The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22
The German Embassy's Interest In
American Journalism.

The most interesting. II not the
most important discovery In the
Worlds Golconda Of material con
corning the German propaganda Is
what purpOrts to lie the personal
check of the German Ambassador.
Count o BERNsroRrr. To the order
of MARCUS BRAUN's weekly newspaper
named Fair PIpU. This publication
Is a competitor of GEORGE SYLVESTER
r~IERFcK's F'dthcrIdnd for all the
subscription money and advertising
money that II be extracted from the
pockets Of hyphcnated bipatriots,
Count Won BrRNsToRFF's check 10
Fair PldU was drawn on May % last.
and 1t was for $1,000.
Two months earlier. on March II,
the German Amba SSalOr had written
TO the editor Cf Fair Play n letter
certifying that the paper hal ALWAYS
taken the American point of view"
Count o BERNsToRFr expressed un-
qualified approval of the editorial
policy of Fair Play. describing 1t as
"always maintaining an American al
titude and showing true American
spirit" while fighting for truth.
Apparently the Ambassadors ad-
miration of Mr.. MARCUS BRAUN's en-
deavors to preserve the true American
spirit in the hearts If the hyphenatel
bipatriots who read Fair Play had
warmed, during the vernal weather
between the middle of March and the
end Of May, into an irresistible i'm,
pulse to forward TO Mr.. BRAUN's es.
Enlistment a testimonial Of esteem
and gratitude in the shape Of a check
for $1,000. Ii Is Il rare ana beautiful
Of personal detachment from the or
dlnarily rigid, polite AVID selfish at
titude of the Embassy. 1t is enough
to cause HERMAN EIDDER to shed
tears Of joy.
We cannot pursue this subject, how
ever, without noting the singular cir,
cumstance that while compliment,
and cash were flowing like champagne
from Ambassador Won BERNsToRFF f.
BRAUN of Fair PIdU, ii was the less
felicltous lot OF VIERECK of FdthCr
land 10 lie n supplicant for remit.
tances. 4 month after MARCUS hal
presumably cashed the good .AmbaS
sadOr's $1,000 check on KUHN, LORI
K Co., GEoRGE SYINEsTFR was writing
to his peculiar MRcenas the Herr
Doktor ALBERT: AS | have alrea u
received $3.50 this month | enclose Il
statement for S1.50O for June. Wi
you please q. X. this ANA ! shall thci
send my secretary for the cash?
am sending this letter by boy. rs fol-
obvious reasons ! do not wish It I,
60 through the mails" In this case
AS Mr.. EvARTS would have put II. +
was the water that flowed like cham
payne. The unfortunate NIfRrCK wa,
no only compelled to undergo the hu
initiating routine Of memorandum IN,
audit and delay ana reminder, bu
also To avoid the United Stntes mail,
"for obvious reasons of caution ant
to confide his acute pruninry OK
pectatlons to an nnsympl,hetic am
perhaps sardonic office boy,
And yet we venture to declare tina
MARCUS BRAUN never ven half s.,
far as GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERrcK II
abJect identification of himself will
me imperial promoters and patron.
of the propaganda, VIEREcK said II
his paper yesterday that he could fin.
neither In the WOrId's revelations no
In his own memory anything Incom
paub'e with my integrity as a publ
cist or my loyalty az an America,
citizen According TO one of IN,
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