Send the Alien Anarchist Back Home Instanter

ANARCHISTS are the enemies of the human race, and the civilization against which they war has a right to suppress them like venomous snakes. But this right, however, does not help us in showing how it can be exercised. It is easy to [say?] that international measures should be taken to protect society against anarchists. But it is not so easy to explain how measures are to be devised which would find international assent.
     A MAN CANNOT BE PUNISHED FOR HIS OPINIONS, according to our view, nor can any collecti[?] of men be punished for enunciating among themselves such opinions. But there are countries in which it is held that they can. Here is the initial difficulty of general action against the anarchist creed in all nations. A criminal opinion only becomes a punishable crime when an individual or an association of individuals confederates together to give effect to it against some other individual.

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     I believe that no international agreement can be arrived at in regard to anarchists, and I should be sorry were we to be a party to one. Each country, however, owes it to the common bond which unites civilized nations to do what it can to put an end to its being used as an asylum from which assassins can plot and carry out their designs against citizens of other countries, whether the victim be a sovereign or the humblest of workmen. So far as countries like the United States are concerned, the only thing that can be done is to strengthen the power of the executive over aliens and, as is usually the case in the United States, over foreigners who have acquired nationality. WITHOUT ANY PROCESS OF EXTRADITION, I SHOULD BE IN FAVOR OF ARMING THE EXECUTIVE WITH POWER TO SHIP OFF ANY ALIEN IN REGARD TO WHOM THERE IS REASONABLE GROUND FOR BELIEVING THAT HE IS AN ANARCHIST AND TO LAND HIM IN THE LAND OF HIS BIRTH, DUE NOTICE HAVING BEEN GIVEN TO THE AUTHORITIES THERE OF HIS ARRIVAL. Beyond this I [?]ould not go one step. We have always been proud of England being an asylum to all who on political grounds are driven out of their own country. It ought still to remain an asylum to those who rightly or wrongly are desirous to secure liberty by revolution in those lands where it does not exist.
     BUT WE MUST NOT HOLD THAT CRIME CEASES TO BE CRIME BECAUSE SOME SCOUNDREL OR FANATIC TELLS US THAT IT IS A POLITICAL PRINCIPLE WITH HIM TO COMMIT IT.
     When aliens admit that they are herded together like oriental thugs to commit murder and when they make our country their home, I see no reason why they should be tolerated. It is only right and proper that they should be expelled.