The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-11
GIVES y)VICE
s The MIkADo
vIee Berger, Socialist, Tells How
the Ruler Of Japan Should Act
in Order to Keep
AfIoat.
TT is NOT ANARCHY
Berger Says it is the Old Story Of
Jumping on the Socialists
When They First
Appear.

CHICAGO, Dec. loft the Japa-
nese government tries to suppress
peaceable evolution some day they
will get bloody revolution
That was the militant comment
here tonight of Victor Berger, social
ist congressman-elect from Milwau-
kee, on the news from Toxic that 26
Japanese socialists there have been
recommended for death after a star
chamber examination of the charge
that they had plotted against the
life of the Mikado.'
"The charge that these men and
women were anarchists and plotted
against the emperor is the same sub
terfuge that is always resorted to by
governments that want to justify the
murder of social reformers who pro-
pound the doctrines of humaness as
opposed to war and absolutism," said
Berger He added: Il do not know
any of these unfortunates., Presump-
lively the Japanese government,
which denies the defendants the
right of counsel, is guilty of conspir-
ing against their lives. as, presumpt-
lively the man is thief who fees
when nobody pursues. If these prts-
oners conspired against the emperor,
| why did the government wish to con-
ceal their gull. by denying them prop
l er trial?
THE old dodge ef crying anarchy
\ won't deceive any thinking person
+ 1t is always used in the first stages
of suppression of the socialist move.
nlent everywhere, particularly in
semi-barbaric countries like Russia
and Japan. Any man whose views
differ from the established order Is
an anarchist If Japan executes
4 these political offenders without a
/ Just trial, it's guilt will proclaim to
the world that the emperor has not
jumped forward in the procession oi
civilization, and the adoption of that
which is still barbaric with the eau
casion men of war and modern arlna
nent
Capitalism has taken root in ia
I pan with all the evils OF the system
educators and humanitarians, and
their merciless persecution. The
final outcome in every country will
be the same: Social reorganization
minus emperors. capitalists and 9th
er powerful parasites who live OF
labor workers and reward thei
slaves with cruelty.
"If the japanese government vii
not permit the organization Of Law
abiding industrial classes and sanctio,
labor combinations. japan will sool
TEEN with plots and plotters. II
will not allow the formation of
labor party in civilized form, the pee
pie will naturally conspire to obtail
their rights and meet the oppression
of the government with resistance
I 1t is up to the government to choos
{ between open efforts OF the industria
classes to better their condition an
secret plots which must necessaril
: involve violence and all It's conse
quent evils.
Should Japan persist in this FRI
tricidal Staying of the subjects
should protect. the world will stan
aghast and that country will lose th
right to be listed among the civilze
:. countries of the world.
Berger and Morris Hill, the latte
4 a committeeman from New York VIII
= are delegates 20 the internationi
conference, We're instructed tonigf
? to begin at once world pro.e'
J. against the execution of the Japanes
socialists. They will request
I wire immediate cooperation Of a
delegates, the conference to get e
> pressions of protestation from Il
J. socialists of every country. aggreg
ting 10000, 000 against the action
2 the Mikado's government.