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Show DARROW WAS FIJI WAS But Appealed to Wilson for Right of Free Press and Free Speech. CHICAGO, Dec. 26. Clarence S. Darrow, In testifying at the trial of the five Socialist loaders charged with violation of the espionage law, declared de-clared today that thero were occasions in timo of war when even the right1 of free speech must be restricted. He! said that he was willing that almost anything should be done to win the Avar. He was called as a witness by the defense but these statements were made under cross-examination by counsel for the government Assistant Attorney Fleming read to tho witness numerous sections of the Socialists' St. Louis platform and war program and numerous of the anf- war pamphlets circulated by the party and asked if he thought the publication publica-tion of the documents would have the effect of encouraging army enlistments. enlist-ments. "On the man of average intelligence I do not think it would have any effect ef-fect at all," replied Mr. Darrow. "It would deter some and oncourage others oth-ers to enlist. These tilings and others that pictured the horrors of war, I think really had the effect of causing the world to rise and strike the blow which wiped out militarism." Mr. Darrow explained that he dif-' dif-' forcd with tho Socialist on the war land described certain of their actions ,-as mistakes. He said he was in fa-ivor fa-ivor of the war from the beginning. Tho witness told of two trips made to Washington in the summer of 1917 to plead for the restoration of the second sec-ond class mailing privileges of the American Socialist. He said his object ob-ject was to uphold free speech and a free press and to have a system of uniform rules laid down by "the government gov-ernment for the guidance of radical publications. After being overruled by the postmaster general and the department de-partment of justice, he laid the case before President Wilson. William Bross Lloyd, who described his business as lawyer, trustee of his father's estate and. a "perfcctlv pure capitalist," testified to a visit paid to his office last October by Private Arnold Ar-nold Schiller, one of the star witnesses witnes-ses for the government. He said Schiller told him that William F. Kruse. one of the defendants, had permitted per-mitted the government to obtain possession pos-session of several incriminating letters let-ters which made it necessary for Schiller to testify against the Socialists Social-ists at the trial In order to "save his own hide." Lloyd said that he and his brothers owned twenty-five per cent of the stock of the Chicago Tribune. lie said he was formerly member of the board of directors of the paper but resigned because he was not In accord ac-cord with its policy. Tho witness said he had been a Socialist for many years and recently was the party candidate for senator in Illinois. Richard O. Handwerk testified that Schiller came to him before he was drafted into the army and suggested that he had a plan of evading military service by escaping to Mexico in a motor boat. The witness said that on another occasion Schiller said he was going to hide on his uncle's farm in Michigan. "He asked me to go with him but I told him ho was foolish to talk that way," said tho witness. David Menhelsohn corroborated tho story of Schiller's plan to hide on his uncle's farm in Michigan to evado army service. He also described in detail the activities of the Socialists' conscript league, of which ho was a member, and which had for its purpose pur-pose the exemption from war duty of conscientious objectors. Abraham Corn testified thnt 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 had road the party's par-ty's anti-war literature and that it had no effect on his enlisting in the government service. Attorney William A. Cunnea read editorials from the Milwaukee Leader, Lead-er, Victor L. Berger's paper, as evidence evi-dence for the defense. One of the articles compared the brutal detention deten-tion and starvation of men, women and children at Lille. Franco, by the German Ger-man army with the deportation of several hundred members of tho I. W. , W. from Blsbee, Ariz. Another editorial edi-torial commented on the fact that the German American alliance and other pro-German organizations and their publications in this country vigorously opposed the Socialist party and ita propaganda against war. oo |