The Sentinel=record., 1918-11-20
SENATE IS PROBING
 BREWERS ACTIVITIES
EVIDENCE BROUGHT OUT THAT THEY FURNISHED MONEY TO
 BUY NEWSPAPERS.

Washington. NOV. l9.-Evdence de- signed to prove that brewers assisted William A. Sheehan and Charles Allen 10 finance the purchase of the Mont gcmery. Ala. Advertiser. was offered
 today at the opening of the senate | judiciary sub- committee'ss inyestiga- 1 ton of brewers activities The in- qulry was ordered by the senate after l disclosures had been made that brew cry interests had loaned Arthur Bris bane $S75,000 for the purchase of She Washington Times.
 C. w. Feieenspan. with whom Rris- bare dcalt in securing the loan, iden- titled as brewers men who had en- dorsed notes fer 50.00O each cn whjca a Philadelphia hank loaned Allen ana I,Sheehan sl00,000 alleged to have been used in purchasing tho Advertiser Schmidt. a Philadelphia brewer hanll-
 ed the $10G000 underwriting for che Advertiser and hat either the brew CTS counsel in Washington, or Mr. | Brisbane had arranged the loan for the purchase cl the Was hine1on Times His recollection was that Brisbane had solicited the loan
 Feieeaspand also testified that he had arranged financial assistance for
 the Newark, New Jersey, Ledger to
 the extent of Sl50,000 which repre- selted loans at different times. The brewers organizations contributed nc part of this fund. the witness said. | other activities of the brewer also were inquired into by the committee,
 Hugh F. Fox. secretary of tho United | States Brewers association, admitted
 that brewers propaganda had been | published in the International Month
 ly. edited by George Sylvester Nier- eek. once editor of the tatherland n pro German publication. Fox said he did not know at the time the matter
 was published that the Viereck pub-
 lication was inclined toward pro-Ger- manism. but that he has had some suspicion of it since then"
 Questioned further by Major r.
 Lowry Hughes, of the army judge ad lvccate generals department and ceun- sel for the senate committee, Fox said that it was the business of the publi- cation committee cf the brewers as-
 sociation to advertise the products of
 brewers and that in so doing 1t em- Eployed writers 10 "wrlt mp" certain subjects relating 10 the brewers trade Writers named were John Koren, of New York. who wrote matter publish ed in the Atlantic Monthly and whose
 salary was believed by Fox to be 5000
 q year: Dr Edward H. Williams. au | thor of articles published in medical
 and other journals and !. C. Rice
 When Secretary Fox was called
 to the sand he produced on subpoena
 from the committee, a bulky package
 or letters, pamphlets and other docu- 1 ments of the brewers association but Ihad 10 jank checks or stubs.
 He said il had been a long standing practice of the organization to des- i troy these
 The witness disclaimed any person. al knowledge of activity by the as- sociation in political fields in behalf
 of state or national legislative can didates favorable to legislation per
 hitting the use Of beer and lig4t
 wines.
 Fox stated that when the brewers realized that something was break ina besides beer" referring to the pro hibition movement. they endeayored
 to meet it by advocating use 0f beer
 and hght wines It was sought to reach leaders of public thought and also the masses Of the people In both efforts, the witness said. mis- ] takes had been made and, finally the | lpopular propaganda was abandoned and attention centralized on tho lead
 CTS of opinion.
 Major Humes read 10 the committee letters from the files of the brewers | organization in an effort to show tnai
 brewers oreInizataon enrloNsd only union labor and that is office believed by working through the American Federation of Labor and other labor
 oraanizations, it could exercise polit- ical influence.
 1 Other correspondence was produced hy Major Elumes for the purpose of showing that the brewers started d
 boycott against other businesses or
 merchants opposing the manufacture
 of beer.
 The inquiry will be continued to-
 morrow.
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