The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-10-05

ment of Justice and its United States
district attorneys to produce the
evidence and documents relating to
the charges herein mentioned, ard 70
subpoena any witnesses or docu-
ments relating thereto that it may
find necessary, and to make a report
of the result Of such investigation
and what is shown thereby to the
Senate Of the United States as
promptly as possible.
The statement was published in
the Times some time ago that Bris-
bane borrowed from G. W. Feigen-
span $375.000 with which he pur-
chased the paper. Among the various
documents that Mr.. Palmer volun-
tarily presented to the Senate COM
mittee was letter from Feigenspan
to Robert Grain, whose office is in
no Munsey Building, wherein the
Times is located, showing that the
United States Brewers Association
obtained $407,500 from fifteen Ger
man brewers, of which $375,000 was
turned over to Mr.. Brisbane, with
out security, for the purpose Of the
newspaper.
For the purpose, apparently, Of
concealing the facts from the pub.
lie, the money so provided was turn.
ed back and forth between divers
and sundry banks and trust compan.
les, by Feigenspan as trustee, and
finally delivered to a little corpora
, tion in New York, owned or con
! trolled by Mr.. Brisbane, after which
it reached its destination through
the hands of a woman who appears
to be a relative of Mr.. Brisbane
though the kinship is not apparen
on the bank records Of the devious
1 transactions.
1t further appears from the docu
: ments laid before the committee tina
} virtually all great daily morning
3 and evening papers in New Yorl
we're seriously considered by tn
same aggregation Of German brew
I ers and propagandists with a vieN
{ to their purchase to promote tn
; interests Of the breweries. In tha
} connection the New York Epenin
, Mcil was priced by its owner q
( s1,oO0,0O0. 1t will be remembers
5 that the Mail was actually bough
) with German money, and that sever
; al indictments for failure to max
: proper returns to the alien propert
< custodian arose out Of the transat
< ton later.
Z Virtually all the breweries in tn
8 United States are owned by Roma
3 Catholics born in Germany. A car
8 vass Of those in any large city wi
& SO disclose. It's not strange, ther'
B fore, that Cardinal Gibbons helpe
4 to defeat wartime prohibition in Il
2 food-control bill in Congress Ia
3 year by giving at the crucial tin
3 an extended interview which Il
& liquor interests, at their own e
3 pense, furnished, plated and reat
3 for use, to the daily press throug
K out tho country. Neither Is
Z strange that the Anti-Saloon lie
b que, In a published statement, char
3 cd the defeat Of local option
q Boston to Cardinal 0'Connell.
3 IL clear why archbishop Messmer
X Milwaukee forbids oil priests in tn
K archdiocese to favor prohibition
H to permit any prohibition work
b bo done In or about their church,
2 Germany, popory and tho liqu
x power are partners In tho effort
Y blot liberty and justice from t
x earth,
IS In connection with the polite
B inolinations Of Brisbane and
H German n-Brewer-kept-pFess a lett
IS TO Brisbane said to have be
Y written by Tumulty, the prcs'dcn
X secretary, 10 Of special interest
q II ahows tho keen appreciation VI
B which Tumulty must be follow
H Brisbans's efforts to camouflage
q public In the interest OF "Catho
Is democracy" booze, and the politi
B aims Of those pro-German intere
X which work hand in hand W
T Rome's political gangsters,
IS We quote the Kansas City 8
:R for ssptembsr slst,
rs Washington, Sept, 2t.--Sena
R New Of Indiana, Republican, r,
IS 10 the Senate today . letter which