Document B: Schenck Pamphlet (Modified)
Charles Schenck was a Socialist who in 1917-1918 printed and distributed
more than 15,000 anti-war pamphlets, including some to drafted American
men. The excerpt below comes from one of his pamphlets.
ASSERT YOUR RIGHTS
The Socialist Party says that any officers of the law entrusted with the
administration of conscription . . . violate the provisions of the United
States Constitution when they refuse to recognize your right to assert your
opposition to the draft. . . .
To draw this country into the horrors of the present war in Europe, to force
the youth of our land into the . . . bloody trenches of war-crazy nations,
would be a crime the magnitude of which defies description. . . .
No specious or plausible . . . pleas about a "war for democracy" can cloud
the issue. Democracy can not be shot into a nation. It must come
spontaneously and purely from within.
To advocate the persecution of other peoples through the fighting of a war
is an insult to every good and wholesome American tradition.
You are responsible. You must do your share to maintain, support, and
uphold the rights of the people of this country.
In this world crisis where do you stand? Are you with the forces of liberty
and light or war and darkness?
Source: “Assert Your Rights,” Charles Schenck, 1917-1918.
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