Eugene Debs Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against WWI, 100 Years Ago This Week
This is more about Woodrow Wilson, than Debs.  Wilson, like many progressives, thought that you should never let things like the constitution get in the way of doing "good".<p>His version of "good" was that he was a massive racist.  Among other things, he resegregated the federal government, ending the careers of many who were not white.<p>He also did not like freedom of speech or the press.  He prevented magazines and newspapers he disagreed with from going through the mail.  Nice piece of work.