"Speech Text Analysis: 'the issue' by Eugene V. Debs".

Thesis statement

Eugene Debs was one of the most intriguing numbers in American History. He was a amalgamation worker who increased through the ranks to become a amalgamation leader. I will discuss Debs' Speech called “the issue”.

Introduction

Eugene V. Debs, a well known socialist, provided a public talk to an assembly of people in Canton, Ohio. The talk was about the growth of socialism and contained statements which were proposed to interfere with employing and advocated insubordination, disloyalty, and mutiny in the equipped forces. Debs was arrested and ascribed with violating the Espionage Act of 1917. At issue was if the joined States contravened the right of freedom of talk granted to Debs in the First Amendment of the joined States Constitution.

Main body

The whole time violence occurred Debs pleaded with the strikers to stop, in a speech he said “I appeal to you to be men, orderly, and law-abiding. Our cause is just, the great public is with us, and we have nothing to fear.” But the violence continued across the country. On July 10 as the hit continued and session of violence erupted, Eugene Debs and other ARU managers were jailed for conspiracy. Trains were going on the previously joined up lines the next day on July 11. Debs turned to Samuel Gompers, head of the AFL, for help in ending the hit as best he could. Gompers denied to help with a sympathy hit or talking to management.

After this rallies were held, but no one was listening anymore. The hit had passes away down and men who still had jobs with the trains went back to work, although all of the members of the ARU that worked for the trains were not retained. This failed hit would be the end of the American trains Union as Debs knew it. Debs and other leaders of the ARU were dispatched to prison in May 1895 for contempt of court. He would serve until November 1895, but this wouldn't be the last time he went to jail.

This election showed him that the Populist movement could not change anything; he wrote “The result of the November election has convinced every intelligent wageworker that in politics, per se, there is no hope of emancipation from the degrading curse of wage slavery (Radosh 1971, 16).” He would say “The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. Iam for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been swore with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no correct basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society- we are on the eve of universal change.” He began to tour the country giving lectures on the benefits of socialism. He liked the working masses to join under a single party, a party dedicated to empowering them through public ownership of commerce and property. A more radical idea of Debs' socialism involved colonizing a territory out west which would continue to grow and eventually overtake the capitalist ...