Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-26

to weaken the Germans so they can go in and steal the Germans property and land. do you believe that is true? A. That is the first time I heard of it.
 Q. Do you now approve of it? A. Do have to answer such foolish ques- tions as that?
 Mir. Laney: Yes, governor, answer. A. No, I do not.
 Mir Campbell: O. Do you approve of this statement made on the front page of the June, 1918, issue of Upton Sinclair's magazine: Our share of world plunder is Porto Rico, the Philippines and the Panama canal We took these things by force of arms Theodore Roosevelt boasts how he took Panama; justifying it in the high CT interests of civilization. Just so the kaiser justifies the rape of Ser bia. Do you approve of that2 A That is the first time l heard it. I didn't see the magazine.
 e. You mean after using the states money and taxpayers money to get this magazine for the state office, yoa didn't read it? A. haven't seen it.
 Q. Do you approve of that senti- ment? A. I would have to read the whole article.
 Q. That much of it do you approve of?
 Mir. Laney: I object to the ques- tion as not ineligible, it may be a quotation from something, it may be merely anything
 The Court: It is a copy of Upton Gfnn1nfrfc vf nd Fhut on the front page. He says he ad- mires and wants to support him, and I ask if he goes so far as to sup port him to that extent.
 The Court: May the statement be read again?
 Compares Teddy to Kaiser
 Mir Campbell: "Our share of world plunder is Porto Rico. the Philippines and the Panama canal. We took these things by force of arms. Theodore Roosevelt boasts how he took Pana- ma; justifying it in the higher inter ests of civilization. Just so the kaiser justifies the rape of Serbia"
 The Court: If you can, answer it, governor. A. That is an extract from a whole article?
 MT. Campbell: Q. It is a paragraph. and l ask you if you approve of that sentiment?
 Doubts Part of Bible
 A Why, judge, I don't approve there is lots of things in the Bible I don't approve of.
 Said Wilson Tool of Capitol
 Q. Do you subscribe to this part of the article, is this part you subscribe to: Woodrow Wilson is helpless ex- cept as he has public opinion behind him; and this public opinion is being shaped by capitalist newspapers. own ed by the imperialists and reaction aries of America, which do not dare To say they disagree with the presi- ' dents policy, but which by their ev- cry utterance show that they mean to balk his intention of real democ- racy."?
 MT. Laney: I object to that unless t is shown what date that is.
 Mir. Campbell: That is in the April number. 1918, the first issue you got, hat sounds like some of your state papers. do you approve of it?
 MT. Laney; Just a minute, may it please the court. counsel has spoken )f the witness getting heated here. If were the witness would get heated oo. that sounds like some of your state papers"
 Mir. Campbell: I asked if he ap- proved of it. A. Judge, there is many hings in any paper 1 don't approve )f, it is my right as an American ,itizen.
 Mir. Campbell: Governor, are you amiliar with the poem appearing in he paper, Upton Sinclair's, for April. o which you subscribed. by Mary Jraig Sinclair. wife of Upton Sinclair. untitled "Brest-Litovsk," a Bolsheviki ,oem?
 Never Cancelled Subscriptions
 Mir Campben: Q. Governor. have -ou ever cancelled your subscription. IT the subscriptions on behalf of the tate or state institutions, for this nagazine2 A. No, sir.
 Q. They are still sending them to he various state institutions? A. suppose so.
 Sent to School Children
 O. And they are sent where every .hild who attends our normal schoo.s ,r universities can read them. and lnow they came from the governor if the state? A. I guess the librarian ooks after that.
 Q. You have not taken any steps to ancel the subscriptions? A No. sir.
 have not.
 Mir. Campbell: Do you think-in -Our attitude of mind such towards he war that you think these sent:- nents that l have read here, all of hem should go into the hands of the -arious state institutions. be put in he libraries for the use of the chil- lren who are attending the normal chOols and university of this state as tate expense?
 Mir Laney: Object to that as en- iTely irrelevant
 Mir Campbell: II the court please. am inquiring as to his sentiments.
 The Court: Sustain the obJec ion.