one government in order to replace it with another. An anarchist. according to alL welldefined definitions. does not believe in any civil government:whatever. He can not be a political refugee within the meaning of the statutes upon that subject.. He believes in no form of civil or social government. He is a disturber of the peace of society.