Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-27
BARROW DECLARES
SOCIALIST STAND
ON WAR MISTAKE
socialist Attorney Says in
Time of War May Be Nee
eSSary to Abridge Free
Speech and Other Liberties,
icy MORNING lousH.l SPECIAL lr.sro w,Hsi

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! Chicago, Dec. 26.--Clarence S. Oar
row in testifying at the trial of the
! 1--WE socialist leaders charged with VIC
lation OF the espionage law declared
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.
lie was called as witness by the
defense but these statements were
made under cross examination by
counsel for tha N ernaens.
Assistant District Attorney Fleming
read to the witness numerous sec
tons of the socialists St Louis con-
vention platform and war program
and numerous of the anti war pamph-
let's circulated by the party and asked
II he thought the publication of the
documents would have the effect of
encouraging army enlistments.
'On the man of average intelli-
lgence | do not think it would have
any effect at all. " replied Mr.. barrow.
1T would deter some and encourage
others to enlist. These things and
others that pictured the horrors of
war | think really had the effect of
causing the world to rise and strikf
the blow which wiped out militarism,
Mr.. barrow explained that he diff
fered with the socialist on the war
and described certain of their actions
as mistakes, lie said he was in favor
of the war from the beginning.
William Bross Lloyd, who described
bis 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 Ar
mold Schiller, one Of the star wit
nesses for the government He said
Schiller told him that William r
Kruse, one of the defendants, had
permitted the government to obtain
possession of several discriminating
letters which made IT necessary for
Schiller to testify against the social
lists at the trial in order to save his
own hide"
Schiller Testimony Attacked.
Lloyd said that he and his brothers
owned 25 per cent of the stock of the
Chicago Tribune. He said he was
formerly member of the board of
directors of the paper but resigned
because he was not in accord with its
policy. The witness said he had been
a socialist for many years and re-
Gently was the party candidate for
senator in Illinois.
Richard o, Handwerk and David
Mendelsohn testified that Schiller
told them of his plan to hide on his
umcle's farm in Michigan to evade |
army service. Mendelsohn also de- !
scribed in detail the activities OF the !
socialists conscript league of which |
he was a member and which had for |
its purpose the exemption from war
duty of conscientious directors.
Abraham Corn testified that he had |
enlisted in the students army training
corps a month after he had registered !
under the selective draft. He said he |
was a socialist and read the party's I
anti-war literature and that it had no
effect on his enlisting in the govern t
ment service.
Attorney William A. Guinea read |
several editorials from the Milwaukee
Leader, Victor l.. Berger's paper, S
evidence for the defense One of the I
articles compared the brutal deten-
ton and starvation Of men, women
and children at Lille, France. by the
German army with the deportation of |
several hundred members of the l.
w. w. from Bisbee, Ariz. Another
editorial commented on the fact that
the German American alliance and
other pro- German organizations and
other publications in this country
vigorously opposed the socialist party
and its propaganda against the war.