Show IID ocia is I ie Des 10 ai M T RV 1 fA Conviction of Socialist I Leader of Violating I Espionage Act Conf Con Con- firmed y U. U S. S Court f lON March I W supreme court to ay I sustain d th conviction or Eugen y Deb Socialist leader found guilty of violating the espionage act through statements made In a. a at Canton 0 last De an ent n d. d to ten Yf ars' ars im- im 1 7 In d cl i thi dHe t coon In effect upheld th eon or the soca-d soca or t e espionage act or The of th o rt s As in the case of the espionage cases last the su- su court In Its opinion toda made no ruling upon the constitutionality con con- of the ge act The court Its opinion upon that part ot the charging obstruction f recruiting fi af- af PROVI ONS OF LAW T art of the act Is the most In the and not onlY makes It a to circulate false reports re- re ports for the purpose of with military and naval operations and enlistments but also prohibits the utterance ut- ut terance or of profane pro pro- fane or abusive language about the form of goverD- goverD meent military forces flag or 01 which Is to bring them Inlo contempt or Intended to encourage re- re to the United States or to cripple the country In the prosecution or war CAREER Deb four a candidate fr president of the States h Industrial life as a locomotive firl man on the Terre Haute Indianapolis lie was born In Terrt I I I sixty ago For many eaIS he was prominent in the firE men brotherhood playing an aNI part In big strikes In h 1 was a of the Indiana ture In 1900 he ran for on onI the Social Democratic and hei was the candidate of the Socialist par I t In 1904 1908 and 1911 I IThe CHARGE HE FACED The Indictment on Dehs convicted charged him with Ing to Incite Insubordination ally mutiny and refusal of th military and naval forces a to obstruct recruiting and and with uttering and publishing guage Intended to and I age resistance to the d States ell as to promote the nem s cau The Indictment contained t 11 I but conviction was onh on e MACE OWN ARGUMENT placed on trial Debs called I witnesses In def nse and made the only argument In his own behalf Tn appealing ap- ap I pealing to thE he attacked at tacked the admission In I W the lower of the St Lou is I t platform which hI bad and records from tIll trial ot nOle 1018 tor Stokes and he had blen tried on his state of mind of the espionage art was also by Debs who It violated the right of tree COURTS COURT'S In t hp In th court f was unconstitutional ad 0 1 that the charged In th t ment the utterance of an- an designed to encourage esil tance to United States and t c mote the cause were nt to warrant conviction on that Por that reason the go ern made no further contentions rele rel- rel e to that charge in enacting the i d on lage l'age f i I I I I I I I I I I I I I i i D DEBS MUST SERVE E I Continued n from page 1 intended to coyer cover all wilful interference with the process process' ot of raIsing an army and argued that guarantees guarantees guaran- guaran tees of oC tree free speech did not Include Intentional intentional In- In Incitement to violations ot of law OPINION OF JUDGE Justice Holmes delivering I the poin- poin lon loll reviewed the statements made by Debs in his Canton speech and also the charge that had been made by the lower court to the jury The maIn th theme me ot of the Debs speech Justice Holmes said was Socialism Its growth and a a. prophesy ot of its ultimate success success With that that he continued we have nothing to do but it a part ot of the Intent of the more general general gen gen- eral utterances was to encourage those present to obstruct the recruItIng recruiting recruIt recruIt- Ing service and It if In passages such encouragement was dIrectly gIven the I ImmunIty ot of the general theme may I Inot not be enough to protect the speech Referring to statements made by Debs Dabs while addressIng the jury In I which he saId I have been accused I or of obstructing the war I admIt it Gentlemen J I abhor war I would oppose the war It if I I stood alone Justice Holmes saId The statement was not necessary to warrant the jury In finding that one purpose ot of the speech whether r Incidental or not does docs not matter was to oppose not only war In general gen gen- eral but this war and that the tho opposition was so expressed that Its natural natural nat nat- ural and Intended effect would obstruct obstruct ob- ob recruiting It If that was Intended intended In- In tended and It if In aU all these circumstances circum- circum stan stances es that would he be Its probable effect It would not be protected b by reason ot of Its being part Qt of a general program and expressIons of a gener general l and belief |