The Oklahoma Leader (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 25, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 13, 1919 Page: 2 of 4
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BERGER'S TESTIMONY IN FIGHT FOR SEAT
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frpt: wruld lArgalfy t't tnat ha-e
adt ty any fint: rr i rsf) e-r !!-7tt
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all? I ecesnen nf prefiteering?
Mr Berger- l'I')ta Mr Chairman te begirt with when I snitak ts! Mr Bergett Mr Ames Pinchot wits 94:lintel caentan of the
I ruling elale I do not just meart the presiidiiret and eerertese Iltd war fir'anciei cit-irn7riit'et' tY Pre-!:lenil 71' c'Ir'w TIs'Ai at t3-7e te4'n-
fresident and congreet juet ezteute the netts et nee eaetenet clave 1 ring a tree war He is a very atle ran and he is a wealthy man
twheKh is the ruling class And when 1 peak of the eanitalAt citee f'"''-'te'ti Ai!" having heed hea Pr)titien ler a whileelte wrote a letter
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vre4t 6a1 t Troney to Ciault Kereltin—at thatitime the leader ef the Derrecratic ma-
that is not Putt denoting a few pertorte having a
tut it meant the tyVern ll'it CaVaLtt tliflem (J1 a'hicih You ilr'! a I Inrity in the heuee—explaireng why he cnell ret heid thet position
raft whether you intenl to be a art er not It meaes the capita:1re l'n--:''r
civilization which followed the rriedeval eleilieatien et ft:Lida:jell airy! Yr Pedenterz Is it yoirr nereine to put the letter ie !be record?
MrBe7ger Yee
the lett w netinted e ancient civilization based upon chattel slavery as I have ! reel te
sketch in a few word5 at the beginning of the hearing - T ty very' few papere
he capiraliet That er as class—anl you rew cndstreeenl gentlemen saber I
When you pase legielatien in valgt e's! favorahle to the capitallet r"-len hel thne clif-rtint cia -ss as we tan': hea! sn) rh ct that—the
you convJ!1r-aeitaliet claei ignorel the tett e: entii7ely h fact I dri not remem-
tritem of tociety that fact drfrcs not at all signity that
ond with malice and forethought dr) the bidding el either Peckefeller fi'' having teen the letter printed in any ef the big dailies but I was
tet Morgan or Armour II such a thing were imputed tn you you t"A tilat it Inunl ite way ir!) The Congreesielal hecori Am !eight
would naturally resent it or if it could be plainly shown to you that "q'ti'i 'hiat r'1: Pcn'!firhitrg?
you could see that Rockefeller or Morgan or Armour iiiiiinttfl a ter - Yr Podrinleerg Yes I th:rile that is correct
fain act of legislation 1 am quite sure you would think twice aril rJr- fine Berger That letter was used by The Milwaekee Leader and
ether Socialist peublicatirins to ehow up profiteering ' The letter of Mr
Pibiy vote egoinet it but it is the psychology of eapitaliem— inherited
nehe was iteS
ond inoculated in the schools—and is cnnetantly fed te you thr Pi t wrtn in 017—in III however
ough' the he sent out a letter
press that makes you think and ae: in a certain capitadstie way eleng the same lines—supplementing his first message I have that
That does not meen--becautie the majority of people of our coun- i' here too M Itinchoes eecond letter was also discussed in the Social-
try still have that psychology— that the majority are neeessarily bad itt press—i e by as much as we have left of the Socialist prese--but
not at all If they were then this world would be hopeletni I ignored entirely by the capitalist paperS of the country
On the contrary we arc conviticera that a good many of the bent-I Mr COJerilli I want to offer not for its full text but I want to
fieleriete and even some of the tools of tin LaOtalitt tytkm are per- eller the Pinehot letter and the inclosure which was rlaced in this
eonolly good hearing htfore which points out the excess profits reported to the
We are confident that as soon as econetnic condition will cernnell government here by the companies controlled by 3:3 members of the
the disappearance of capitalism and subetitution of the secia!kt corn- Council cf National Defense It is too long to read There are 12
rrionweolth in int place they will rrobatily tie even more ueeful to the rag"' of if
new cooperative and humanitarian world than they are to the tom- ' Mr Berger Just put it in It is not very long it is printed in
petitive and vicious world today pica type
Mr Welty hi it riot a fact that labor hat beer just as loyal during The Chairman h that Itinetioes article?
this war SI any ether clatti? Mr Berger l'inehoes letter on profiteering
Mr Berger More loyal than any ether class as latior uneter- Mr Cochems May I aA is the committee individually familiar
stood it with the text of that letter and with the inclosure accompanying it?
WORUNG CLASS ARA KENS Mr Welty I know it carne to my desk I do not know whether
Mr Writy rin unit rtht thin! tlnt 1E n1-11 nst4 i real ell of it but I real a poetien of it
WORKNG CL1SS A WAKENS
Mr Welty Do you not think that labor generally understood
the reasons and the (antra of this war?
Mr Berger Labor generally I arn sorry to say has very little
haini UNittal to labor in a pohtiLal economic or sociological sense
In spite of that lett however labor is learning You see the average
workmen has had very limited orrortunities and has less leisure
to study history or cconom Our woikingmen nem theless are in
atinctively beginning to understand the world The progress of their
understanding is more slow in America that) in Logien& hence Ger-
many or Italy
Mr Welty The hiliorer has more opportunities here in this coun-
try than in any tther country in the world
Mr Berger What kin a or portunititl Mr Welty?
Mi Welty OrpattlAltiti for education
Mr Berger Well I deny that lhey course have a chance
to go to Nchool tor a little while and get the traditional training in the
three Ws Then the children go to work usually at the age of 14
Some of them that have particular tAlents have a better opportunity
le) get out of their class hi this country In other words in this coun-
try for a long time the average farmer hoy or the average boy work-
ing in a shop had a better chance to get out of his class—out of the
wortilaA class—and become a professional man or bryiness man
Mr Welty lhey had the some oppoitunity us anybody else
Mr Jrgr Not the same opportunities
Mr Welty 'they have a better opportunity than a man with
wealth have they not?
Mr Berger No sir they have not The man with wealth gets
a better education and he has a better t tart in life The son o
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herpont Mot pan had a better start in life than you had Mr U'elty
there Is no question about that
Mr Welty I do not bklicve thiL
Mr Berger I know it In fact he is at thr 10-31 of the world of
finance today and you are not The world is it his feet
iMr Welty That is all right hut education after all consists in
the habit of industry does it not? A man is not educated until he
has the habit of industry and thuy get that by being compelled to
work
OPPORTUNITIL'S NOT EQUAL
Mr Ilerger A man needs many things in order to get a real
education the habit of industry is only one of the many things In-
numerable boys and girls have the habit of industry and never grt
anywhere As a matter of fact no man ever became a millionaire
or even I member of the capitalist class simply because he was in-
dustrious No man or woman ever got out of the working class and
became a capitalist beenuso he or he worked long hours for wages
on the whole our workingmen were kept better satisfied in
America than the workingman in the old countries Our economic com
ditions were very laigcly colonial in the eighteenth and nineteenth cen-
turies There was plenty of elbow room in our country If a man
was not satisfied with the wages he got in Chicago he could under cer-
tain conditions go 11)0 mi1r3 north where land was cheap where one
could get land for VI an acre and be could become a more or less in
depende nt farmer esen a ft1 the homestead land of the government
at SI Zri w exhatitrd
To a cettain extent they! chanes are still existent in our country
RaMMEMMMINWO -- 1IMMOOMMMINMWM111EIMI
THE OKLAHOMA LEADER
' PERSECUTION OF TIIE LEADER
The Chairman You may proceed Mr Cochcms
Mr Cochems I want to introduce first a copy of The Milwaukee
Leader of Oct If) IIM and call attention to the article which I have
marked in brackets called "The Land of the Free and the Home of
the Brave"
The Chairman Do you want to have that marked as an exhibit?
Mr Cocherns Yes sir It gives a rhotograrh of a letter that has
been retuined of first-chLs classification from the postotTice illustrat
ing the results of what has occurred in the exclusion of The Leader's
The Chairman This is evidence to show that the mail of The
Milwaukee Leader was opened by the postoffice department?
Mr Cochems Yes sir iill of it NONtli get this clear Mr Dal-
linger: Thit means that all mail of first-cliist classification was seized
addressed to The Milwaukee Leader and that all mail of the first-class
it till seiied at thit time which led to a remarkable situation and
called for a dist usion of this fart in a current issue of The Milwaukee
Leader That I may address a letter to the crown prince in Holland
to Ludendorff in Bcrlin or to Hindenburg rind the postmaster will de-
liver it hut he will not deliver it to The Milwaukee Leader
Mr Welty What is the date of The Leader you have?
Mr Coclicms Oct la 1918
BERGER'S MAIL OPENED
The Chairman May I ask if Mr Berger' s personal mail is all
opened?
Mr Bervr Mr Chairman it was opened for a while None of
fly personal mail k opened today I may add that Dist Any Clyne
and Dist Atty riming during the Chicago trial erided themselves
when questioned upon the fact that they had not used anything they
had found in Mete opened letters They forgot to state that they
could not have tited anything that they found in my letters because
there was nothing in these letters that the prosecution could use
against me or anybody else Some of the letters I have brought here
just as they wrre kit —opened up and sealed again by the government —
just to show the house of representatives the way in which the espion-
tigers of the government handled the mail They are private letters
So much for my private letters The Milwatiker Leader and I in my
caeacity Of editor ore still under the ban and any letter that comes to
me even privately addressed to "Victor Berger of The Milwaukee
Leader" it returned
The Chairman You mean that they were returned to the sender?
Mr Berger Yrs sir I get it often in a roundabout way They
aend it to somebody cite in Milwaukee in anether letter with the letter
addrescd to tne on the inside I get soine hundreds of them in that
way hut most of them I never get of course
Mr Luhring he' that It re addretied imply "Victor Berger"
without a rc turn cord they open them and read them and send them
on to you?
Mr kertyr Yes they did o in the roott hut they do not open my
tenets ally more now
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The Poison in America' s Cup
of the r or ulation of the earth
As spoils of this war it has an-
nexed new territory Eve times
larger than the German empire
was in 1914 and subjugated new
populations tota:ing more people
than inhabit the German empire
has made France and Italy de-
pendent upon its favor for exist-
ence has made itself omnipotent
upon the seas without the free use
of which no nation can long live
n d has destroyed every obstacle
between itself and universal
dominion except our own United
States
SHUN THE PROPAGANDA
The notion that 100000000
Americans with four times Ger-
many's wealth with 15 times Ger-
many's territory with 5000 miles
of coast on two oceans with a bet-
ter fleet than Germany's and with
twice as many men fit to bear arms
as Germany could muster were
ever in the remotest danger of in-
vasion or subjugation by Germany
is one of those ridiculous things
which British propaganda very
cleverly imposed upon the credul-
ity of an excited people but which
no intelligent man in his sober
senses ever thought of harboring
There was probably never a
minute when the German govern-
ment considered making a war of
conquest upon us and there cer-
tainly never was a time if the Ger-
man govecnment had tried such a
desperately foolish exploit when
we could not have won the
struggle—and without crying for
help either But the bugaboo
with which British propaganda ex-
cited our apprehension of German
attack in an effort to win world
dominion is no bugaboo at all so
far as the ambition and purpose of
England to rule the world and the
possibility of an attack upon us by
her white black and yellow allies
is concerned
MENACE OF rRITAIN
United and harmonious I think
we could beat them all if they did
come agaicist us but if we per-
mit ourselves to be divided at
home by cunning propaganda
permit our naval defense to be
undermined by the same propa-
ganda permit mean and subservi-
ent sentiments to be propagated
by that propaganda permit that
propaganda to keep our trade out
of Ireland Russia Hungary Aus-
tria and Germany while British
financiers and merchants and man-
ufacturers exploit those territories
and those populations—why then
the time will come when Britain
'will find it to her interest to de-
'troy American sea power and
American prosperity as she has
successively destroyed Snnnish sea
power and prosperi:y Dutch sea
Mlinolmi
BY PH:LIP FRANCIS
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CITES REPORT ON Pik0FIILELING-
tri3t11 especially—it thiey ye in leazvi sith tl'e Ciaa yiu ta! ca:il
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vnrh grieraI s!aff in the eondurt of
:8(4 LTI:tt-f at l':e "e411 End every one of them if you the defensYe that culminated In Ver-
n' e Is a 11214 rrIart could see them in secret holding dun In the ptenographic report of the
I 111-:lft wrote a etter out an eipectant hand toward the "arret commitee" 11-)!Ing invfAtig4-
Gf e:'e Der"Ctatkt tr: a intArnational Bankers' Plunder- tions in the chamber of deputit
if rct hsli that position bril
The report charges that Th! dpfn-
- Friends and fellow Americans ro 7qts
r-h' l'i'er il 1-!"crir'f the only government which has li 3‘ h:h Ft 010 men 400000
of wnom were "thrown away' by
vut an expectant nana tuwai-u Me -secret committse" holTng investiga-
Tnternational Bankers' Plunder- tiCTIS in the chamber of deputies
brnd The rsport cliviriges that the dern
Frier13 and fellow Americans
the only government which has which cast 7qts 00 !nun 400000
of whom wsre "thrown away' by
steady aimed at world dominion 11! Fittics wh'ieh gct the
in modern times is the irnperlal!Ftch nothing was chiefly faulty in
and royal government of the Brit- jfrding the men and Eent them otit
ish empire- It has already sub- the trstiy-bss under a hail of fire
jugated half the habitable lands of
the earth and more than one-third: lig t ja
trio one o e 0 r corn whatever
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ofiel 9 nr104 i hail gs:-rn for 1-irts frnrn tre Fghttnng cif 1sten l---:'-'7-'2ttc C7f! 11:':117g !!ale no -eason to fear am-i
Brit--ih the wiles of that propaganda
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lor:1 raw and irAt-d on ha v-rrig it c-toked on the fi-e tits: stnre ttner --- - - r- rs-- --- 6JU ' V 71!-t prtpaganda Wel age and our own trm resistance to
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M r Ittrger Well a--pro-':g that is to: Tte w ar t-ro''it rifring in every Ei-op eon o niintry—cord:tion s tegan to cha-ge j-st done to us in the 'rant that we may so imitate the
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tht lafit three years trtat hurt )7:n Ifr to 'hie ca7ialst (la- s af-er r'-ey ' :- a -st -aor r-st frt sritrra3 b!7r) C11:f1 rct ca1 1s i:rTre v - -- -- -i--- war of persuadng us t) fight for wisdom and the valor and the corn
raid their ay at latger than rot iiirofi of ary prortiteer-rng olai-sI rrodorn pro:iota-ill-I tat S0 long as enttie 7ytar:ins 17e 1 if t- ere 4-7'11-VrEr:--sh wor'd sL:premacy British i mon sense of our fathers that we
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In any rrleIrr ec) of h-rnan hroory The -trertra a " only tarrie in 10 :!:t iti7a1:c:17atilckdrasy:to:la!t7ft:IsTer:otrt!i:s:ri:Lst 'et:optstral:)I jr-rr:::77:'-seArI"-::::-I:7:!2sr737:f:2:7:-11terrIT's"-:--77 tanodt i ostra-:3-- --:on Er:tish anntkation I will transmit to our children :he
at the wrind-up st territories and Brit:sh sub- same bright heritage of liberty
Mr Uell In f'ir4- ('V'tt t!t rritrn!1":rt ree'-rer! aro Mt O: 1-'1 I rti7::!i- a' 'air or a goot! otti Le 1 t Sf a zitt:!'at::t rran ErerI':'" 1:7:1! c:t f')::t'--e 1'-le'er-Ii:-'s-a'01 of rev rnilliors of un- and independence which was
1 a1 frrnan :t 0 Laift EnttyLn 171 cr rf:r tet:t: ::45 f---s c - e ---'-' e I
:4 ---e ng!Its iv: ling and hetnless peorles And handed down to us
tr) per ittnt of tho-d pro f's - A --
(-t: yot-rccan ra:Ae -:rczan common I A toast dear friends!
Mr ytztir ptti sIrr-r r z "it t!e zr-ir ----nt 1 st c--r--v tit cnder the rrnent s'tYeitr the ind-v!:2 cann:t a-::::::sht ntith-1:!‘:e::?111"le:fe7 :ati
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yr vi-rf 1-:! t :i i::-1 ::r cr-r-rtit5 ve t':-! simt 171 1 - 1 paganda is still and shame and confusion to fools
tht yrata mile d-r'cgt rri ahr 'oars vi larv r n a
that any o ther l
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d o tht hi:hrld The aii Y- f an:lort Po:ne I for a:: o ratter of 10:at class e-erer You see one' directed to-aard the diminutron of arid traitors at home aril enemies
E:'-ig!:l a ''rantlica:1 cur trade and friendship-wi':h oth-labroad who plot against' the inde-
Garthagt Greece and the prohteor:s of th:e rinddle agos thrown into' Mr foergor The cportue-ties are heitre for the ir!c!ual strer::!:en'!:'--7-
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r celt ty any one of the tiii AintTran contrrrs in the last two or rti-te
Y-- 7:eirry A'i-:iitely r tr- a- 9-e'--- e -e ceo:e of : s:cri and hatred amongst our citi-I the republic!
irrdia and ctter weak Peo:esl zens of di h!erent descents and to (THE END)
'tan cn after the taxes havt t-een pi 1 Yr- Vel'y I Mr Itergor P- I say -we otiaitt to have the entr-et-tienity ft- tne w p se
I yo see one doing ex-i-
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SLAUGHTER ON
GENERAL STAFF
denounred the commartd
hich "let itself bei whipped on every
side as Incapable of working its will
on the enemy living a day to day
pyptnef without a method or a plan
continuing to trust in a miracle
ountirig on it as on all the Ptrange
fa( tors of th-ir own effort guilty
f)t bad faith Of tack of Initiative and
During the hearings in the rham-
Ler one Pf the deputies Abel Ferry
apoi:trophized thP COMILittee as fol-
lows: Come nut and say when people hear
that you knew all this—come nut and
tell the 60 divisions the 600000 font
soldiers who went out to the trenrhes
or Verdun delcnseless for three
months tell the millions of men of
all the armies that were on the Ver-
Olin front that you knew all the time
nothing!"
LET'S GO TO MARS
Russian Engineer Says It's
Easy With Planes Driven
by "Jet" -
CHICAGO — "All aboard for
lia
Trips to the planets are a possi-
bilily Prof George De Dothezat
Russian aeronautical engineer told
the 'Western Society of Engineers
here
"Among aviation possibilities"
he said "is the invention of a ma-
chine propelled by a Jct which
would take no count of space
'I already have in mind such a
Plane" he continued "An ordi-
nary motor flown Ly a propellor
would be used until the air became
too rarifled then the motor would
be shut off and the plane flown by
a series f gas explosions that
would drive it on through space
The jet propulsion Ls not yet per-
fected but it's coming soon"
SOCIALIST LEADERS
HALT GENERAL STRIKE
IN CITIES OF ITALY
FlOME—In the chamber of deputies
on Wednesday Socialist Deputy Treyes
announced that the general union of
labor leaders of the Socialist party
n d the parladmentary Socialist faction
had decided that the general strike
demonstration should terminate every-
where at midnight on Wednesday
Railways were not affected but the
street car lines in Rome Genoa Turin
Milan Bologna and Florence were
tied up and retail business every-
where was largely euspended
Throughout northern Italy Social-
ists called a general strike in most of
the larger cities in protest against al-
leged failure of the government to
protect Socialist deputies in Rome
several of whom were attacked by
loyalist demonstrators
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