I listened to all that was said in this court in support and
justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains
unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic
enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles
and with the spirit of free institutions.... I am opposing a
social order in which it is possible for one man who does
absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of
hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and
women who work all the days of their lives secure barely
enough for a wretched existence.
-Eugene V. Debs, statement to the court, 1919
The ideas expressed in the statement most nearly represent the ideology of
what political party in the early 20th century?
OA. The Republican Party
OB. The Democratic Party
OC. The Socialist Party
OD. The Bull Moose Party