Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1919 — EUGENE V. DEBS MUST SERVE 10 YEAR SENTENCE [ARTICLE]

EUGENE V. DEBS MUST SERVE 10 YEAR SENTENCE

Washington, March 10.—Convictions under the espionage act of Eugene V. Debs, socialist leader, and Jacob Frohwerk, a newspaper editor of Kansas City, were sustained today by the supreme court in unanimous opinions, delivered by Justice Holmes. Both men were sentenced ■by the lower courts to ten years imprisonment. While not passing directly upon the constitutionality of the act, the court in effect did declare valid the socalled enlistment section and reaffirmed its opinion that the espionage law is not an interference with the constitutional right of free .speech** Debs was convicted on three counts, but the court passed direcuy on only one of these, that charging him with obstructing recruiting and enlistment through statements made in a speech at Canton, 0., last June. The other two counts charged him with attempting to incite insubordination and disloyalty and also with uttering language intended to Provoke and encourage resistance to the United States government. In arguing the case before the supreme court, however,- the government did not pres sthe last charge.