POLITICAL PRISONERS.
STJLLL IN AMERICAN GAOLS.
' SENATOR BORAH DEMANDS i ' amnesty. 1 (ReceiAed Monday, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 11. Senator Borali, in a stirring speech asking amnesty for political prisoners, declared that the United States was the only country m the Avorld still holding incarcerated men Avhose only ofUence was to §peak )£ Avrite against the United States’ participation in the war. He* pointed out that the Espionage Act had been long repealed, but 5 men were still in Federal prisons for violating it, nt>t by acts of A’ioleuce, but expressions of dissension. The speaker also attacked the law Avhicli at any time prevented the freedom of speech ir criticism of the Government. •
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Shannon News, 13 March 1923, Page 4
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113POLITICAL PRISONERS. Shannon News, 13 March 1923, Page 4
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