![]() ![]() Later he added further eulogies and said that he was proud of them. He said that he had to be prudent and might not be able to say all that he thought, thus intimating to his hearers that they might infer that he meant more, but he did say that those persons were paying the penalty for standing erect and for seeking to pave the way to better conditions for all mankind. The speaker began by saying that he had just returned from a visit to the workhouse in the neighborhood where three of their most loyal comrades were paying the penalty for their devotion to the working class-these being Wagenknecht, Baker and Ruthenberg, who had been convicted of aiding and abetting another in failing to register for the draft. With that we have nothing to do, but if a part or the manifest intent of the more general utterances was to encourage those present to obstruct the recruiting service and if in passages such encouragement was directly given, the immunity of the general theme may not be enough to protect the speech. The main theme of the speech was Socialism, its growth, and a prophecy of its ultimate success. ![]() Debs' sentence to ten years imprisonment and loss of citizenship was upheld. The Supreme Court decided against Debs, and maintained the power of the Espionage Act. United States (1919), in which the Court upheld a similar conviction. stated that Debs' case was essentially the same as Schenck v. In his opinion, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. While he had tempered his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act, the Court found he had shown the "intention and effect of obstructing the draft and recruitment for the war." Among other things, the Court cited Debs' praise for those imprisoned for obstructing the draft. United States, the Court examined several statements that Debs had made regarding the war. ![]() Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote or, for entire works, to Wikisource. Please help improve the article by presenting facts as a neutrally worded summary with appropriate citations. This section contains too many or overly lengthy quotations for an encyclopedic entry. This was one of three cases decided in 1919 in which the Court had upheld convictions that restricted free speech. The defense argued that Debs was entitled to the rights of free speech provided for in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights. This type of speech was outlawed in the United States with the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917. The argument of the Federal Government was that Debs was attempting to arouse mutiny and treason by preventing the drafting of soldiers into the United States Army. The case against Debs was based on a document entitled Anti-War Proclamation and Program, showing that Debs' original intent was to openly protest against the war. He was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 and convicted, sentenced to serve ten years in prison and to be disenfranchised for life. On JDebs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I. Debs was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for the American Presidency. 211 (1919), was a United States Supreme Court decision, relevant for US labor law and constitutional law, that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917.įacts Debs, at center, delivering the speech in Canton, Ohio, for which he was prosecutedĮugene V. White Associate Justices Joseph McKenna ĭebs v. Debs' conviction under this law is upheld.Ĭhief Justice Edward D. ![]() The Espionage Act of 1917 is constitutional, and Eugene V. ![]()
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