Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-12-12
TRtAGHtRY OF
THE BREWERS

en- by DR.. w. j. Johnson, secretary OF
the Board of Temperance of the Pres
byterian church, U. S. A. The dis
course was unusually clear, we'll
planned and conclusive, and was de-
livered in an emphatic, convincing
manner. Following are some of the
points brought to the audiences atten-
ton:
The brewers of America are the fin
ancial supporters of the disbanded
German-American alliance, which has
always been fostered by the ex-kaiser.
This alliance was incorporated by con-
gress upon presentation by Congress
man Bertholdt, of Missouri, repre-
sentative of the Anhauser-Busch Brew
ing Co. of which the kaiser is the
principal stakeholder. The object Of
the German-American alliance was:
1. To make America tributary to
Germany.
2. To prevent the Americanization of
Germans in America.
3. To Germanize foreigners in Amer
lea who are not Germans.
4. To de-Americanize Americans and
to Germanize them.
5. To break down the American re-
public and to- substitute constitution
al monarchy.
The first emigrants from Germany
landed in America from the ship Con-
cord, 225 years ago. They made ex-
n1pin &c hn m
stance of the German Lutheran past
or, Muhlenburg, who stepped from his
pulpit, threw off his pastors robes,
disclosing colonel's uniform, and led
four hundred men from his congrega-
ton into the ranks of the patriots of
the Revolutionary War.
The speaker, when visiting the home,
of General Grant, talked with the GUS
todian, a Civil War veteran, of sew
enty-six years.
"You would fight in this war if you
could, would you not? And, German
as you are,s you would fight against
the Germans?'
The old man at once responded, 81
was born in Germany, but l am Amer
lean, not German. [ was wounded at
Shiloh, and lost much blood. All the
German blood ran out of mel"
But there are Germans in America
who are not Americans. An officer Of
the American League Of Defense was
boasting recently that he had secured
a map showing all the pro-German
districts which were causing so much
trouble His map proved to be "wet
and dry" map, and his pro-German
districts were the wet sections of the
states!
When money was to be raised for
German propaganda in March, 1913, a
tax was placed on beer, and each man
who purchased a glass of beer helped
on the traitors.
In one of the kaiser's speeches, he
said that, through the German-Amer-
lean alliance, American politics were
subservient to him. DR.. Hexamer,
president of the alliance, is on record
as saying that the present form of
government in America is failure;
monarchy in the United States.
The kaiser tried to plant Germany
in Texas, he tried it in Arkansas, but
it wouldn't work in the south. He
tried it in Wisconsin, a Sweet morse"
to him, and here he almost succeeded.
The public school was his weapon.
Through the schools, he expected to
mold thought, introduce generally the
German language, eventually secure
control of the courts. In Milwaukee
practically every child was compelled
to study German from the first grade
on. In Nebaska, typical state, there
ere 127 school studying German when
we entered the war. The speaker add
ed that these facts made him "tlwce
mad
81 am mad when | think of their
abomnible scheme to sap our Amer
icanism through our public schools,
and | am mad when | realize that we
Americans were fools enough to let
them do it"
He added that he was glad the war
commenced in 1914 and not in 1924,
because by that time we would have
been lost. And the brewers are the
heart and soul of this treachery, they
are the bankers for the alliance. Our
sons went to Europe to dethrone kais-
erism. What are we doing at home
to dethrone brewerism, the kaiser's
agent in America? We helped France
and England to free themselves from
the menace of Germany. Yet Lloyd
George says that drink is greater en-
envy to England than Germany is. The
brewers, cast out of America, are max
ing for Mexico South America and
China. Shall we allow them, and
through them, kaiserism, to prey upon