Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-10-05 | Page 8 | Max Eastman Speaks for Himself in Trial

MAX EASTMAN SPEAKS FUR FOR HIMSELF IN IM TRIAl H New York fork Oct Get Arguments i. i in the tho CASC se use of Max Eastman J and his aSh asky- 0 sates ates In the publication of ot The Masses ras cs on cm trial in III federal cu here on on char charges of oC conspiracy on to lo hamper the war tr preparations of lIf the nation were completed this thin afternoon r Eastman who had testified at length In in his own behalf surprised the court h by bya 1 a request to tn be allowed to plead n case rase a c. c The request was grant crant- p l Eastman Hastman spoke for tOI nearl nearly an hour hOI vigorously denyl denying nS' nS an 10 In Intention on till the thc part of himself and his asso- asso It HIel es to Interfere with the tha govern govern- 11 prosecution of or the tho war and denying that ho he was Wile an anarchist Ue He Te closed cI his Fla address with tho the re- re to tn the jurors that they consider the 1110 antiwar ar sentiments expressed In III The Masses I I sel os OR paving been written n single Jc soldier had Put foot font In n the trenches and before a 3 single allor had gone gone a aboard oard a battleship mid Imd that Uy exercise judicial re restraint ro- ro when the tho governments government's attorneys attorneys r- r lie us as aM 10 1 and pacifists