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Show OEBSDHTIM ILlfpfiON ATLANTA, Ga.. Feb. 2. F.ugene V. Debs, Socialist leader, now ser'lng a ten-year sentence in the federal prison for violation of the espionage law. was not "surprised nor disappointed," over the president's refusal to commute his sentence, According to a statement he( Issued through his counsel. " It Is my own only feur," the statement state-ment said, "that I might be Indebted for my liberty to Woo.lrow Wilson. My record, good or bad, is at least consistent consist-ent and that Is the only way It could havo been smirched." PITH s 1 1 V The statement referred to the president pres-ident as tho "most pitiful figure In history." his-tory." No man In public life in American history," it said, "ever retired so thoroughly thor-oughly discredited and scathingly re-bUKed, re-bUKed, so overwhelmingly Impeached und repudiated. Shortly after the No-vember No-vember election, his privato secretary made a pitiful plea for him, saying I that all he crave.l was the love of the people. This plea was stamped by the i people with the one Srord 'denied,' tho one word hi wrote on the back of I the recommendation for my pardon." Alter stating that he wa "never In I better physical condition than I am I at this hour," the stutement continued: DOKTWAN1 PAROL! j. "fr l'almer cillcfl attention to the fact that 1 shall be elegible to parole August 11, 1922. In unswer, I havo . i.v thut I shall iut apply for parole, nor accept It. 1 shall serve my term i or leuve here with an unconditional pardon. I came for my convictions ; md I shall not betray them for any , ...ltiy consideration su.-h as a parole. I may be in prison, but, unlike the man who keeps me here. I am not an exile from my country. When I leave i 'Lis prlBon, 1 shall go unrepentent. "Senator Capper showed that ojt of ; four Miliums annual expenditures for this country, that 97 per cent s spent on war. the result of war, and prepa-I prepa-I ration for war and that 3 per cent Is spent on education and constructive work. That's where Wilson stands. I tend for construction Instead of destruction de-struction and devastation " oo |