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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, SEPT 30, 1948
Making It Hard To Study
By Daniel Bishop, St. Louis Star-Times
The Editorial Page—
Congressional Justice
The question of Communist infiltration into high government positions has become one of the focal points of the 1948 presidential campaign. President Truman has charged Republican members of congress with using their investigative power for purely political purposes. Republicans have charged President Truman and other administration officials with covering up for the alleged spies.
The investigative powers of congress are fundamental and important to the workings of American democracy. Those powers exist to furnish the people, through their elected representative, with a club to hold over the executive power. If used moderately and with a sense of public duty and responsibility, congressional investigations can perform a useful service for the people.
The Republican congress has fallen down in its duty toward the American citizens. By using committee hearings as an extra-legal court for conducting trials of citizens, the Republicans have tampered with the foundations of justice. Congress has tried to take over the powers of the courts.
No longer can a citizen of the United States feel safe in the constitutional rights of trial by jury, assumption of innocence until proof of guilt, or right to present evidence in his own defense. Any day he may pick up a newspaper and find himself charged with being traitor or spy. He has no warning and no defense. Before he has an opportunity to prepare a defense, his public reputation will be ruined, his name smeared, and he will be found guilty on the basis of evidence which would be inadmissible in any court in the nation.
The Republican defense that congress is merely attempting to serve as the watchdog of the nation falls down completely when the record of actual indictments and convictions which have resulted from congressional investigations is observed. For the sake of a few votes, congress is creating a new system of justice which resembles the worst sort of totalitarian practice. JLR.
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