New-York tribune., 1918-11-22
Senate Learns How Scheme
to Form Big Machine
Was Financed
Convention Address
Read Into Records
Bank Deposit Statements
Show Maltsters Raised
$4,367,604 Fund
Tribune WASHINGTON Bureau


tention to form a vast po ..tical machine
which should insure the financial and
political cooperation of the men with
whom they did business, should work
with and through hpyhenates of t he
country, and should remain dominant
force in American public life for gen.
erations, was disclosed in the hearing
to-day on the Brewers Brisbane propa-
ganda situation.
The disclosure came when Major E..
Lowry Humes, counsel to the Senate
committee which is conducting tn
hearings, read into the records the ad-
dress Of Percy Andrea before the
brewers convention IN 1913.
AS result of this address, in which,
as G.. w. Feiganspan declared, Andrea
"hynotized" the convention. Andrea
was appointed at salary of $4,000 a
year to carry out the plans he here out
lined. He is the man who paid some
$4,000 to the National German-Amer-
lean Alliance, whose charter has been
revoked by Congress for disloyalty, and
some 100000 to Louis N. Hammerling,
who has confessed that he spent
$205,00O in pro- German propaganda for
DR.. Rumely, the Kaiser's editor of "The
New York Evening Mail"
Fund Totals $4,367,604
Other facts brought out concerned
the funds used by the brewers, and
came from statements of their bank
RI 0ntt fo~ 1,,f
TO the destruction of records these
statements do not disclose the entire
financing of the United States Brewers
Association.
AS they stand they show the follow
ing totals: 1913, $6O4,20290 deposited
by the association; 1914, 81, ,404 ,485.24;
1915, s1,049, ,091.O7; 1916 (records de-
!: stroyed at about the time grand jury
proceedings were instituted in Pitts
burgh), $96,165.44; 1917, s74S,659.4S B;
! 1918, $465 900; total, $4,367 ,6O4.48
the various state associations, whose
total has not been even approximated I'd
at the hearings. A letter from G. W.
Feigenspan, one of the men who gave
financial backing to Brisbane and the
buyers of "Hhe Montgomery Advertise
er" and has put $15O,000 into "The
! Newark Ledger" showed that in New
Jersey alone the State Brewers Asso-
citation had raised $205,07 in 1915, 1916
and 1915
Two Speeches Cited
AS a supplement to Mr.. Andre@'s ad-
dress in the executive session Of the
U. S. B. A., Major Humes put into the
record his address at the meeting at
which the National Association of Com
merce and Labor, which he organized to
carry out his schemes, was being
formed. The excerpts which follow are
taken from both speeches.
In both Andrea emphasized the use
which the brewers could make of the
hyphenates and their value to the "wet'
cause if properly organized and in
structcd. He said:
Il was discussing quite recently with
the head OF certain organization in
this country that counts It's members
by the million this question of organi
zatlon. In the course of our conver-
sation / asked this gentleman: is it
not fact that in spite of the number
of your members, three millions-I dc
not wish to mention any names (the
National German-American Alliance
has, by strange coincidence, claimed
three million members, and has worked
with the brewers i'm spite Of the num-
Der of your members and in spite OF
their enthusiastic allegiance to the
cause for which your organization
stands, which is the cause cf persona
liberty, is it not fact that not 10 pei
; cent possess sufficient knowledge tc
, enable them to vote for the right mer
in their own localities when election
time comes?'
Guaranteed 100 Per Cent
"'Unfortunately,' he said, 1T is no.
10 per cent. 1t is scarcely per cent.
IL then inquired whether with the
means and methods o. organization
such as l had outlined to him the per
centage could not be raised to 30 pei
cent. He answered with great EN-
phasis- brought his fist down on thu
table and said: MIR. Andrea, with the
methods that you suggest I will guar
antoe 100 per cent
IF | asked you to state who are tht
: best, the strongest and the shameless
friends our industry possesses in thi.
country, you could give me oply on.
! correct answer Andrea said Vat an
other time.
"They are the millions and million,
of falsely described foreign citizens
Do you realize that the great
est disaster that could overtake ou,
. industry to-day would be the loss o.
> the gradual disappearance of thos,
broad ideals Of life, that passionat,
love of personal freedom, that sturd,
spirit of individual independence ant
that hatred of cant and hypocrisy which
these millions and millions of men O
German, Austrian, Bohemian, Sws
and other descent or which their faith
f ers before them brought over with then
t from the old country?
Depended Upon Foreigners
"What keeps these ideals
1 alive in those people to-day? On
: thing, and one thing only. The Ian
guage in which they learned to formu
late their views of life and their IDEAL
+ Of citizenship and manhood.
Gentlemen, tell you that the death o
every foreign language newspaper i,
3 this country, with few solitary cxceo
. tions, means the removal of a stone il
the foundation on which our industr,
is built"
II want to tell you that as long al
! we live and our children and our chill
:. drens children live, you will have t,
! have an organization, and provide ,
certain amount Of money out of tn.
earnings Of the businesses connected
with our industry and our industry it
SELF, in order to fight the enemy-~th
organized enemy Of our trade, which i
the enemy Of anything that the Al
mighty has placed within the reach o
man In the way Of joys and pleasures.
Hugh +. Fox, secretary Of tho u. S
: b. A., when he was on the stand spcn
considerable time and effort in Nv