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from time to time, limited by the police forces of the country in the alleged interests of the public. They can be deported where there is a “clear and present danger.” The police can then interpose and prevent the right of free speech and the right of free assembly. If a man rises in the midst of Union Square and says that the workers of the world ought to set the Capitol on fire, there is no clear and present danger. But if he stands on the steps of the Capitol with a torch in his hand and there are ten thousand men around him armed with fire producing elements in their hands and says, “Let us set this building on fire,” there is a clear and present danger there and the police not only may, but should, arrest him and break up the assembly. It is for the police to decide and for the judges to decide after them whether or not a clear and present danger actually existed, otherwise the rights of free speech are to be practised without any limitation.

“The same has been held true,” said Wyzanski, pointing the cases out to me, “where persons who a re aliens have been arrested and deported for actions adjudged to be le ading to revolutionary action - that is, where there is a clear and present danger.”

At any rate, the ouestion was always in my mind at