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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday November 26, 1918
Case Against Comrade Debs to Be Hurried Before Supreme Court
From the Ohio Socialist of November 20, 1918:
Debs Case To Be Hurried
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The daily press carries the report that the case against Comrade Debs on appeal before the Supreme Court is to be hurried, the government prosecutors having asked the Supreme Court to advance the case.
Why this unseemly haste one may ask? Is it feared that with the coming of peace the policy of continuing the jailing of prominent Socialists may meet with the disapproval of the common herd who are learning so fast these days? Do the government prosecutors fear to have an American Liebknecht free in the land? This leads to another question: Isn’t it possible that Debs in prison will become a more potent power against the capitalist system than Debs in freedom?
Liebknecht in prison or Liebknecht free the revolution came just the same to Germany. Take your choice gentlemen, for whether Debs goes to prison or remains free the capitalist system of production is doomed, and all the courts of all governments can not give it one breath of life.
[Photograph added.]
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SOURCES
EVD Quote, cry for freedom, Duluth Truth, Feb 15, 1918
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/parties/spusa/1918/0215-debs-towardsrisingsun.pdf
The Ohio Socialist
“Official Organ of the Socialist Parties of Ohio and Kentucky”
(Cleveland, Ohio)
-Nove 20, 1918
Note: see articles by Debs on pages 3 & 4.
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/ohio-socialist/043-nov-20-1918.pdf
IMAGE
EVD Rose Stokes Max Eastman, Cleveland During Trial
http://debs.indstate.edu/e13t7_1918.pdf
See also:
Tag: USA v Debs 1918
https://weneverforget.org/tag/usa-v-debs-1918/
Karl Liebknecht
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht & Germany 1914-1918
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/liebknecht_karl_paul_august_friedrich
German Revolution of 1918-1919
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319
The Dream of Debs by Jack London
CH Kerr, 1909
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073391354;view=2up;seq=1
Hellraisers Journal Wednesday January 24, 1917
From the International Socialist Review: A Story by Jack London
“The Dream of Debs” -Fictional Account of a General Strike
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