Allied countries, thinking that the treacherous and bloody role played by your governments in Russia today should make every honest citizen of those governments blush with shame and shudder with indignation, we ask of you, we implore you, we demand of you, in the name of justice and human liberty, in the name of the great Russian revolution, and in the name of human liberty, common humanity:

Don't remain silent while your governments are stifling revolutionary Russia. Exert all your efforts. Do all in your power to get them to recall their troops from our soil, so that we may be left alone to work out our own destiny without any foreign interference.

This is your sacred right, hallowed by the enormous sacrifices our people have offered upon the altar of human liberty, and no nation or group of nations should dare violate that right.

WAKE UP AMERICANS! 1

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WAKE UP AMERICANS! Your institutions are in danger. Political freedom is being destroyed by those who at any cost, even to the destruction of the republic and its civil liberties, would maintain themselves in political and economic power. long as any man or woman can be imprisoned for "unorthodox political opinions, you yourselves are not safe-your turn may come next. Tomorrow you may think for yourselves, and thereby be branded criminal. Your only hope of peaceable progress and change lies in the freest discussion of public problems.

Wake up! American autocrats are trying to introduce Russian Czarist conditions. Already we see the suppression of civil liberties and the spectacle of the leaders of the political opposition jailed at the whim of their opponents, the administration. Already it is proposed to use the Philippines as an American Siberia for political "undesirables." Already it is proposed to create a huge professional standing army of half a million men backed by a conscript system of two million more in training and in peace time and war time carrying out the worst principles of the Prussian system which you sought to destroy. Already we are infested by a network of secret police, already "Black Hundreds " of the reactionaries are mobilizing. There is danger here, Russian conditions will make necessary Russian 1 Eye Opener, December 1, 1919.

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methods. preserve American conditions at any cost if you ald progress by means of orderly political and economic means. Protest against the imprisonment of men for their political or gious or economic opinions. Protest against the suppression of civil liberties. Nowhere else in the world, save in reacnary Japan, is there such vindictive and relentless punishment. of political offenders. Shall we travel in this company? While a single one of these men and women is in jail all claims of teracy are a hollow pretense. Wake up, Americans and lem your land from the shame that has fallen upon it. Join a he demand now voiced by millions:

"Mr. President! - Let all political prisoners go! Let them go now! The war is over and aggression against civil freedom that might be tolerated in war times are impossible now. Get us back into the company of civilized nations. England, Germany, Italy, Austria, France, Canada are all releasing their war time political victims. When will we do likewise? We, the American people command you, Mr. President, let our people go!"

Send this message to the president over your signature. Send * to your congressman and senator, to your newspaper, your r union, your church, your club. Pass this paper along to yr friends. Help in the good work.

The existence of a single political prisoner in this country u'd make every real American bow his head in shame.

LET OUR PEOPLE GO!

Are you wearing an amnesty button?

Get a pocket full of them and stick them on every one you meet. They are five cents each, $1.50 a hundred and $12.50 a

and.

Have your branch or

local put in a supply of a few hundred, r a thousand or two. You will make a profit for the branch, d you will aid in the drive to LET OUR PEOPLE GO! Send in your orders at once to Otto Branstetter, 220 South Ashland, Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.

Surly after the indictment by a Federal Grand Jury of Victor Berger, Germer, Engdahl, Kruse and Tucker for a violaof the Espionage Act, on which indictment they were all quently convicted, the following comments appeared:'

F Opener, March 16, 1915

SOCIALIST PARTY HAS BEEN INDICTED; WHOLE SOCIALIST PARTY MUST RESPOND

By MORRIS HILLQUIT.

Member Socialist Party National Executive Committee. The indictment against Berger, Germer, Engdahl, Kruse and Tucker is, in effect, an indictment against the Socialist Party. No other government of a country at war, not even Germany, has had the sad courage of resorting to criminal proceedings to suppress a political party in opposition. The Socialist opposition to war does not spring from a sentiment of hostility to the people of America but on the contrary is rooted in a deep feeling of loyalty and devotion to the masses and workers of this country and the world. The charge of espionage against our comrades is a legal absurdity and a political blunder and a moral monstrosity. The whole Socialist movement has been challenged. The whole Socialist movement must respond.

ENEMIES OF LIBERTY GUILTY; ALL LOVERS OF LIBERTY MUST BACK SOCIALIST PARTY

By JOHN M. WORK, Member Socialist Party National Executive Committee.

This latest outrage should cause all lovers of liberty to ally themselves with the Socialist Party. It is the only political organization that stands for democracy in the United States, Don't think for one minute that we are on the defensive. We are on the aggressive. Our enemies are guilty. We will put them on We are making a

trial at the polls.

We are making a political drive against the forces of autocracy in this country and we propose to continue until we put them out of business.

SOCIALISTS STRIVE ONLY TO MAINTAIN THE RIGHTS ESSENTIAL TO DEMOCRACY AND LABOR

By ALGERNON LEE, Socialist Member New York City Board of Aldermen.

Indictment of Berger, Germer, Engdahl, Tucker and Kruse will but solidify the Socialist movement and gain it new friends. We know any fair trial will prove they have broken no law but