Speech #660135310

I suggested the following amendment: On line 10. page 1. after the word " Government." insert as follows: "or to advise and advocate the overthrow or destruction of the Government of the United States." The bill says: Those who advocate or teach the overthrow of the Government of the United States by violence or force. I wanted to go a step further and make it the law that those who advocate the overthrow of this Government should be punished. and .that all such publications should be made nonmailable. The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. of which I am a member. have been having this subject under investigation for the last month. and I have been strenuous in my efforts to amend the law and do all I can to eradicate radicalism and to deport all those who teach doctrines against this country. and particularly to enforce the present immigration laws and amend them so as to make them more stringent. to the end that those people who have been arrested and those that may be arrested on these charges. wherever sufficient. might be deported. In substance both before the committee and elsewhere I hav2said that there is no more important subject before the American people today than that of eradicating radicalism. doing what we can to prevent I. W.