Note 157 — Chapter II · OPPOSITION TO THE WAR WITH GERMANY

These figures include only sentences stated in Rep. Atty. Gen., 1919, Exh. 21, and in the reported cases, listed in Appendix II, except the I.W.W. case (U. S. v. Haywood), which is omitted because I do not know how far the sentences were imposed because of counts under the old conspiracy statutes. There are, however, many unreported cases with long sentences, e.g., 26 at Sacramento for ten years. No omission is made for reversals and commutations, because they do not lessen the responsibility of the district court judges, whose work is at this point under review. Indeed, there could be no more biting comment on the way these judges administered the Act than the enormous reductions in scores of sentences recommended by the Department of Justice. See Appendix II for instances.