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16 May, 1918 The U.S. Sedition Act
United States, Statutes at Large, Washington, D.C., 1918, Vol. XL, pp 553 ff.
A portion of the amendment to Section 3 of the Espionage Act of June 15, 1917.SECTION 3.
Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully make or convey false reports
or false statements with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the military
or naval forces of the United States, or to promote the success of its enemies, or shall
willfully make or convey false reports, or false statements, . . . or incite insubordination,
disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the United States,
or shall willfully obstruct . . . the recruiting or enlistment service of the United States,
or . . . shall willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous,
or abusive language about the form of government of the United States, or the Constitution
of the United States, or the military or naval forces of the United States . . . or shall
willfully display the flag of any foreign enemy, or shall willfully . . . urge, incite, or
advocate any curtailment of production . . . or advocate, teach, defend, or suggest the doing
of any of the acts or things in this section enumerated and whoever shall by word or act support
or favor the cause of any country with which the United States is at war or by word or act
oppose the cause of the United States therein, shall be punished by a fine of not more than
$10,000 or imprisonment for not more than twenty years, or
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