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Show oo Last Speech of Debs Is Read at Albany ALBANY. N. Y , Jan. 29 Eugene V. Debs' "last speech before his voice was silenced" by n penitentiary sen-! tence of ten years for violating the ,H espionage act, was read into the rec- H ord today at the trial of the. five sus- H ponded Socialist assemblymen being H tried by the assembly judiciary com- iH mittce of charges of disloyalty. H In his speeches, made before Social- ;H islsc in Cleveland, last March, Debs declaring he speak "as Socialist, a re- H olutionist, a Bolshevist," praised Leu- IH ine and Trotzky "as the greatest statesmen In the modern world and H expressed defiance of tho laws of this H country and the supreme court." Tho H speech was distributed in pamphlet H form by "the city committee of the H Socialist party of Greater New York," according to the prosecution. H Algernon Lee, a member of the I New York board of aldermen, was the H first witness. He was questioned by H Judge Arthur E. Sutherland, regard- I ling the Kand school of social science. H |