The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-09-12
TAGEbLATT RAID
D|SCL0SES PLOT
Evidence of Nationwide
Conspiracy Found in
Philadelphia Office
MONEY WAS RECEIVED
FROM GERMAN AGENT
Letters Found from Prominent Congress
men and Senator La Toilette - Two
More Editors Surrender and Are
Placed Under Bonds.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. II. Evi-
dence seized by the government agents
in their raid on the Philadelphia Tage-
blatt office at 107 North Sixth street on
Monday evening is alleged to show ma
tionwide conspiracy against the United
States.
In the books and records of the Tage-
blatt is evidence that il received regular
money contributions from a person in
Mexico, supposed to have been a Ger
man agent The books also show that
the Tageblatt was not supported by the
German labor organizations, for which
| il professed to be the official organ, but
had entirely different sources of income
At the same time, the Tageblatt EN-
! plOYed a man who came TO this country
after the war began, whose whole fam
| lily is in Germany, and who got an i'm.
Iportant position III the editorial depart
ment as n sort of German censor tC
see that the paper was kept in the right
German and anti-Ameriaan tone.
In the correspondence of the paper
letters were found from several prom
incnt congressman, including Senator
La Toilette.
While the Tageblatt editors were draw
ing on their imagination to manufacture
German victories and American distress
food scarcity, military impotence anC
disaster, the official information sent t.
the paper by the United States govern
ment departments was thrown into tn,
wastepaper baskets. The Tageblatt cdi
tors didn't even take the trouble OF
Opening the envelope containing true in
formation sent out by the United State
government to all newspapers. Thi
kind of news was found in sealed en-
velOpcs, Just as il was received, in tn,
wastepaper bales recovered i'll the raid
All the time the Tageblatt editor
were doing this, they sat in their offc
and wrote fake kilograms and cable
grams purporting to come from Amster
dam, Berlin, London, Petrograd an,
\, Washington bolstering up the kaiser
cause and designed to iniure America
= The 'TF0ffr- ;f'50tft tfrr' ARTICLES whirir N
Tagcblatt manufactured in its own of
flee but printed with date lines of foi
eign cities is that by putting these dat
lines ON their homemade fabrication
the Tageblatt editors made it appear a
if the stories had been passed upon an
} approved by official French, English, Q
American censors.
The records seized in the Tagebat
} raid also indicated that it was in con
slant communication with German
, throughout the country, and that il
; serial stories were syndicated Germa
propaganda assembled and sent out
. matrix form from the office of III
. New York Staats-Ieitung. These Ion
!. syndicate stories were all part of n;
. tional German propaganda and col
. tanned rarely anything except arg
. ments in favor of Germany and twiste
. historical review, attacking Englan
. France and Italy, and blaming the
!. for the war, in which Germany W;
. the innocent, inoffensive victim
brutal attack and INSCRIPTIONS il
|. trigue.
. Besides the two editors arrested
. the time of the raid, Herman lemk
: the business manager, and DR.. Mart
i. Darkow, the managing editor, two 9th
=. editors surrendered Yesterday, and the
/. bail was fixed at $4,000 each. The mt
= held were Louis Warner, editor in chic
I. and Waldimar Alfredo, an cditori
: writer Peter Schaefer, president
: the company which publishes the Tag
blatt, and Paul Vogel, treasurer, the OF
: or men wanted. were in Cincinnati,
. was said, and their counsel promise
!. they would be here Thursday.