The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
DEBS STILL RABID
SPEAKS ANARCHY
PRISON SENTENCE DID LITTLE
TO CHANGE ATTITUDE OF
SOCIALIST LEADER,

Chicago.-Eugene V. Debs, leader Of
the socialist party, made his first pub
lie speech since leaving Atlanta peni-
tentiary, here recently and was given
an ovation that delayed the start Of
his address for more than an hour.
Hundreds stood outside the hall for
hours after fire guards had limited
the audience to 1000 people.
Jean Longuet, French socialist in
whose honor the meeting was held,
was overshadowed by the denonstra-
tion accorded Debs.
81 am just recovering from ,he eff
fects of speech I made almost four
years ago." Debs told the audience.
"1t was record-making speech. 1
began it at Canton, Ohio, and finished
it at Atlanta"
"But there is nothing to regret. I
opposed the war and I still oppose
war. l would not go to war at the
command Of any capitalistic country
on the face of the earth. l would
have saved the lives of $4,000 Ameri-
/ boys who perished on the battlefields
of France to create 10000 new mill
lionaires in this country. I spoke at
Canton from a deep sense of con-
viction and after all, ten years is a
very modest sentence for having an
opinion Of your own in the United
States"
Ignoring the right Of the socialist
party leaders against the l. w. w.,
communism and the Russian soviet
government, Debs declaring himself a
citizen of the world, embraced all
three in the ranks of "the defenders
of free speech"
"Out of the war;" he said, zone
great good came, quite unexpected to
the ruling classes Of the world. That
was the soviet republic"
He praised the 10 communists, in
cluding William Bross Lloyd, whose
conviction under the Illinois anti-syn-
dicalism law, was upheld few days
ago. He attacked government by in
junction" and said that if he had been
in Chicago when the recent rail strike
injunction was issued, he would have
asserted my manhood by defying it
and the corporation lawyer-judge that
issued it,"
Jean Longuet devoted most of his
address to an attack on Georges
Clemenceau and the peace treaty Of
Versailles. Clemenceau, he declared
''no more represents France than Mr.
schwab or Mr.. Pierpont Morgan rep
h resents the spirit of America"
: The fundamental cause of the pres.
e ent situation in Europe, he said, is
!. the peace made in 1919 and this was
: natural result of the continuation of
| the war until that time.
: "The prolongation of the war;" Mr..
= Longuet said, "and the refusal of the
t governing classes to try and reach any
peace by negotiation, their obstinate
t policy of the knockout blow system,
their refusal to accept, more especially
during the year 1917, the various pro-
posals trying to meet the possibilities
7 of peace, have naturally led Europe to
a mad nationalism dominated especi-
II ally the victorious nations Of Europe
and even in America the war psychol-
ogy reached such degree that those
statesmen of yours who won a peace
n quite different from the various
r treaties of the past, and more es
pecally Mr.. Wilson. with his IA
points, found himself absolutely pow
IL erless against the intrigue of th'
French, Italian and British imperial
II ISM"