The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-10-04

speech. The following Is Mr.. faiine
New York Times OF Sunday, Septeml
at is time that the people OF this
nation and OF this state awakened. By
messenger, secretly, without allow
ing the people TO know the truth, the
organized liquor traffic of the state,
through its secret conduit, seeks TO
fool the people into the belief that
the Democratic party is fighting for
personal liberty; when as matter of
fact, its candidate is the instrument
and tool OF this same liquor traffic.
With the truth told, no harm can be
done the people, and the truth must
be told
Agrees to Offer Proof
Let me say to you, as an illustra-
ton OF the lengths to which these in
terests will go, that the facts will soon
appear which will conclusively show
that twelve or fifteen German brew
ers OF America. in association with
the United States Brewers Associa-
ton, furnished the money. amounting
10 several hundred thousand dollars,
to buy a great newspaper in one OF
the chief cities OF the nation; and its
publisher. without disclosing whose
money had bought that organ OF pub
hn nj
nation, in the shadow OF the Capitol
itself, has been fighting the battle Of
the liquor traffic. Ihat none was
?laced there under methods and by
oontrivances cleverly designed 20 keep
secret forever who it was that Pat the
money into that great newspaper and
the purposes for which it was there.
Now, | say to you that when this trail
hc, doomed though it is. undertakes
and seeks by these secret methods TO
control party nominations, party ma
chinery, whole political parties, and
thereby control the government of
state and nation, it is time that the
people knew the truth, and it is time
that we as Americans, as Pennsyl
vanians and as Democrats, stand for
the truth, no matter who gets hurt in
the process.
"And | say another thing which is
appropriate to be said at this time in
this great hour of the country's emer-
gency, that the organized liquor traffic
of the country is vicious interest be-
cause it has been unpatriotic; because
it has been pro-German in its sympa-
thies and its conduct.
Saengerfests Accused
"Why, you and know perfectly well
that it is around these great brewery
organizations owned by rich men, al
most all OF them Of German birth and
sympathy. at least before we entered
the war, that has grown up to the soci-
cites, al the organizations OF this
country intended to keep young Ger
man immigrants from becoming real
American citizens. 1t is around the
!, saengerfests and the saengerbunds
and organizations of that kind, gem
orally financed by the rich brewers,
that the young Germans who come
to America are taught to. remember
first the Fatherland and second Amer
ica. You remember the exposure OF
the German-American Allia n e
brought out first by Mr.. Humes in
Pittsburgh, and afterward in Congress
when the Senate Of the United States
revoked its charter because Of its dis
loyal conduct. 1t was a German
whisky alliance, and everybody knows
it. know that these great interests
have actually been willing to finance
great newspapers for spreading Ger
man propaganda and sentiment in this
country
Very soon after the passage of the
Senate resolution asking Mr.. Palmer
to present proofs OF the assertions
made in his speech, he presented the