As part of the Espionage Act of 1917, U.S. Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson was authorized to seize and destroy any publication he deemed treasonous.

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The Espionage Act of 1917 granted the U.S. Postmaster General, at the time Albert S. Burleson, the authority to prohibit from the mails any material that he determined to be of a treasonous or seditious nature, effectively allowing for the seizure and destruction of such material.

As Part of the Espionage Act of 1917, U