, to stand by them, to go to jail or
to hell for them--they are writing their names in this crucial hour,
they are writing their names in fadeless letters in the history of
mankind. Those boys over yonder, those comrades of ours--and how I love
them--aye, they are our younger brothers, their names are seared in our
souls.

"I am proud of them. They are there for us and we are here for them.
Their lips, though temporarily mute, are more eloquent than ever before,
and their voices, though silent, are heard around the world.

"Are we opposed to Prussian militarism? Why, we have been fighting it
since the day the Socialistic movement was born and we are going to
continue to fight it today and until it is wiped from the face of the
earth.

"The other day they sent a woman to Wichita Penitentiary for ten years.
Just think of sentencing a woman to the penitentiary for talking. The
United States under the rule of the plutocrats is the only country which
would send a woman to the penitentiary for ten years for exercising the
right to free speech. If this be treason, let them make the most of it.
Let me review another bit of history. I have known this woman for ten
years. Personally I know her as if she were my own younger sister. She
is a woman of absolute integrity. She is a woman of courage. She is a
woman of unimpeachable loyalty to the Socialist movement. She went out
into Dakota and made her speech, followed by plain-clothes men in the
service of the government, intent upon encompassing her arrest,
prosecuted and convicted. She made a certain speech and that speech was
deliberately misrepresented for the purpose of securing her conviction.
The only testimony was that of a hired witness. And thirty farmers who
went to Bismarck to testify in her favor, the judge refused to allow to
testify. This would seem incredible to me if I had not some experience
of my own with a Federal Court. Who appoints the Federal Courts? The
people? Every solitary one of them holds his position through influence
and power of corporation capital. And when they go to the bench, they go
there not to serve the people, but to serve the interests who sent them.
The other day, by a vote of five to four, they declared the Child Labor
Law unconstitutional; a law secured after twenty years of education and
agitation by all kinds of people, and yet by a majority of one, the
Supreme Court, a body of corporation lawyers, with just one solitary
exception, wip