The Washington herald., 1918-11-23
BREWERS MADE USE
OF GERMAN-AMERICAN
ALLIANCE IN POLITICS
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CoNTlNIED FROM PAGE ONE
newspapers with a circulation of ap-
proXimately 10000 Other articles
appearing in the American Leader
signed by Mr.. Hammering. were in
reality written by DR.. Andrea.
In the audits of the accounts Of the
National Association of Commerce
and Labor. the publicity bureau. from
October, 1913. to June. 1915. payment
Of $i2. 633.4l to the German-American
: Alliance and $50, g94,S0 to the American
: Leader, are noted. The American
! Leader was the official publication of
the National Association of Foreign
Language Newspapers Other docu-
mentS show that the Andrea Bureau
paid the alliance an annual allowance
of $4,000. and that organizers from
the bureau were sent to the alliance
/ % secure credentials concealing thei-
connection with the liquor business.
Emphasis in several of the reports
/ Is laid upon the Importance of keep
ing alive the native language of the
foreign born citizens through the for
eign press. Special stress is placed
upon the value of the German lam
Guage to the brewers. and a letter
from the Seminary Endowment Asso-
citation was submitted, asking for
support in order that the association
might have the desired number of
teachers for their German classes.
Show Was n Failure.
Mention is made in the audit of the
failure of THE Passing Of Hans Din
pei to meet expenses. The show
was staged in Cleveland. Toledo, Day
ton. Columbus. GAINESVILLE, Cincinnati
Springfield and st. Louis in 1914. In
supporting the drama" the brewers
seem to have felt that their usual
lavish expenditure of funds would be
wasted. for the expense account for
THE Passing of Hans Dippel" con-
tains items such as, music. $6S; cos
TUNES, $40: chairs and tables, sg1.
John McDermott, of New York.
was the only witness for the brew
ers called yesterday. Mr.. McDer-
mott continued his testimony of the
day before. describing the orGaniza-
tion and management of the organi-
zation bureau of the United States
Brewers Association.
Mr.. McDermott declared that the
organization did not enter individ-
ual- political fights, but admitted
that there had been some activity
Texas and Tennessee.
Maj. Humes asked If the witness
could remember if the organization
had ever paid the poll tax of voters
promising their support. Mr.. Nc
Dermott denied any knowledge of
such arrangements in the States, but
did not reply when Mai. Humes in
formed him that he could produce
documentary evidence of the pay-
ment by the brewers of such taxes.
The attitude of the brewers toward
the suffrage question was defined in a
letter of Hugh F. Fox, secretary of
the association, in which Mr.! Fox
stated that the open hostility shown
by some of the members of the asso-
citation was bad policy, and recon-
mended that the work of the brewers
in opposition to the question be done
in secret, so as not to incur the en-
nifty of the women. d
Agent mt Dry Conference,
The surveillance kept by the brew
ers over othe organizations was indi-
Gated in the report of the activities OF
Miss l. T. Martin. Miss Martin. the
report stated. in 1914 attended the
first conference of Catholics favor /
ing prohibition at Niagara Falls. |
herself as a newspaper
woman. She succeeded in having her !
self elected secretary of the confer |
ence, departed with the minutes and |
never returned, Later. at an Anti-Sa- !
loon meeting at Atlantic City. Miss !
Martin was much worried for feaf the
former delegates to the conference |