The Country Most Favored Beneath the Bending Skies #shorts
Channel: Skeleman
Date: 2022-07-18

Eugene Debs was the Socialist Candidate for President.
He was arrested for speaking out publicly against US involvement in the first world war. In court, he gave a speech and this is an excerpt.
He was sent to jail where we rain for president from his cell and received 3% of the popular vote.

The inmates apparently loved him and were sad when he was released. He said "I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison"

the excerpt is
"In this country—the most favored beneath the bending skies—we have vast 
areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in 
inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on 
earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that 
machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child—and if
 there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of 
poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth
 to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these 
hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty:
 it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown 
social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in 
the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all 
humanity"

full speech: https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/court.htm

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