Why we are at war : $b messages to the Congress, January to April 1917Wilson, Woodrow
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Why we are at war : $b messages to the Congress, January to April 1917
Wilson, Woodrow
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
All alien enemies are enjoined to preserve the peace toward the
United States and to refrain from crime against the public safety
and from violating the laws of the United States and of the States
and Territories thereof, and to refrain from actual hostility or
giving information, aid or comfort to the enemies of the United
States, and to comply strictly with the regulations which are
hereby or which may be from time to time promulgated by the
President, and so long as they shall conduct themselves in
accordance with law they shall be undisturbed in the peaceful
pursuit of their lives and occupations and be accorded the
consideration due to all peaceful and law-abiding persons,
except so far as restrictions may be necessary for their own
protection and for the safety of the United States, and toward
such alien enemies as conduct themselves in accordance with law
all citizens of the United States are enjoined to preserve the
peace and to treat them with all such friendliness as may be
compatible with loyalty and allegiance to the United States.
And all alien enemies who fail to conduct themselves as so enjoined,
in addition to all other penalties prescribed by law, shall be
liable to restraint or to give security or to remove and depart
from the United States in the manner prescribed by Sections 4069
and 4070 of the Revised Statutes and as prescribed in the regulations
duly promulgated by the President.
And, pursuant to the authority vested in me, I hereby declare and
establish the following regulations, which I find necessary in the
premises and for the public safety:
First. An alien enemy shall not have in his possession at any time
or place any firearms, weapons, or implement of war, or component
parts thereof; ammunition, Maxim or other silencer, arms or explosives
or material used in the manufacture of explosives.
Second. An alien enemy shall not have in his possession at any
time or place, or use or operate, any aircraft or wireless apparatus,
or any form of signaling device, or any form of cipher code or any
paper, document or book written or printed in cipher, or in which
there may be invisible writing.
Third. All property found in the possession of an alien enemy in
violation of the foregoing regulations shall be subject to seizure
by the United States.
Fourth. An alien enemy shall not approach or be found within one-half
of a mile of any Federal or State fort, camp, arsenal, aircraft
station, Government or naval vessel, navy-yard, factory or workshop
for the manufacture of munitions of war or of any products for the
use of the army or navy.
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