Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-10
HITCHCOCK AND HART
BRAND STATEMENTS OF
GERMANS AS UNTRUE
Nebraska Senator Declared
That All His Actions We're
In Open.

Washington, Dec. 10.-senator Hitch
cock, chairman of the senate foreign re-
lations committee and Professor Al
bert Bushnell Hart. harvard university
today branded as false aud unwarrant-
cd the efforts of German propagandists
to connect them with German intrigue
in the United States before this coun
try entered the war. Hitcheock's de
NAL was delivered to the senate while
Hart IS was made before the senate COM
mittee investigating propaganda.
Hitchcock referred to the letter DAT
ed July %, 1915, read into the record
by A. Bruce Bielaski, of the department
of justice, in which German Consul
Reiswitz at Chicago said that Hitch
cock, among others would aid in a
movement to get an embargo on arms
shipments to the allies. This letter was
written to some unnamed excellency''
| Was Author of Bill
eff this alleged excellency or Refs
WITT himself had any intelligence eth.
er or both of them might have known
that l was myself the author of the
bill to prohibit the expectation of arms
and ammunition, and that l had intro
duced it in the senate more than eight
months before the Reiswitz letter was
written" said Hitchcock.
Hitchcock declared the records show
every move he made was in the open
and was never subject for apology on
his part.
'The fact was reelected ny com
! Portable majority indicates that my
course and my motives were understood
and approved by the people of Nebras-
ka," he said.
Explained Stand.
Hitchcock explained his stand for
American neutrality in 1914 by saying
that Gin those days the country was
under pledge of neutrality by virtue
of the presidents proclamation made
when the war broke out.
my attitude naturally changed
with changing conditions" he said.
| When Germany began systematic on
our commerce was ready to fight to
protect our neutrality"
He recalled how he supported the
presidents request for authority to as
sert and protect our neutrality by arm
ing merchant ships. ~ had charge in
the senate" he said, "of what was
known as the armed neutrality resolu-
1 tion which died so ,dramatically."
He said he had no disposition to crit
icise Bielaski for revealing all tho Sc
crct correspondence ofAGerman agents
and conspirators but he said it was
evident "that they, in correspondence,
used the names Of a number Of public
men recklessly, if not falsely.
/ Put Telegram in Record
i Major E. Lowry Humes put into the
lreeord the kilograms he said were sent
| from w. R. Hearst from Florida to ed
litors of his papers regarding war pol
icies The kilograms were produced
from department of justice files by A.
Bruce Bielaski. Dated February 25,
El9l7, telegram read.
/ "Please make editorial advocating
embargo from America along your
lines. Also kindly make one for Even
ing Journal amplifying and improving
following suggestions
| "America is not only being starved
for the benefit of warning Europe, but
is being plundered of its wealth as
well. = Uncle Sam Is being gold
bricked.
I "And why are we wasting our
wealth9 If it were for some noble pur-
pose we could afford to 60 poor for
generation and comport and consola-
tion of a worthy deed.
"But, no, we are wasting our wealth
to continue a carnival OF murder to
prolong an era of overwhelming disas-
ter, to encourage destruction of the
white race, to tear down the achieve
ments of civilization which have taken
Iages to construct, to repud.ate religion
and violate all established standards
of decency. morality and righteousness,
to prostitute the progress Of the world
to the meanest and basest and vilest
of purposes.
Another Message
A telegram from Hearst to Hale in
Berlin, February 81, 1917:
fT firmly believe vast majority
people of the United States are unde:
SlrOuS OF war WIN benmdny Also
believe people in Germany equally UNI
desirous war with United States.
"The course of my papers has been
fair to Germany not because am pro-
German any more than pro-ally. l am
simply patriotically interested in in:
fluencing my country altraistically in
terested in progress of the world"
Another telegram in the collection
was addressed to Caryalho in New
York and signed merely Doctor" No
other identity of the writer was given.
>. Criticized Gregory
In referring to the Zimmerman note,
the sender bitterly criticized Attor-
ney General Gregory and Postmaster
General Burleson.
| The telegram read:
"Agree with Francis, Zimmerman
note all probability absolute fake and
forgery, prepared by ve.y unscrupu-
lous attorney generals very unscrupu-
lous department. Everybody knows the
secret police are the most conscience
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