Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-19
Directs Committee to Get
Documents in Newspaper
Purchase"
JONES OF WASHINGTON
MAKES new CHARGES
Declares Association Has Been Pro.
German and Unpatriotic
in Conduct.

The Senate today adopted resolu-
zion directing the Senate judiciary
committee to inquire into the recent
statement of A. Mitchell Palmer, Gus
+, fodian Of alien enemy property, that a
humber of German brewers had fnanc-
! ed the purchase of newspaper in the
"shadow of the Capitol"
The resolution was introduced by
{ Senator Jones of Washington. one Of the
leading prohibitionists of the Senate.
IT was adopted practically without de-
bate. Senator Jones explaining that the
:. information sought in the resolution
could readily be obtained from Mr..
Palmer, and that he had been assured
It was in documentary form.
Prohibitionists Aroused.
The prohibitionists are aroused over
the matter. and intend to have the sub
ject gone into as for as possible. they
say.
The resolution asserts that the Ger
imam brewers have sought in every way
to create political organization to fur
+, ther their ends, and that they have
1 been allied with the German-American
z alliance. whose charter recently was
1 revoked by act of Congress, and other
f1esolution. which follows:
Text Of Resolution.
whereas Hon. A. Mitchell Pal
mer. custodian of alien property. on
1 or about September IA, made the fol-
flowing statement:
1.-The facts will soon appear which
I will conclusively show that twelve or
| fifteen German brewers of America, in
y association with the United States
Brewers Association, furnished the
hnoney, amounting to several hundred
thousand dollars to buy a great
newspaper in one, of the chief cities
of the nation; and its publishers with
/ out disclosing whose money had
, bought that organ of public opinion,
in the very capital of the nation. in
Ethe shadow OF the Capitol itself, has
been fighting the battle of the liquor
traffic.
when the traffic. doomed though it
is, undertakes and seeks by these Sc
l cret methods to control party nomi-
! nations, party machinery, whole po-
! litical parties, and thereby control
, the government Of state and nation,
1t is time the people know the truth.
Called VICIOUS interest"
'The organized liquor traffic Of the
country is a vicious interest, because
[ It has been unpatriotic, because it has
! been pro-German in its sympathies
{ and its conduct. Around these great
brewery organizations, owned by rich
men, almost all of them, of German
birth and sympathy. at least before
we entered the war, has grown up
the societies. all the organizations OF
German immigrants from becoming
real American citizens.
"It is around the sangerfests and
.sangerbunds and organizations OF
( rich brewers. that the young Ger.
1 mans who come to America are taught
to remember first, the fatherland,
1 and second, America and
! Whereas it has been publicly and
.1Speatedly charged against the United
I States Brewers Association and allied
Fbrewing companies in interests that
] there is in the Department OF Justice
Estates district attorney evidence
3ehowing:
Evidence Of Campaign Funds.
That the said United States Brew
lsers' Association, brewing companies
fyears made contributions to political
s1campaignS on a scale without pre-
scedent in the political history of the
country and in violation of the laws
Spf the land;
That in order to control legisla-
,..fion in state and nation, they have ex-
acted pledges from candidates to Of
S,;6ce. including congressman and United
I4SStates senators. before election, such
:pledgeS being on file;
That. in order to influence public
sDpinion to their ends, they have heav-
s1ly subsidized the public press and
Vertising space with the newspapers
,Ahat a certain amount be editorial
;fSpace. the literary material for the
Space being provided from the brew
fers' central Office in New York:
Accused Of Boycotting.
That. in order to suppress express
sand political interests, they have set
,-sn operation an extensive system Of
9boycotting of American manufacturers,
Anerchants. railroads and other interests;
That. for the furthering of their
political enterprises, they have erect
ed a political organization to carry
.<out their purposes;
That they were allied to powerful
yGerman-American Alliance. whose
charter was revoked by the unani-
Snous vote OF Congress-: the National
Association of Commerce and Labor.
association, and that they have their
ramifications in other organizations
apparently neutral in character.
II Political Surveys Of States.
THAT they have on file political
1sRurveys of states. counties and dis
Stricts tabulating the men and forces
for and against them. and that they
paid large sums of money to citizens
, Of the United States to advocate their
cause and interests, including some in
the government employ.
That they have defrauded the fed
yeral government by applying to their
political corruption funds money
which should have gone to the fed
Aral Treasury in taxes:
That they are attempting to build
up in the country. through the control
of such organizations as the United
Estates societies and by the manipula-
zion of the foreign-language press. q
political influence which can be turn
led TO one or the other party. thus con-
stre1ing electoral results:
tThat they or some OF their organ
Azations have pleaded nole contendre
Alto charges hled against them and
xOontsuued on Second PaSel