The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

regarding the immerman note, signed Doctor" read as follows.
 DOCTOR" MESSAGE
 ! agree with Francis; Zimmerman note all probability absolute fake and forgery, prepared by Attorney Generals s very interruptions department. Ev- erybody knows that the secret police are the most conscienceless manufac- ] turers Of forged evidence in the worli sGregory's whole career in office. as Francis showed in recent editorial. has been 4 spy sent here ana ptdt conceived ssale has not been bound by morals. facts or the constitution. He has employed the secret service to enforce Engiand's unlawful orders. He has attempted to put bill through Congress to make any criticism of his acts, or of the Presidents acts or of any political move or measure reasonable and punishable as such.
 He Is possibly violently o-British He is surely violently pro corporation. He. is located where he can do the corpora tions most good, and he has been un- willing to be removed or they have been unwilling to get him removed, even for position on the supreme bench He and Burleson are House appointment and House has been corporation lob byist all his life
 The object of the Zimmerman forgery was to frighten Congress into giving the President the powers that he de- manded and perhaps also into passing the espionage bill. When Wilson wanted to give away the rights of the United States in the Panama canal, he pretended that he had private information of dan gerous international situation sufficient to justify his acts. He has never revealed his private information and no one now believes that he ever had any.
 He could not repeat this false claim on this occasion, so complaisant cabinet officer, this time, undertook to manu- facture sufficient false evidence to enable MT. Wilson to have his way It is pos sible the British secret service cooper ated in these plans. The only serious charge is that the whole people of this country, 90 per cent of whom do not want war, may be projected into war because of these misrepresentations and these forged documents. if they are forged.
 If we do not want to say all this editorially, we can say part of it editorially, and get someone to stand for an interview as Hale used to do to bring the probale forgery of the note. We should develop the forgery phase of the note for the Sunday paper if Francis and I seem to be right"
 BELIEVED STORY HOAX
  Viericks Weekly, formerly the Father land, whose name has been mentioned several times in the inquiry. sent Hearst q message from New York under date of March l, saying he believed the story of the Zimmerman note was hoax" and that the document was planted by British agents.''
 Under date of March 3. Hearst sent these messages to Caryelho:
 fooI i,, ;,, tinual session and protect the peoples liberties. This making a dictator of l President desperately dangerous prece dent It may do no immediate harm with a good President, but it may do immense injury with some bad one . Wilson is federalist. as I wrote in first 1 year of his term. and as Francis showed iE alien and sedition editorial The fed l eralists are autocratic in tendency. |
 President of this republic today l las more power than any King in any i monarchy in the world l If he gets more he will be dictator ! and possibly despot. It is the duty | of true democrats to be vigilant, especi- l ally as all these encroa chments on popu- l lar rights are being made in the name | of democracy.
 'McCay could make strong eight col l umn cartoon occupying in depth two thirds editorial page. showing smaller | figures Uncle Sam and Germany shak- | ing their fists at each other on left side page and on right side big head and | shoulders of Japan with knife in hand | leaning over into picture and evidently | chance to strike Uncle Sam in | back; title of picture to be Watch | ful Waiting" subtitle. Look out. Uncle | sam, your neighbor. Japan. is eagerly | waiting an opportanity to strike you ir ! the back
 WOULD WITHHOLD POWERS Under date of March 1. this telegram | was sent to 'Carvalho:
 Think beneficial thing Senate not to | give President great powers demanded If my telegram of yesterday, explaining 1 my opposition to such powers and ad- | vocacy or extra session was not printed | in Sunday paper. please elaborate it l
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