Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-27
DARROW ON STAND
 IN BERGER TRIAL
 SWANIEDWAR
Asserts Socialist Propaganda Would Have No Effect; De- fense Witnesses Tell of Schiller's Actions
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 CHICAGO, Dec 26.-Clarence ,.
 Darrow in testifying at the trial of
 the five socialist leaders charged with
 violation of the espionage law declar-
 ed today that there were occasions
 in time of war when even the right of
 free speech must be restricted. He
 said that he was willing that almost
 anything should be done to win the war.
 He was called as witness by the defense but these statements were made under cToss-eNamination by counsel for the government.
 Assistant District Attorney Fleming read to the witness numerous sections of the socialists St. Louis convention platform and war program and num- erous of the anti-war pamphlets ciTcu- lated by the party and asked if he thought the publication of the docu- ments would have the effect of en- couraging army enlistments.
 "On the man of average intelligence l do not think it would have any ef- feet at all," replied Mir Darrow. It would deter some and encourage Oth- CTS to enlist. These things and oth- CTS that pictured the horrors of war l think really had the effect of caus- ing the world to rise and strike the blow which wiped out militarism.'
 Mr. Darrow explained that he differ ed with the socialist on the war and described certain of their actions as mistakes He said he was in favor of the war from the beginning.
 William Bross Lloyd. who described his business as lawyer, trustee of his fathers estate and a perfectly pure capitalist" testified to a visit paid to his office last October by Private Arnold Schiller, one of the star wit nesses for the government He said Schiller told him that William F. Kruse, one of the defendants, had per mitted the government to obtain pos session Of several discriminating let ters which made it necessary for Schiller to testify against the social ists at the trial in order to save his own hide"
 Lloyd said that he and his brothers owned 9 per cent of the stock of the Chicago Tribune. He said he was for merly member of the board of direc- tors of the paper but resigned because 1 he was not in accord with its policy. | The witness said he had been a social ] ist for many years and recently was the party candidate for senator in Hi i nois.
 Richard O. Handwerk and David ! testified that Schiller told ! them of his plan to hide on his uncles . farm in Michigan to eyade army sery- | ice. MendelsOhn also described in de- | tail the activities of the socialists and which had for its purpose ! the exemption from war duty of con scientiOus Objectors.
 Abraham Corn testified that he had enlisted in the students army training corps a month after he had registered under the selectiye draft. He said he was a socialist and had read the party's anti-war literature and that it had no effect on his enlisting in the government service.
 Attorney William A. Cunnea read several editorials from the Milwaukee Leader, Victor L. Berger's paper. as evidence for the defense. One of the articles compared the brutal detention and starvation of men, women and children at Lille. France. by the Ger man army with the deportation of sev- eral hundred members of l. W. W. rom Bisbee. Ariz. Another editorial On the fact that the Ger nan alliance and other pro-German or 5anizations and other publications in his country vigorously opposed the socialist party and it's propaganda against war.