DOWN WITH ANARCHISM
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS EMPHATIC DECLARATION BY MR ROOSEVELT. SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS. Dy Telegraph-Press ‘ Association—-copyright (Received April 10, B 22 p.m.) XMW YORK, April 10. President, Roosevelt, in a special message to Congress, cites the opinion of Air Uomiparto, Attorney-Gen-eral. that ibe circulation of periodicals advocating murder, arson, and treason conslitiitoj seditious libel and is undoubtedly a crime nt common la*. Mr Roosevelt says in the absence of a Im floral statute dealing with this mutter the Federal Courts have no juri.diction. Tlio Postmaster General will now bo Instructed to exclude such publications from the mails, but further legislation by Congress is required. The message states that compared with the suppression of anarchism every other question sinks into insignificance.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6492, 11 April 1908, Page 10
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