New-York tribune., 1918-12-11
piled: Nothing more in sight from
Mr. Hearst to Mr. Carvalho."
Doctor" Assails Gregory

The "Doctor" telegram follows:
Filled 2:4o p. m, March ., 1917.
IS. s. Carvalho, New York Ameri-
can" New York City.
agree with Francis Zimmerman
note all probability absolute fake and
forgery, prepared by a very unscru-
pulous Attorney Generals very un-
scrupulous department. Everybody
knows that the secret police are the
most conscienceless manufacturers
of forged evidence in the world. The
ordinary police arc bad enough, with
their trumped-up evidence and rail
reading methods, but the Federal
agents, with the government back of
them and more or less immune from
punishment, are the most reckless
concoctors Of evidence and trainers
of jobs in the world.
"Gregory's whole career in office,
as Francis showed in recent edi-
torial, has been as spy fancier and
plot conceiver He has not been
bound by morals, facts or the CON
stitution. He has employed the Sc
cret Service to enforce England's
unlawful orders. He has attempted
to put a bill through Congress to
make any criticism of his acts or of
the Presidents acts or of any politi-
cal move or measure reasonable and
OunlSh ahle aS SI1ch
Brands Him Pro-Corporation
He is possibly violently pro
British. He is surely violently pro-
corporation. He is located where he
can do the corporations the most
good and he has been unwilling to
be removed or they have been un-
willing to have him removed even
for position on the Supreme bench.
He and Burleson arc Houses ap-
pointments and House has been
corporation lobbyist all his life.
Gregory and Burleson arc so
crooked. as Alfred Henry Lewis used
to say, one of them could lie in bed
on top of the Woolworth Building
and the other on the ground floor
and look down and up forty-seven
flights of winding stairs into each
others eyes and understand each
other perfectly.
"The object of the Zimmerman
forgery was to frighten Congress
into 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
dangerous international situation
sufficient to justify his acts. He has
never revealed his private informa-
tion, and no one now believes that
he ever had any.
Think British Had Hand
He could not repeat this false
claim on this occasion, so COM
plalsant Cabinet officer this time un-
dertook to manufacture sufficient
false evidence to enable Wilson to
have his way. 1t is possible that the
British Secret Service cooperated in
those plans. The only serious con-
sequence is that the whole people
OF this country, 80 per cent of whom
do not want war, may be projected
INTO war because of these misrepre-
sentatlons and these forged docu-
ments. if they are forged.
Il believe in war if the people want
war. They have to do the fighting.
They ought to do the deciding. l be-
lleve IN, first, referendum to the
people, and, second, failing that,
decision by the peoples representa-
tives in Congress assembled
I'VE are getting very far awav
from democracy and very close to
autocracy when we repose all the
power of the people and all the
power of the peoples representa-
tives in the hands of one man whom
we thereby create a dictator.
Sc A>oAhS fsS dIl Example
"lt may be the right thing to do.
but Rome in SO doing drifted from a
republic into an empire.
Il think the United States should
remain republic in fact as we'll as
IN name and that the people should
neither be deceived by the machina
tons of tricky Attorney General
nor deprived of their rights to de-
eide a question of war or anv other
momentous question. do not believe
that any other individual has an in
terest IN such questions equal to the
interest of the great mass of the
public, and do not believe that the
wisdom of any individual is equal to
the collective wisdom of the peonle
If we do not want to say all this
edltorially, we can say part of it
editorially, and get some one 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 de-
velop the forgery phase of the note
for the Sunday paper if Francis and
| seem to be right. DOCTOR"
Ordered Attack on Bill