The Espionage Act Interpreted.

Comments on the case of Jacob Abrams et al. vs. the U.S. under the Espionage Act of Congress. Conviction of the five defendants for conspiring to violate provisions of the law; Articles attached to the indictment; Intention of the defendants to prevent injury to the Russian cause; Charges of conspiracy pending the war with Germany to publish abusive language about the form of the U.S. government; Comment regarding President Woodrow Wilson's cowardly silence about the intervention in Russia; Intention of the charges to provoke resistance to the U.S. in its war with Germany; Prison sentence imposed to the defendants for publishing the two leaflets.