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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
DEBS GUILTY IS
FEDERAL JURY'S
VERDICT IN CASE
Noted Socialist is Convicted
q Have No Complaint to
of Violating Espionage Act
Make, His Comment,

tEr MORNING JoeRNAL SPECIAL LEASED wREl
Cleveland, c., Sept 12.--Eugene V.
Debs, charged with violating the es-
pionage act, was found guilty by a
federal jury today.
Talking to newspaper men after
the verdict, Debs said:
"It is all right. have no complaint
to make. 1t will come out all right
In Gods good time"
OF the original ten counts Of the in
dictment but four remained when the
jury retired to consider the evidence.
The verdict found him guilty of three +;
not guilty of one. He was found guilty
Of attempting to incite insubordina-
tion, disloyalty, etc, in the military
and naval forces; attempting to OBJ
struct recruiting and uttering Ian
guage tending to incite, provoke and
encourage resistance to the United
States and to promote the cause of
the enemy.
The count on which he was ad-
Judged not guilty as charged that he
opposed the cause of the United
States.
Counsel for both sides said that
they considered Judge Westerhaver's
instructions fair They were exhaust
i've and delivered in a kindly manner.
He made no comment on the evidence
which presented bv the government.
was affirmed bv the defendant, but
assured the Jury that the espionage
act was wholly valid.
Jury Out Five and Half Hours.
The jury was out five and a half
hours, mostly spent in assfmilating the
file distinctions between the four
counts.
When 1t was announced that the
Jury was ready to report. Mrs. Rose
Pastor Stokes. herself under convic-
tior or \ srniliar charge. came inside
the railing for the first time. Previo-
usly at Debs' request she had remain
ed hidden inlthe body of the audience
She drew her chair beside his and
into her hands he slipped his own
eaunt paw where it remained while
the clerk was reading the verdict and
polling the Jury. She had expected an
adverse verdict from the first ad-
mitting it to her friends. Nor was It
a surprise 10 Debs. In his address TO
the jury Yesterday he said he had not
one word to retract, and rather went
out of his way to accept the damaging
st. Louis anti-war platform.
The maximum penalty is twenty
years Imprisonment and fine Of
$4,000.
Judge Westerhaver stated that he
would hear counsel on a motion for
a new trial next Saturday morning.
Debs until then will remain ut liberty
under the trial bond
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
FEARS OF MEXICAN
CITIZENS ALLAYED

wv NoFNlN0 JDphN~t SPECIAL LrhNEp WtFHi
Washington, Sept 12.--In order to
allay fears on the part of Mexican
citizens that they will be caught in
the military draft If they come to
this country. telegram was sent to
Ambassador Fletcher at Mexico City
by Secretary Lansing quoting a ruling
Of Provost Marshal General Crowder
MS 10 the nreetse oneration of the
selective draft law The ruling says
in part:
1T will be necessary for all MeXi-
can citizens between the ages of IS
and As. who are in the United States
on September ~ to present them
selves for registration on that day.
A Mexican citizen who comes to the
United States after Septenber 12 l.
not required to register unless he de-
clares his intention to become a citi-
zen of the United States or unless a
later proclamation shall require the
registration Of persons Of his age in
the United States"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13

house of the Kentucky legislature.
In 1871 he was elected a member
Of the house OF Representatives at
Washington and Vemained a member
Of that body for eleven years. presid.
ing as speaker protein over theg reati
er part OF the sessions Of the 44th
congress.
In 1896 his name was presented to
the democratic national convention as
Kentucky's choice for president but
William J, Bryan was nominated He
was delegate in the national demo-
cratic conventions from 1850 to 1904,
and took active part in the campaigns
In 1909 after rcsigning from the
lsthmian Canal commission. Mr.
Blackburn returned to his home in
Kentucky. Congress passed a joint
resolution in 1914 making him special
resident commissioner on the board
charged with the erection of the ma
tional memorial 10 Abraham Lincoln
In Washington and in 1915 he laid the
cornerstone of this monument
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
MCCORMICK DEFEATS
BIG BILL THOMPSON

tsv MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIRrl
Chicago. Sept. 12.-Figures from
yesterdays statewide primary cleo
ton tonight showed that Medill Nc
Cormick defeated William Hale
Thompson. mayor of Chicago. for the
republican nomination for United
states senator by plurality of 45,930
with 600 precincts of the 5,454 in the
state missing.
Final figures from Chicago, how
ever. gave Thompson plurality of
1886, while McCormick's plurality
outside of Cook county and not includ-
ing the 500 scattered precincts miss
ing, was 81 ,465.
1t is believed that the complete re-
turns which probably will not be
available until tomorrow, will not ma
terially change the relative figures.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
FORMER SENATOR
BLACKBURN DEAD
At RIPE OLD ACE
Noted Kentuckian, of Recent
Years Resident Commis-
sioner of Lincoln Memorial
Association, Passes Away


Washington, Sept. 12.-Joseph G s.
Blackburn, former senator from Ken
lucky and in recent years residen
commissioner of the Lincoln Memorial
commission, died early today at his
home here. He was stricken shorty
with a recurrence of heart attacks
from which he was chronic sufferer
Senator Blackburn was almost So
years old. AS a member of the 18TH
mian Canal commission, he had
charge of the civil administration Of
the canal zone more than two and
a half years from 1907.
AS a member of the United States
senate for three administrations and
as chairman of the senate democratic
caucus in 1906 and, consequently
leader of the party in the senate, J
C. s. Blackburn. of Kentucky, for
many years occupied a prominent
position in national politics.
He took a conspicuous part in tho
memorable fight for free silver in the
national democratic convention OF
1896 and was one of the leaders Of
the free silver wing Of the democratic
party.
After his retirement from the SEN
ate In 1906, President Roosevelt ap.
pointed Mr.. Blackburn a member Of
the reorganized Isfhmian Canal com
and civil governor of the Can
al Zone, a position embracing the ad,
of courts, schools, publit
works and all civil organizations.
Mr.. Blackburn was born October /
1888, in Woodford county, Kentucky.
Upon graduating from Center college
he moved from his Kentucky home to
Chicago where he practiced law for
two years.
In 1861, he espoused the Confeder
ate cause, and after serving for three
years as -de-eamp to Genera
Preston. he was given an independent
command in Mississippi After the war
he returned TO Kentucky as a lawyer
and planter but his law practice was
cut short by his election to the lower
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
Arrest English and French.

Stockholm. Sept 12.-Eleven> Eng
lishmen and eleven French citizens
have been arrested and imprisoned
in the fortress of st. Peter ana St.
Paul in Petrograd. according 10 ap-
parently reliable information received
here today from the Russ.an city
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
LOCAL REPORT.

A summary of local weather condi-
tions for the tweny-four hours end
ing at p. m. yesterday follows: Mex
imum temperature, SO degrees; mini
mum. So range, 81; temperature at
clear.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
THE WEATHER
FORECAST.

Denver, Colo, Sept. 12.--For New
Mexico and Arizona: Friday and Sat
urdaS fair; not much change in tenn
perature.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
AUSTRALIAN SWIMMER ~
IS SLAIN IN BATTLE
L.y nosn,se Ieuss.l srselal .s.ssp w,ss1

Paris. Sept. 12.--Lieut Cecil Healy.
a widely known Australian swimmer.
was killed by bullet on the Somme
battlefield September /. according to
LIE Journal.
The lieutenant led party of 500
swimmers cross the Somme, enveloped
the enemy positions and captured
Mont st. Quentin, the key to Peronnes
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13
HOUSTON IS PLEASED
OVER CROP OUTLOOK

Minneapolis, Mimi, Sept. 12.--David
T.. Houston, secretary Of agriculture,
spoke enthusiastically of the crop sit
uation throughout the northwest dur
ing a brief stop here today.
Il am gratfied with the tremendous
CROP which is now being threshed," lie
said
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-09-13

washington, sept. 12.---Money saved
by automobile owners through not us
ing their cars on Sunday should be in
vested in War Savings Stamps or Lib
erty Bonds. says an official sermon
cite issued today BY the treasury.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
THE FORCES OF DISUNION.

I now como to the last of what in
the beginning of my speech | have
termed the trinity Of our principal
tasks.
In speaking OF the Forces Of Dis
union | am taking very little account
Of that Insignificant number OF men
OF Gerrhan origin who. misguided or
COrTuI6, dare by insidious and
underground processes to attempt to
wealien or oppose the resolute will Of
the nation. There are too few of
them to count and their man
euGers are too clumsy TO be
effective. Nor do | have in mind
those, a small minority always and
getting smaller every day, who lack
the vision to see their duty or the
strength to follow it, and who stand
irresolUte, hesitantT and dazed. The
vast and overwhelming majority of
German-Americans so-called have
acted like true men and loyal Amer
leans. They are entitled to claim
your sympathetic understanding for
the heartache which is theirs and
they are entitled to claim your trust.
II will not be misplaced.
The element ! do have in mind
when / speak of the foes of national
unity are the preachers and de-
votees of liberty run amuck who
would place a visionary class in
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
INHERITANCE TAX.

Our Federal inheritance tax is far
higher than it is in England or any
where else, not TO mention our State
inheritance taxes.
Of her total actual war expendi-
lures (exclusive of loans to her al
lies and interest on war loans), Eng
land has raised less than 10 per cent
by. taxation (France and Germany
far lessl, while America is about
TO raise by taxation approximately
% per cent Of her total war require
ments Exclusive of loans TO the
allied nations and of the amount 10
be invested in mercantile shibs.
which, being Z productive invest
ment, cannot properly be classed
among war expenditures)
do not say all this to plead for
. reduction of taxation on wealth.
or even in order to urge that no ad-
ditional taxes be imposed on. wealth
if need be. There is ne limh to the
burden which, in time of sEress- and
strain, those must be willing to bear
who can afford it. We are ready and
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
TYPOS BACK MORCOCK
TO HEAD INTERNATIONAL

E. w. Morcock. Of the GovernmSnt
Printing Office, Is backed for Presi-
dent OF the international Tvpographi-
cal Union at the next election, IN
May, his friends announced today. His
campaign will be handled BY W. q
Jones and Flournoy C. Roberta spe-
ciaI agent for the Bureau OF ImmigrA-
tion, Department OF LabG., who II
now In Porto Rico.
Initial plans for the campaign were
made at the meeting Of tho columbia
typographical Union. No. 1o1. ysstsr-
day afternoon. Morcock was presL
dent OF No. 1O1 for two terms Ths
present incumbent OF the IntsE1ap
tionaI Typos il Marsden @. Scott.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
STOCKHOLM PRICES UP
17PER CENT IN MONTH

STOCKHOLM. Jan. 14.-An increase
Of II per cent in the cost OF the neces-
saries Of life is shown in the official
bulletin OF food costs for Stockholm
for the month OF December. This
increase over the costs in November
makes the total increase since the
beginning of the war 110 per cent
A war bonus of 81 per cent Of preo-
ent municipal wages IL being given
laborers. There has been no butteR
sold In Stockholm since January. =
and the milk supply Is fast diminish-
ing.
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MUST BRIDGE GULF.

We must bridge the gulf which
now separates the employer and the
employe, the business man and the
farmer, IL the existing order of
civilization is to persist | believe
in change and in progress and social
justice. ] yield to no one in the
warmth of my sympathy with those
whose life is a hard and weary
struggle to make both ends meet
and In the genuineness of my desire
to see their burden lightened. l be-
lieve that It should be and
must be our sincere and sustained
effort to cooperate toward bring
ing into the lives Of the masses
of the people more Of ease and COM
fort, more of the rewards and joys
of life than they now possess. | be-
lieves this Is not only our duty but
our interest, because if we wish to
preserve the fundamental lines of
our present social system we must
leave nothing practicable undone to
make it more satisfactory and more
inviting to the vast majority of those
who toil-and | do not mean those
only who toll with their hands-than
it now is.
We must not deal grudginCly with
labor; we must not look upon labor
unrest and aspirations as temporary
troubles" as a passing phase, but
we must give TO labor willing and
liberal recognition as partner with
capital. We must under all circum-
stances pay as a minimum a decent
living wage to everyone who works
for a living. We must devise means
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
NO PATIENCE
WITH MEN Who
WOULD PROFIT
THE WAR

death7defying and unconquerabls, q
the soul Of man.
And when-Heaven grant it may
be soonl-the soul Of the German
people will have freed itself from
the sinister powers that now keep Il
in ban and bondage, when it win
have found again the high impulses
and aims of its former self, when
it will understand once more and
speak the universal language Of hu-
manity and right, then, in Gods own
time, there will be peace.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
ASSAILED BY BEFRIENDED.

1t fills me with burning indigna-
tion to see the very foundations of
that majestic and benefcent struc-
ture clamorously assailed by some
of those to whom the great republic
generously gave asylum and to
whom she opened wide the portals
of her freedom and her opportuni-
ties. These people, with many hun
dreds of thousands of their country
men, came to our free shores after
centuries Of oppression and persecu-
tiOn. America gave them every
thing she had to Eivc-the great
gift of the rights and liberty of citi-
ZenShip, free education in our schools
and universities, free treatment in
our clinics and hospitals, our bound
less opportunities for social and
material advancement.
Most of them have proved them
selves useful and valuable elements
in our many-rooted population.
Some Of them have accomplished
eminent achievements in science, in
dustry, and the arts. Certain of
the qualities and talents which they
contribute to the common stock are
of great worth and promise. But
some of them there are spiritually
and actually kith and kin of the Boil
shevik, who have shown themselves
unworthy Of the trust of their fel-
ingrates, disturbers. ig-
norart of or disloyal to the spirit
of america, abusers of her hospi-
tality.
Some there are who have heen
blinded by the glare of liberty as a
man is blinded who after long con-
finement in darkness comes sudden
ly into the strong sunlight. Blinded
they dare to aspire to force their
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SHOULD SPEAK OUT.

But it is not enough for us Amer
leans of German descent to do our
duty by our country and our fellow
citizens. however, fully and unreserv-
edly, if we do SO in resigned and op-
pressed silence. ! believe we should
speak out. We should give voice to
our inhexible loyalty and to our
deep conviction of the righteousness
of Americas cause.
1t is hard, indeed, for us to ar
raign publicly the country from
which we sprang and to turn
against our own kith and kin, how
ever deep our detestation Of their
wrongdoing under the spiritual and
physical sway of the Prussian cast
and however sincere our allegiance
to America. 1t will easily be under
stood by all fair-minded men that
right thinking persons will shrink
from SO speaking and acting as to
lay themselves open to the accusa-
tion of being time servers or popu-
larity seekers, and to expose their
motives to misconstructiOn.
These scruples are honorable, and
they are felt by many whose patri-
otic loyalty and devotion are beyond
all question. But, to my thinking
they are stamped out by the iron
tread of the times.
| believe that we should speak
out, we Americans OF German birth,
because we have been misrepre-
sented to oar fellow-citizens and to
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
GREETED "THE DAY."

And with rejoicing they greeted
"the day." 1t was to bring them, as
one German in an important position
here expressed it to me, in August,
1914, "a merry war and victory be-
fore the year is out"
1t is probably true that the Rus
sian Pan-Slavist had planned war
sooner or later, just as the Pan
Germans did. War might perhaps
have come then or at some other
time, even if the Prussian rulers had
not precipitated it. But the fact re-
mains that it was the imperial Ger
man government which did declare
war. For having anticipated that
perhaps" and resolved It according
to their own plans and wishes, for
that, their initial crime, and for those
which followed. the rulers of the
German people will have to answer
before the JUDGMENT stool of God
and history. Upon them rests the
blood-guilt for this dreadful catas-
trophe which has befallen the world.
A few days ago read a poem ad-
dressed to Germany. of which these
lines have remained in my memory:
"Oh, land of now, oh. land of then,
Dear God. the dreams, the dreams of
men!
Enslaved. immersed in greed and
hate,
Where are the things which made
you great?"
Gentlemen, the things which made
Germany great are not dead, and the
The Washington times., 1918-01-14

terest above patriotism and who in
ignorant fanaticism would sub
stitute for the tyranny of autocracy
the still more intolerable tyranny Of
mob-rule, as for the time being they
have done in Russia.
If it were not for the disablement
of Russia, the battle against autoc-
racy would have been won by now.
As so often before, liberty has been
wounded in the house of its friends.
Liberty in the wild and freakish
hands of fanatics has once more, as
frequently in the past, proved the
effective helpmate of autocracy and
the twin-brother of tyranny. Out
caring the czar its votaries are fill:
ing the prisons with their political
opponents, and are maintaining
their self-constituted rule by the
force of bayonets.
The deadliest foe of democracy is
not autocracy but liberty ftenzied.
The mob, because of its ignorance
and measureless restraint, is always
and everywhere destructive when in
power. You have an example before
your eyes in the whitening, disinte-
grating and blood-stained Ineffective
ness of liberty gone mad in Russia.
The despot, on the other hand, is
usually constructive and generally
efficient. because, if merely for his
own selfish ends, he must guard the
material interests, at least, of those
OH whom he imposes his rulership so
at-they may wear their chains con-
tentedly-
The Washington times., 1918-01-14
CANNOT HATE ALL

America is incapable Of hating
an entire people, but we do hate, we
are fighting and we shall fight with
every ounce of our might, the spirit
which has power over the people of
Germany, and which, if it were to
prevail-as, under God, it never will
would destroy liberty, justice, and
democracy. 1t was not the people of
Great Britain which America fought
in the War Of the Revolution, but the
spirit and the ruling caste which then
held sway over them. America
fought then for an ideal and for lib
erty and independence, and sacrificed
blood and treasure and suffered and
endured and won. And so it will be
now.
The spirit of Prussianism and the
spirit of Americanism cannot live in
the same world. One or the other
must conquer. In the mad pride of
its contempt for democracy, Prus-
sianism has thrown down the
gauntlet to US. We have taken up
the challenge and now stand arrav-
ed by the side Of the other freedom
loving nations of the world, giving
our fresh strength and our bound
less resources to them who, heroic
ally striving, have borne the heat
and burden Of dreadfully long and
exhausting struggle, yet stand un-
wearied, erect and resolute. The
enemy is of formidable strength.
But even if he were far stronger
than he is, even if we did not have
the men and the means which are
ours, even if our comrades-in-arms
had not demonstrated their superb
and indomitable prowess, still must
our cause prevail-for there is fight
ing with US a force which has ever
proved itself stronger than any other
power on earth, and again and again
has triumphed over overwhelming
odds. That force, God-inspired,
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Fnancie of the Country

world cannot afford to allow them
to die. They belong to the imper-
ishable assets Of the human race.
They have passed, for the time be-
ing, alas, out of the keeping Of the
mass Of the German people, whose
immortal inheritance they were.
They are now in the keeping Of
that minority, not, perhaps, very
great as yet, but growing steadily,
of men in Germany itself from whose
eyes the scales have begun to fall.
They are in the keeping Of all the
nations who appreciate and cherish
and are determined to maintain those
great and high things which the civ
ilized world has attained through the
toll, sacrifice and suffering Of its
best in the course Of many centuries.
And, above all they are in the keep
ing of the fifteen or twenty millions
of Americans of German descent.
As that great American of Ger
man birth, Carl SchurZ, and many
other brave and high-minded Ger
mans-my own father, am proud to
say, among them-in 1S4S stood in
arms against Prussian oppression for
liberal ideas and right and truth
and freedom, so do we stand now. In
fighting for the cause Of America as
loyal Americans, we are fighting at
the same time for the deliverance Of
the country Of our birth from those
unrighteous powers which hold it en-
thralled and feed upon its soul.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14

to cope with the problem Of unem-
Payment and to meet the dread ad-
vent Of sickness, incapacity and old
age in the case of those whose means
do not permit them to provide for a
rainy day. We must give heed to
the problem Of obtaining fair and
fitting compensation for the profess
sional man, the worker in every ,oc-
cupation whose life, too often, is op-
pressed by the preoccupation of how
to find the wherewithal to provide
for himself and his family.
The Washington times., 1918-01-14

We have Molle In stock
and will fill all orders-the
manufacturers agreeing on
first orders to take back
any unsOld cartons within
90 day period. We have
seen Molle advertising cam
paign and contracts with
Washington papers for ad-
Vertising 20 extend over
three months. We have
also read letters from drug
Eists In other cities stating
that sales Of Molle were
large and repeats very sat
isfaCtOry. The Washington
Wholesale Drug EXeh anEe.