The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-22
SOCIALIST LEADER BELIEVES BRYAN IS
 SINCERE IN ACTION
Victor Berger Says It Was Eminently Proper for Him
 To Resign Position.

Victor Berger, former congressman from Milwaukee, son of Isaac and Julia Berger of 92 William street. this city, has given out an interview in which he asserts he thinks Bryan was perfectly sincere in resigning, and that he thinks it was eminently proper for Bryan to resign.
 Berger is well known in this city because of his affiliations here. Be- sides his parents, his sister, Mrs. Will liam German lives in Bridgeport. The interview, which was given in Phtla- delphia, follows:
 "I think MT. Bryan was perfectly sincere in resigning, and in light of the views he held believe it was e1ni- nently proper for him to resign.
 'It would have been in better taste, though, if he had not bid so openly for the German-Anerican vote. It looks too much like politics.'t
 MT Berger was asked if MT. Bryan would get the Standardization vote.
 'eHe will not,'' came the answer. There's too much grape juice about him, and the people of German blood like something a, bit different.
 ''Now I agree with MT. Bryan about whisky It is a poison and ought not to be for sale. But wine and beer. They are foods. Of course you can get sick by having too much of them, but you can eat too much steak, too"
 "Is Mr. Bryan a dead one politically now?'' MT, Berger was asked.
 Not on your lfe,'' he. said. NO one who can defeat the Democratic party at the next election if he pleases can be called dead one"
 Talking about the relations between this country and Germany, MT. Berger said he felt sure there would be no war
 ''It would be suicide for us,'' he said What could we do? And again it would be fractricide just as much so as if the allies should become our enemies.
 s~We must keep out of it, and I'm sure we will. Soon, maybe by Novem- ber, we will have a chance to act as arbiters. and President Wilson, if that comes to pass, will go down in history as one of the greatest men in the | world ussia needs only one more good knock. Italy needs one and both will be ready to quit. The Balkans cannot afford to come in.
 l of Germany ever gets to Calais it means the end of England If she l doesn't believe the war will end soon l The allies can't drive her back from i her present place.
 MT. Berger said he was not for the 1 kaiser in the war. He confidently ex- | poets the German people to oust the kaiser and the whole Junlxer admins tration after the war.
 But" he said, '1t makes me mad I to hear people talking about this be- ing a war of democracy. If Russia rep resents dem ocracy I want none of it If Russia wins-it is unthinkable- the world will be set back many 1 many years That country hasn't ! even reached the stage of capitalism yet, the stage we Socialists are trying to overcome. It is still semf-feudal.' MT. Berger said emphatical1y that he was not a peace at any price man.
 If we are attacked. this country
 my country, I would fight in a min ute We Socialists are for peace bu I believe you'll find that when ther, is any fighting to be done they al ways are the first to do it. But I dc not believe in fighting for foreigl | trade or more territory