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filed at 2:5t p. m. from Willicombe
to Carvalho, of the New York Amer
lean. saying that he is fling long
message from the Chief and again
on March l, filed at 2:40 p. m. a
lengthy message signed Doctor" to
Carvalho. The message reads as
follows:
Text of Message.
March 2. 1917.
Telegram.
S. s. Carvalho, New York Ameri-
can, New York City.
Agree with Francis Zimmerman
note all probability absolue fake
and forgery, prepared by very un-
scrupulous Attorney Generals very
unscrupulous department Every
body knows that the secret police
are the most conscienceless manu-
facturers of forged evidence in the
world. The ordinary police are bad
enough. with their trumped up evil
dence and railroading methods, but
the Federal agents, with the gov
ernment back of them, and more or
less immune from punishment, are
the most reckless concoctors or evil
dence and trainers of jobs in the
world.
Gregory's whole career in office as
Francis showed in recent editorial
| has been as a spy fancier and plot
conceiver. He has not been bound
I by morals, facts, or the Constitution.
He has employed the secret service
I to enforce Englands unlawful or
ders. He has attempted to put Dill
! through Congress to make any critl-
cism of his acts, or of the Presidents
acts, or of any political move or
measure, reasonable and punishable
as such.
| He is possibly violently pro-Brit-
i,ish. He is surely violently pro-cor-
poration. 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 a position on the Supreme Bench.
He and Burleson are Houses ap-
pointments and House has been a
corporation lobbyist all his life.
A Crooked Comparison.
! Gregory and Burleson are so
crooked that, 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 oftthe Zimmerman for
gerry 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 a danger
/ Gus international situation, sufficient
to justify his acts. He has never re-
vealed his private information. and no
! one now believes that he ever had
any.
He could not repeat this false claim
on this occasion: so a Complaisant
| Cabinet officer, this time, undertook
| to manufacture sufficient false evil
dence to enable Wilson to have his
way. 1t is possible that the British
| secret service co-operated in those
plans. The only serious consequence
I is that the whole people of this Coun-
| try, 80 per cent of whom do not want
war. may be projected into war be-
cause of these Misrepresentation and
| these forged documents. if they are
! forged.
! 1 believe in war, II the people want
war. They have to do the fighting.
| They ought to do the deciding. 1 be-
! lieve in, first, a referendum to the
people. and. second. failing that. a
| decision by the peoples representa-
| tives in Congress assembled.
Warns of Autocracy.
| We are getting very far away
| 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.
| 1t may be the right thing to do.
! but Rome, in so doing, drifted from
a republic into an empire.
l think the United States should
| remain a republic, in fact, as well
as in name and that the people
\ should neither be deceived by the
machinatioSs of a tricky Attorney
General nor deprived OF their rights
to decide a question of war or any
other momentous question. 1 do not
believe that any other individual has
an interest in such questions equal
to the interest of the great mass of
the public and 1 do not believe that
| the wisdom of any Individual is
equal to the collective wisdom of
| the people.
If we do not want to say all this
editorially, 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
snarn To he right