Arizona republican., 1918-12-27
DARR0W TEST|F|ES
 FREE SPEECH OFTEN
 TOO UNRESTRICTED
Owner Of Chicago Tribune
 Called As Witness-Says He Resigned Because He Didn'tLike Papers Policy

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Clarence s. DaToW, in testifying at the trial of the five socialist leaders charged with violation of tSe espionage law, de- clar Nd today that there were occasions, in time of war, when even the right of free speech might be restricted. He said that he was willing that almost anything should be done to win the war.
 He was called as a witness by the defense, but these statements were made under cross examination by counsl or the government.
 Assistant District Attorney Fleming read to the witness numerous sections of the socialists St. Louis convention platform, and war program, and nu- merous of the antiWar pamphlets cir i culated by the party, and asked if he thought the publication of the docu- ments would have the effect of encour aging army enlistments.
 "On the man of average intelligence I do not think it would have any effect at all,'' replied MT. DarroW. Tt would deter some and encourage others to enlist. These things and others that pictured the horrors of war, I think really had the effect of causing the ! NOIlQ lO 1lSc dllu SlIlhe tut DlON which wiped out militarism.'
 1 MT. Darrow explained that he diff | fered with the socialists on the war and described certain of their actions as mistakes. He said he was in favor l of the war from the beginning. William Bross Lloyd, who described 1 his business as lawyer, trustee of his fathers estate, and a perfectly pure capitalist" testified to a visit paid tC his office last October by Private Ar mold Schiller, one of the star witnesse: for the government. He said Schiller 1 told him that William F. Kruse, one O the defendants, had permitted the gov ernment to get possession of severa discriminating letters, which made i necessary for Schiller to testify agains the socialists at the trial in order tt save his own hide"
 Lloyd said that he and his brother: owned p per cent of the stock of tn, Chicago Tribune. He said he was for merly member of the board of di rectors of the paper but resigned be cause he was not in accord with tn policy of the paper. The witness sai, he had been a socialist for many year and recently was the party candidat for senator in Illinois.
 hlChdTQ V. f1dnuWeTk ana DdVl l Mendelssohn testified that Schiller toll them of his plan to hide on his uncle farm in Michigan to evade army ser vice. Mendelssohn also described i detail the activities of the socialists conscript league, of which he was
 member, and which had for it's purpos the exemption from war duty of con scientious objectors.
 ] Abraham Cohn testified that he ha enlisted in the students army trainin corps a month after he had registere under the selective draft. He said h was a socialist and had read tn party's anti-war literature and that
 had no effect on his enlisting in tn government service.
 Attorney William A. Cunnea req
 several editorials from the Milwauke Leader Victor L. Berger's paper, a
 evidence for the defense. One of tn
 articles compared the brutal detentio
 and starvation of men, women an children at Lille, France, by the Ger man army, with the deportation ( . several hundred members of the l. VI
 w. from Bisbee, Arizona. Another edi
 torial commented on the fact that th
 German American alliance and otht
 pro German organizations and othe , publications in this country, oppose
 the socialist party and it's propagand against war.