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Show Till) t'ASK OF EUfJENE I1I211U.S Iii writing eonie thoushts on tho case of Eugene V. Debs The Cltl-en says the following: "Wo trust that wo are right when we say that Debs Is sincere Somo believe that this mild mannered man-nered old man, who lias spent tho best years of his life In revolt, Is consumed with hato because of what he has suffered and by reason of a diseased spirit. "For tho sake of argument we assume that he Is sincere and sincerity covers a multitude of malefactions. male-factions. "If Debs ought to bo released It is because he Is slncoxo and also because there Is a place in all Christian Chris-tian states for charily. "Eugene Debs never stepped on an ant without regiettlng It. For ears ho has been spouting elolence but doing nono. "And yet we may well consider whether moicy be misplaced In his case. Because ho Is mild man-nered man-nered and Kindly and venerable In Ills near approach to the old age thai leans against the gato of death, he Is apt to be all the more dangerous to socletj In his sheer slncerltj "If the law says to Debs, 'Go nnd sin no inoie," It will be nbsuid, foi Debs will not admit that he has offended, lie will ciy out that he believed he was a it arbor and speaker of the tiuth and that he ought not to be silent oven to escape ptisan. "On the other hand, we as a fieti pcoplo, ought to consider 'ttliat our llberlj stands for. If we aie so afraid of our Ilbeity that we must Heop all rltlcs In ptlion our liberty Is not worth haIng. If out-truth out-truth canuot stand up ngalust the- Debs, trull), It ought to fail and we ought to be in prison Instead of Debs. "SocIet ought not to ndntlt that It was wrong when It sentenced Debs, nor talk apolegetleall) about his having suffeted eppugh. Society should Justtf It self and set hint fre. It sboutd seltlm fteo because ho Is an old man who said what hu believed and because, be-cause, howeor wrong he was, he always was smuggling smug-gling In poverty for those hu deemed to be the oppressed. op-pressed. NIl should set him free ns an act of Christian Chris-tian charity. It should set him free because It does not believe that bo will bo able to do much hatm and because, indeed, bis release will take him out of the class of martyrs and deprive his champions of an argument. "And If H cannot free hint n ibis spirit and for Ihcse, reftbobfl It should keep him In prison." te k to |