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Show DEBS RECEIIS IMTOVAMI First Public Speech Since Leaving Prison Draws puge Crowd CHICAGO, Nov. 27. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Eugene Debs, leader of the Socialist party, made his first public speech since leaving Atlanta penitentiary here Sunday and was gien an ovation that delayed tho start of his address for more than an hour. Hundreds stood outside tho hall for hours after fire guards had limit 1 the audience to 4000 people. Jean Longuet, French Socialist. In whose honor tho meeting was held, was overshadowed by the demonstration demonstra-tion accorded Debs. "I am just recovering from the effects ef-fects of a speech I made almost four i year3 ago," Debs told the audience. J "It was a record making speech- I beg; i It at Canton, Ohio, and finished it at Atlanta penitentiary." "Thero is nothing to regret. I opposed op-posed the war and I still oppose wa.-. I Would not go to war at the command com-mand of an capitalistic country on the face of this earth. 1 would have saved the lives of CO. 000 American boys who perished on the battle fields' of France to create 30,000 new millionaires mil-lionaires In this country. I spoke at j Canton from a deep sense of conviction, convic-tion, and after ail 10 years is a very modest sentence for having an opinion opin-ion of your own, In the United i States." WOULD DEFY INJUNCTION. Ignoring the tight ot the Socialist I party leaders against the I. AV. W . Communism and the leussian soviet government, Debs, declaring himself a citix.cn of the world, embraced all three In the ranks gf "The Delendcrs of Free Speech." "Out of the war." ho said, "one gjreat good came, quite unexpected to the ruling classes of the world. That i was the soviet republic " lie praised the 19 Communists in-! eluding William Bross Lloyd, whoso conviction under the Illinois untl-syndlcallsm untl-syndlcallsm law was upheld a few days ago. He attacked "government j by Injunction" and said that if he had been In Chicago when the recent re-cent rail strike injunction was Issued he would have "asserted my manhood by defying It and the corporation law-yer-judge that Issued It." El ROPE I N B l) FIX. Jean Fontjuet devoted most of his address to an attack on Georges Clem-enceau Clem-enceau and the peace treaty of Ycr- I sailles. Clcmenccau, ho declared, "no i more represents France than Mr Schwab or Mr. plcrpont Morgan represent rep-resent the spirit of America.'' , I The fundamental cause of the pros-ent pros-ent situation In Europe, ho said, is the peace mado In 1319. and this wns a natural result of the continuation of tho wsr until that tine "The prolongation of the war." Mr. ! Fonguet said, ' and the refusal of the governing classes to try and reach any peace by negotiations, their ob- stinat policy of the knock-out blow i system, their refusal to accept, more especially during tho year 1917 Tn?: various proposals trying to meet tho possibilities of peace, have naturally led Europe to a mad nationalism. When tho peace treaties were i onclud- I ed this mad nationalism dominated , especially the victorious nations of Europe, and even In America the war psychology reached such a degree that those, statesmen of yours who' won a peace quite different from tho various treaties of the past, and morel especially Mr. Wilson, with his 1 I points, found himself absolutely pow-erless pow-erless against the intrigue of the I French. Italian and British Imperialism." |