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Show FOGH IS GIVEN Fl ' YEARS INJJJ. PRISON Convicted for Seditious Remarks Re-marks and Opposition to Draft Operations. SOCIALISTS WARNED Request to Go to Leavenworth Leaven-worth Unescorted Denied Condemned Man. Five yearB in the federal peniten-tiary peniten-tiary at 'Leavenworth, was the penalty imposed yesterday in the federal court by Judgo Tillman D. Johnson upon M. P. Fogh, Socialist, who was convicted last Tuesday of uttering seditious sentiments sen-timents and defying the government to enlist him in the new national army. After having filled out his questionnaire, question-naire, Fogh wrote a letter to the local draft board, in which he said it was a crimo to shoot a German soldier, and that he would rathor be stood up and shot than fight for the United States, the record of which, ho said, was too bloody to warrant it in taking the part of democracy in the great world war. Fogh made a request of the court to be permittod to go to Leavenworth without a government escort, taking his own commitment papers. He was advised ad-vised by Judge Johnson that if such an arrangement wore made it would have to be with the United States marshal. mar-shal. The latter declared that the government gov-ernment would take no chances with a man who had expressed himself in the manner undertaken by the prisoner, and instead of being permitted to make the trip to prison without guards, he would be under the surveillanco of the most dependable men in the office of the United States marshal, and probably prob-ably ironed during the entire trip. Warns Socialists. In passing sentence Judge Johnson took occasion to express his opinion concerning certain classes of Socialists and others who have uttehed disloval sentiments, in the light of a warning to those who hold American institutions so lightly as to make derogatory remarks re-marks concerning them and the government govern-ment generally. The court said as follows fol-lows : The Court T wish to say to you in this case it is a difficult problem prob-lem to say what punishment the court should inflict. You are just a young man. You were born and raised m this country. Your views are such that at this time when the country needs sacrifice by our . young men, because they are the only ones that are worth while, you have taken an attitude that if all the young men of this country should take would make this country coun-try simply a vassal of the German government. Your liberties would be worth nothing, because you would have none. The means which you in your lifetime might be able to accumulate for yourself or your family would be by that government govern-ment ruthlessly taken as an indemnity. in-demnity. Other men, as good as you are, are offering their lives every day to prevent that very thing happening to you. That there should exist in this country a class of men who can think as you think and act as you act, is impossible impos-sible of explanation to the ordinary, ordi-nary, sane-thinking American citizen. citi-zen. Restricted Thinking. I have no doubt that yon feel in the sentence imposed that you are, in a sense, a martyr to your convic- tions, but I am impressed that you probably have been reading and thinking along lines that are so narrow, nar-row, that are confined so intimately intimate-ly to a particular class, that you have failed to take a broader view of your country or of its citizenship. citizen-ship. In times of peace men, who think as you, are regarded with a tolerant indulgence by the ordinary American Ameri-can citizen. There are not enough of you, and there never will be in this country, to really make any impression upon our country or subvert sub-vert its constitution or its laws; but in times of war men who think and act as you do constitute a menace. Such men as you, with your views and ideas, of necessity can add nothing and do add nothing noth-ing to the strength, moral or military, mili-tary, of this country. It is better that, during the continuance of these times of stress that the country coun-try labors under now, that you, and men who act as you, ought to be held under surveillance. By your conduct, as far as you are concerned, con-cerned, you have made that not only possible but peremptory. The judgment of the court is that you be confined in the penitentiary peni-tentiary at Leavenworth in the state of Kansas, for a period of five years. |