Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-04-05


produce outlets, bayonets, cannon" and other
munitions of war, the use of which would cause
the murder" of Germans and Russians.
Again, the spirit becomes more bitter as it
proceeds to declare that
america and her allies have betrayed the Workers.
of the Russian revolution that is the politics OF the mach
to Russia n, ~ tho horh.r;c intervention has to
know that not only the Russian Worker % fights I
Revolution"
This is not an attempt to bring about change
of administration by candid discussion, for no
matter what may have melted the outbreak on
the part of the defendant anarchists, the mani
fest purpose of such publication was to create
an attempt to defeat the war plans of the gov
ernment of the United States, by bringing upon
the country the paralysis of a general strike,
thereby arresting the production of munitions
and other things essential to the conduct OF the
war.
This purpose is emphasized in the next para
graph, which reads:
"Do let the government you with their wild
punishment in prisons hanging and shooting We mus must
not and will - not t,bt bt'y the splendid fighters OF Russia
After more of the same kind, the circular
concludes:
woe unto those who will be in the way of progress Let
1t is signed, "The Rebels
these articles, circulated in the greatest port of
our land, from which great numbers of soldiers
| were at the time taking ship daily, and IN which
great quantities of war supplies of every kind
were at the time being manufactured for trans
portati0n overseas, is not only the fair lnterpre-
tation of them, but that it is the meaning which
their authors consciously intended should be
conveyed by them to others is further shown by
the additional writings found in the meeting
place of the defendant group and on the person
of one of them. One of these circulars is headed:
"Revolutionists! Unite for Action!''
After Idenouncing the president as "Our
Kaiser" and the hypocrisy of the United States
and her allies, this article concludes:
Socialists Anarchists. Industrial Workers of the World
Socialists labor party and other revoluonary
ganizaton Unite for Action and let save the Workers
you lovers of that in order the
countries busy at home
Thus was again avowed the purpose to throw
the country into state of revolution If possible,
and to thereby frustrate the military program
| of the government.
The remaining article, after denouncing the
president for what is characterized as hostility
to the Russian revolution, continues:
we the toers of America who believe in real liberty
pae in % boo to
disturbance that the of America shall be
spare any for Russia"
1t concludes with the definite thread of arm
ed rebellion:
"H they will against the Russian people to
they shall tho ruin of the Russian revolution
| The majority opinion holds that these facts
justify the verdict of guilty in all four counts
and upholds the verdict and sentence.
| Justice Holmes and Brandeis hold that the
publication of these "silly'' leaflets could not
and did not injure the government in the prose-
| cution of the war and could not reasonably be
expected to do so and that therefore the defend
ants were not guilty under the indictments, and
| that even if they were, their sentences were
much too heavy for the offense. Judge Holmes
| says:
In this case EN- twenty have
eve the defendants had much right to publish the
has tf Sen f Of the
y wrong enough be squeezed from poor
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made suffer not for what the Indictment alleges but for
1 doubt that it held here but which,
has right to consider in dealing with the charges
| before the court
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