Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-11

ment copies OF kilograms signed by
William Randolph Hearst giving in
nstructions regarding the policy of
his newspapers and their correspon-
dents during the war were read in
to the record at to-day's hearing
of the Senate committee investigat-
ing German propaganda.
Cables Hale Instructions
In q message to the New York
American on February "a, 1917.
Mr.. Hearst outlined instructions to
be cabled to William Bayard Hale,
I then a Hearst correspondent in Ber-
lin and who. according to evidence
recently produced was on the Ger
man payroll without Hearst's knowl-
edge. Mr. Hearst said he believed
a vast majority of the people in
America and Germany opposed the
United States entering the war and
concluded we earnestly desire to
employ the influence Of our country
not for the extension and protrac-
tion of the war, but for the promo
tion of a just and lasting peace"
A message dated March 2, sign
ed Doctor, and addressed to S. s.
Carvalho, Ned York American, de-
, clared the famous zimmerman note
in which Germany proposed an alli-
ance with Mexico and Japan and
which the Associated Press revealed
to the world, probably was a forgery
prepared by the attorney general.
The object of the forgery" the
message said, was to frighten Con-
gress into giving the President the
powers he demanded and perhaps
also into passing the espionage
| bill"
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart,
of Harvard University, pointed to
his record and to his published arti-
cles on the war as evidence that his
name had no place on the German
"iist of important names" in the
committees investigation of German
| propaganda.
Professor Hart described his ac-
ouaintance with pro-Germans and
| declared he had not shared their
views at any time. He said he re-
/ fused to join the German University
| Alliance at the invitation of Otto
Merkel, of New York, because he
did not wish to become identified
with such an organization. IL ne
were properly classed as pro-Ger-
man he declared, his associates in
| Harvard and elsewhere could prop
erly class him as hypocrite and
| he cited many articles written by
him and published in New York
newspapers and elsewhere in which
he condemned the violation OF Bel
GUM. .,s
Doctor" said in part.
Agree with Francis zimmerman
note all probability absolute rake ana
forgery, prepared by very unscrupu-
Ions attorney generals very unscrup-
ulous department. Everybody knows
| that the secret police are the most
! conscienceless manufacturers Oh
forged evidence in the world .
Gregorys whole career in ONCE as
Francis showed in recent edltorlai'
has been a spy sent here ana plot
conceiver. He has not been bound
Inv morals, facts or the constitution.
He has employed the secret service
to enforce England's unlawful or
ders He has attempted to put q
bill through Congress to make any
criticism of his acts or of the Presi-
dents acts or of any political move
| or measure reasonable and punish
tble as such.
He Is violently pro-British. lie
is surely violently pro-corporation
He is located where he can do the
corporations the most good and he
has been unwilling 10 be removed or
thew have been unwilling to have
him removed even for a position on
the supreme bench. He and Burle-
son are Houses appointments and
House has been corporation lobby
ist all his life.
THE object of the Zimmerman
forgery was to frighten Congress in
to giving the President the powers
that he demanded 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 suf-
ficient to justify his acts. He has
never revealed his private informa-
ton and no one believes that he
ever had any.
"He could not repeat this false
claim on this occasion, so a COM
plaisant cabinet officer this time un-
dertook to manufacture much
false evidence 10 enable Wilson to
have his way. 1t is possible that the
British secret service co-operated in
these plans. The only serious con-
sequence is that the whole people of
this country. ninety per cent. OF
whom do not want war, may be pro-
iected into war because of these
Misrepresentation and these forged
documents, If they are forged.
IF we do not want to say all this
editorially. we can say part of 1t edi-
torially, and get someone to stand for
interview as Hale used to do to bring
all these points out, especially those
about the probable forgery of the
note. We should develop the for
gerry phase of the note for the Sun
day paper, If Francis and 1 seem to
be right
A message dated February 81.
1917, addressed to Philip Francis. in
care of the New York American,
said there should be a vigorous at
tack on the espionage bill and quot
ed Senator Cummins as saying the
measure was the most stringent and
drastic ever proposed to curb a free
people.
THE Democratic party" the mes
sage added, seems to forget that
this is a republic in which the people
govern. and in which full informa-
ton is essential to intelligent govern
ment."
A message dated March 8. 1917,
sgned Hearst and sent to Car
valho, said:
! If situation quiets down, please