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 world." It seems to me that when you write an article and definitely state that your intention is to induce the Government to put people in jail in a certain way, you ought to be assumed, if there is nothing to prove the contrary, to have had that intent in your mind when you wrote the article—especially when it is one little idealistic and almost religious sentiment expressed in the midst of fifteen entire pages, in which there is nothing else on the subject.

That is all that he could find then, to prove that I was engaged in this intrigue, with this malicious intent, during the period after the passage of the Espionage Law.

And what has he got on Art Young? Art Young who for forty years has been making the American people laugh, and making the American people feel good, and feel generous, and feel neighborly to each other, and love each other, and making them hate greed, and avarice, and evil, and all the forms of tyranny and oppression that straddle the backs of the common people everywhere; Art Young, who with Mark Twain, and Finley Peter Dunn, and Artemus Ward, is surely one of the four or five leading humorists that this country has produced; Art Young, who is loved by every artist as well as by every literary man in New York City, and almost all over the country, and who will be loved for hundreds of years after he dies because of his cartoons which have been selected from the magazines, from" Puck" and "Judge" and " Life," and published in books—what has he got on Art Young? Art Young was down in Washington and he heard these Congressmen talk, just the way I heard them talk, about the reasons we were in the war and what we were fighting for. And he heard ministers talk: about it, and he heard Roosevelt get up and say, "No, it is not a war of democracy," and he heard Root say, "No, we are fighting to defend our