Today -100: September 9, 1918: I would much rather be a man in jail than a coward outside of it

Fanya Kaplan, who shot Lenin, is executed.

NYT Index Typo of the Day:

And boy, if you don’t have “delight in war” any more, what can you have delight in?

The NYT complains that German newspapers exaggerate the number of Germans who are lynched in the US.

Police raid the Socialist State Convention in Detroit, ostensibly looking for draft evaders. Addressing the convention, presumably before the raid, Eugene Debs says of his forthcoming trial, “I would much rather be a man in jail than a coward outside of it,” adding “but being a man outside of jail would be even better, ammiright?”

Pennsylvania anthracite coal miners meet and agree to respond to the fuel administrator’s refusal to increase their wages with a general strike. They demand to be drafted, since they can’t support their families through mining.

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