The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-03-15
CONGRESSMAN DIES
OF LONE STAR STATE
USES BRANDING iron
PUTS MARK OF HIS OPINION ON
THREE PROMINENT
MEN.
BRYAN, ROOSEVELT and BERGER
Grouped as the Foremost Enemies OF
Free Government-Wisco Man
an Object OF Particular Wrath-AlI
Tainted With Socialism.

President Roosevelt, w. y. biJon oho
lepreeuntat.ye Victor berger, social
jst. were branded in a speech in the
house today by Representative Dies,
of Texas, democrat, as being among
the foremost enemies of free govern
:Dent in America today" Mr.. Dies
insisted that both Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Bryan were socialists and ne
coupled their names with those OF
Mr.. Berger and the Mcnamara broth
ers.
Berger is over there" said MI.
Dies, pointing dramatically in the di'
rection of the house office building,
where the Lawrence, Mass, strike in
ouiry was proceeding, "preening him
self as the great friend of labor 1t
is high time that the country should
know just what Mr.. Berger stands
for. am net now appealing to any
district or ally party, but to my col
leagues here to recognize the perils
OF socialism,
The legislative activities of the
Wisconsin socialist member then
were reviewed by Mr.. Dies. These
ne said, among other things, included
abolition of the veto power of the
president and both the supreme court
and the senate, and two measures
which, Mr.. Dies charged, were in
tended to save from the clutches Of
the law the Mcnamara brothers anC
others who afterwards might fine
themselves similarly in the tolls Of
the law.
space forbids me to describe al
the Berger bills" said Mr.. Dies, "bu
as ILLUSTRATING the socialistic interpre
tation of the doctrine of equal fights
to all, and special privileges to none
when applied to socialist in office
I call attention to house bill 1882
introduced by Mr.. Berger, June 8
1911. That measure, to use its owl
words, was a bill to provide an auto
mobile for official use of the commit
tee en- District of Columbia" | nee'
not say that Mr.. Berger was mem
iber of that committee at the time HI
introduced tho bill.
"Mr, Berger, l may say yields 20 n
man, living or dead, in his desire t.
) disrupt the constitution and destro
the liberties of the people under
representative democracy. In mis- dc
slres for re-enactment CT chaos, MI
Berger is as earnest, if not as vocii
erous. as the lion tanner who roar
from the peaks of Sycamore Hill
Contrasting Col. Roosevelt with MI
Bryan, the latter, said Mr.. Dies, oper
lily advocated socialist doctrines, Will
1.-The former president protested to b
lopposed to socialism.
Roosevelt seeks to walk in tn
path the Caesars trod," he said. MI
Bryan will be content with a Milo
new subscribers for his paper. Roos'
welt wants to emulate the bad exam
Ole of Diaz, of Mexico, and brea
down the constitutional barriers
presidential succession. Mr.. Brya
gives aid and encouragement to M
: Roosevelt, as against the democrat
: rarity, and for the. principles of demo
racy, as written in the constitutiQ
he offers no word of encouragement
Mr.. Dies charged that Mr.. Brya
endorsed Gel. Roosevelt's poiicl'
while CONCERNING Speaker Ciar
Gov. Harmon, of Ohio, and Represe
,atiye Underwood, majority leader
/ the house