The Washington herald., 1915-12-08
Pro- German Paper Indorses Man
WhoSaid America Was mo Good
New York Herald by Printing FacSmes of Letters Proves
Hypocrisy of Fair Play" Publication Made Amer
lean in Appearance to Promote Kultur"
Ambassador Was Stockholder

/, by the Fair Play Printing and Publish
president or the $2sO.0OO capital stock
| only about $4,000 was sold to about
| tnirty persons. I did not sell nor. solicit
any OF the business. In fact, since its
| incorporation l have had nothing to do
with the business affairs of Fair Play.
The editorial policy of the publication
was never anything else but pro-Ameri-
can. pro-truth. pro-justicc. and pro-de-
cency IN our dealings with everybody
The files Of Fair Play ought to corrob-
orate this statement and my personal
record as citizen. newspaper man and
government official shows many a tilt I
had with foreign governments and their
representatives because of the American
stand took all the time.
Refers to- Roosevelt Dinner.
4 need but recall 100, when Mr.. Zseni.
OF Budapest. brought a Hungarian flag
over with the avowed purpose of remind
ing Hungarians that their eternal al
lesiance belongs to Hungary. l might
mention my speech of February H. 1855.
, at Little Hungary when President
Roosevelt was our guest at the dinner
OF the Hungarian Republican Club. when
l called attention to the fact that every
day our fight is against foreign govern
ments trying to interfere with our good
citizenship l need but recall that shortly
after that speech went to Hungary on
one of my usual trips as an investigator
OF the Bureau of immigration, and there
had n serious alteration with the Hun
garian government because I caught one
OF its officers rifiing my mail"
''All for AmericR."
Then you say that you and your
paper. Fair Play. are all for the United
States?''
"Undoubtedly. have frequently at
tackled by pen and speech certain activi-
ties OF foreign governments in this coun-
try before the war; and / am decidedly
opposed to any criminal propaganda to
be carried on in this country by any one,
whether it be a foreign government agent
or any one else.
''On the sinking of the Lusitania /
wrote a strong editorial in the MayI
issue of Fair Play, upholding the Presi-i
dent in everything he did and no one Il
stronger i'm the condemnation of the ac-
tivities of certain foreign born citizens
than I am. With all that however my
sympathies in this war are with my ma
tive land and its allies as against Rus
sia and Serbia and their allies. | know
what 1t would mean II Russia should
come out victorious in this war ! know
European conditions and while love
u a
the allies of Russia I cannot help then.
to be against my native land and her
allies.
Resents Being had" American.
But that makes me not a pro-Ger- |
man by any means. and I most en- !
phaticslly resent the suggestion that |
IL makes me bad American. When
ever il becomes a question to choose |
bttWpen America
country then there is not the shadow |
of a doubt that l am with America, /!
and / believe that, with very few ex- |
ceptions. all the foreign-born citi- +,
zens of German. Austrian and Hun !
garian origin would likewise be with !
America. first, last and all the time
While Mr.. Braun was making this |
statement the reporter showed him a |
fac-simile of the letter from W. C. |
Meyer of Independence, Kan. in |
which Meyer said that he was asham- |
ed of the name American. and the an
swered from Fair Play heartily agree
ing with Meyers sentiments. ,
Say. Letter. Were stolen.
"Ha." said Mr.. Braun Those let
ters were stolen from my files re-
member those letters. The answer to
Meyer l believe was written by Mr.
Bryan. then business manager of the
Fair Play company"
He Is not business manager now"
'Oh. no. no. My answer to Mr.
Meyer would have been:
"'You cannot represent this pub@- /
cation. because il would be a disgrace
for an American periodical to have a
a representative like you
Now. in regard to the question of
i believe that the United 4
States should have navy big enough 4
and strong enough to tell one or all of
the great powers together to go to
b. IL ever they try TO interfere with
our peace. comfort and well being. In II
addition, I believe we should have an
armyf big enough to avoid such hu-
as we have experienced in
Mexico"