Note 162 — Chapter II · OPPOSITION TO THE WAR WITH GERMANY (continued 2)

United States v. Debs, Bull. Dept. Just., No. 155 (N. D. Oh., 1918). See especially the last paragraphs on page 8, and page 15: “In deciding what the defendant’s intention was, permit me to suggest to you these questions: Ought he not to have reasonably foreseen that the natural and probable consequences of such words and utterances would or might be to cause insubordination, etc.?”