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To .President Harding: • /••• •If Eugene Debs, imprisoned for. disloyalty, may go free, pardoned by the government, .why should not the hundreds and thousands, perhaps, of soldiers who are in prison today for violations of military Jaw, also be freed? They, at least, were loyal enough'to offer themselves as soldiers of their, country. Why should Debs go free and those remain In prison?:*«i. A petition,-to th1a effect, is non* being signed by Hutchinson soldiers of the 'World War, to le sent to the president of the United States The' petition, it is proposed..vm be sent not only direct, to the president, but to Kansas mombars of Congress. •.Tho freeing of Eugene Debs from prison by the president should bo M* lowBd gqw by the release of all soldiers who.are serving sentence for crimes aga.inBt.tbe government, or’die*| obedience of military, law during, the i war, In the opinion of ex-servke men in Hutehiusom ; * ’ ; •••; ;; ■■■.?.■ Would Let AH Go. ’. •:If Euffoue Debs is to be allowed to go free, how about the many soldiers who are- serving tormsTin prison for so mo trivial offenses against military : law?’*. demanded . Don Shaffer, • city prosecuting attorney, .. and late- adjutant'of the American Lesion post, i “There-nr© men who volunteered as i soldiers, to defend their flag, who got-|Snto trouble by some violation of .military rules, and are now In prison. Cor* tainiy they were more loyal to the glt;yy-| ernment than ISugeno Debs/’ /. ■. Why. Not-the Others? • .The American Legion national convention by unanimous vu.te protested against Eugene Debs being pardoned, because they felt he was a traitor to our government/*, said Chester. Ittmt-: ledgo, who was present at the. national’ convention when the action was taken* “If ibe. . president. feels , that ■: Debs should be freed, now. that the: war Is over, how about., the many-soldiers f wh o ai-e send tig prison terms because J of being- A-W. O.L., or striking.. an officer, or. some other violatjpn .61 tnilllary law?**. ’ :*v •One 35th division man tohV ot a apl* -dier In Ills division who had-been sent up to military prison, lor a long tenr, of years because ho became drunk one night, went off to Oklahoma City on n spree, and was there.' arrested • on-a charge of desertion.. That man; be
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Hutchinson News
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Tue, Dec 27, 1921
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