Has the President ever heard of the expression, “To hell with habeas corpus; we’ll give ’em postmortems,” commended as “patriotic” by the capitalist press at the time it was made?
Does not the President know that it was his highly esteemed personal friend, Sherman Bell, who coined this phrase?
Is it “treasonable and murderous”?
Did the President condemn it?
Will he do so now?
Would he have done so if it had been Debs instead of Bell?
Why does he “conceive it to be his duty” to condemn Debs and not Bell?
Because Bell stands for capital and Debs for labor?
Has Debs ever said anything that, with reference to treason and murder, can be compared to this expression of his boon companion, Sherman Bell?
Will the President please answer?