Show 1 STAND FOR lAW AND ORDER Debs Lieutenant Makes a Sensational speech at u St Louis i IS A VICARIOUS VICTIM Constitutionals In the Grasp of Leeches I q A a Revolutionist und I Defy tIle United States Courts to Put a Bit lit air aiontlt Tlie American Flag the Emlilcni or the Common People and Bfot tIle Dirty Has 01 Dishonest Plutocracy St Louis Feb 25Ii W Rodgers the lieutenant of President E V Debs addressed a largely attended meeting of the members of the St Louis trades assembly Mr Debs > was to have made an address but was detained at home because of his illness He made a sensational speech In which he referred to the arrest of httn self and companions 11 Rodgers sId I stand for the law and for order and the American Railway union not n-ot < of which I am and through which I have been made a vicarious victim T say to you that we have got to reassert the constitution of our fathers and wrest It from the grasp of the leeches of monopoly I am under sentence of the United States court and God linows I have been a true American I am a revolutionist and I defy the United States courts to put a bit in my mouth They cannot do I until that master of breath shuts mine off We simply stand on the rights that the good true brave men of 177C bought for us with their blood and if you are men you have got to make the same fight against the plutocrats pluto-crats who are daily putting the lash to your backs It < is a question between monopoly andif eeigovernment I am an American Ameri-can andIf you intend to be free men arid ifel vomen you have got to come out fairly Squarely for all the freedom and for all the law that Thomas Jefferson Jeffer-son wrote and that Monroe and Jackson Jack-son made all the nations of the earth respect I want you 1R ople to stand Squarely with me and reassert that the American flag is not the dirty rag of dishonest plutocracy but the emblem em-blem of the common people |