New-York tribune., 1911-01-22
Nevertheless Schemes for Future Include Model Homes for
Workngmen, a s2O,OooOOO Civic Centre, House
wife Cops" and Municipal Ice Plant

your Anne .lCan constitution ~ HV
goOd tear it up. throw it into the ocean
ard write a new one" a sentiment which
was loudly applauded by Berger. seidel
and other soclal.tic leaders For utter
ances similar to this there have been
threats i'm Milwaukee Of cOntesting Ber-
gers righ, To seat I'm Congress, IA
Icing At heart a traitor to the present
form Of American government.
lust before the election, also. Mayor
seidel told the new Boys Republic at
the Young Mems Christian Association
that the United States government was
not q ft form Of government for them
10 COPY. and urged them 10 have reVo-
luton i'm their republic. saying that the
Emitted states needed To purge itself Of
present evils.
The SLOGAN Of another campaign, IN
which Berger advocated bullets II tho
ballot failed, faced Berger and his CO.
horts AT every step during the fall cam
raign. He was kept busy answering
charges that his party was one OF revo-
/ luton. and not peaceful revolution Az
/ that. but the party won, just the same
I In Justice To the Socialists il must be
| admitted that the advertisements or tho
| Social-Democratic party were the only
political ones TO be accepted by any
Milwaukee daily newspapers during that
campaign without the cash I'm advance.
| Even the Republican State Central
/ Committee was forced To accompany
"copy" for its advertisements with
checks. or the advertising would be re-
iccted. but a telephone order from Ber-
ger was sufficient TO place an adver-
tisement in any newspaper In the city,
even though every newspaper was edl-
, torialIv opposed to the Socialists.
Leading MilwaulIeeans won't talk for
,ublication on socialism. There is too
much at stake. owing to the fact that
the Socialists so absolutely dominate al
fairs as to be able to swing great press
ure i'm a business way against the per-
son who openly opposes them.
Berger is union man himself. being
ono of the nine members of the Mil
vaukee Newswriters' Union. AS a dele
ga te from this union he has seat In
the Federated Trades Council and he
works at his trade as a writer Of signed
editorials in the party's weekly paper
which Is within a year TO become
daily, if reports be true.
Berger went to the late convention of
the American Federation of Labor as a
delegate. and repeated his efforts Of tho
last ten years to cause the defeat o'
Samuel Gompers, whom he likes person
ally. but whom he opposes because
,Gompers believes i'm the old parties and
not in socialism.
When at st. Louis Berger was good
news source for the st. Louis newspaper
men, and in many respects was the cen
ire of the convention. When he cam"
home the other day, however, ne had
many freak yarns to deny. one was
that his wife intended to organize a
, housewives union. Another was tha'
he had declared the only way really L"
enjoy a piece Of pie was To eat II from
the fingers. (which We're made befor"
forks" 4 third related TO his alleged
habit Of spending his time during con-
yersation by being his own manicurist.
Berger is a man Of the world, polished
though fiery, and i'm many ways the op-
posite of the Mayor, Emil Seidel, who ~
a fanatic on socialist lines, and whose
language is that of the rampant an
archist, though personally he is a low
able, mild hammered man, who showed
his greatest talent according to local
. newspapers, in picking newspaper re-
porter for his private secretary
In the plans for Milwaukee's better
ment it is difficult to say where Bergers
work begins and Seidels ends. Both are
working together. and Berger now an
alderman -at-large, is recognized as the
spokesman Of the Mayor in all things
All legislation proposed by the socialistio
alderman is, as intimated, sanctioned
first by the Social-Democratic central
. committee, in which Berger and Seidei
are the ruling spirits.