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Show 00 BERBER'S SEAT ! TO BE COM) 1 MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec 5 Formal notice contesting Victor Bergor's seat in congress deals extensively with editorial ed-itorial comment in the Milwaukee Leader and makes tho general charge that Berger interfered with the operation opera-tion and success of the military and naval forces of the United States in the world war. Tho notice quotes six reasons expressed ex-pressed in the Leader, among them being this statement: "The entente allies were practically at the end of their rope. If the United Uni-ted States had not entered, tho war would have been over by this time. All our capitalist papers admit this whenever It suits their purpose they deny when it does noL About $3,000,-000,000 $3,000,-000,000 of notes and other obligations which the allied powers owo to Morgan, Mor-gan, Schwab and company to the munition mu-nition workers and exporters of all kinds of war material in America might not havo beon worth much over thirty cents if the allies would have lost the war." The notice presents parts of an interview in-terview with Berger in the Leader in which it is said Berger declared: "The forces of capitalism which have lefd to tho war in Europe are even more hidoously transparent in the war recently provoked by the ruling class of this country. Our entrnnco into the t rjuiujiiiuu w.tr wua niaugaiea oy ine predatory capitalists in the United States. The war of the United States against Germany cannot be justified oven on tho ploa that It is a war in defense de-fense of American rights or American honor." |