1/28/2019 0 Comments Quote 32Victor L. Berger and other socialists under indictment for violation of the Espionage Act, may not be permitted to hold a meeting planned for tomorrow to discuss the subject: "Why We Are Under Indictment." The executive committee of the Chicago Branch of the National Security League met today to take steps to prevent the meeting on grounds of its being "a gathering of disloyalists." -from the article Berger May Be Denied Privilege of Massmeeting printed in The Oklahoma City Times (April 6, 1918)
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1/28/2019 0 Comments Quote 31We have many men who hold high offices of trust who are nothing more or less than pro-Germans or spies in the pay of Germany. -from the book First Call by Arthur Guy Empey (1918)
1/26/2019 0 Comments Quote 30Acts or utterances of any kind tending to hinder or impair the efficient prosecution of the war are made unlawful by the sedition bill prepared for Governor Neville and the state council of defense, which was introduced in the lower branch of the legislature Tuesday afternoon as house ro'l [sic] No. 5. - from the article Sedition Bill Carries a Punch printed in, The Lincoln Star (March 27, 1918)
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