The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-21
THE GERMAN BREWERS POLITICS
KULTUR AND THE WASHINGTON TIMES

intense interest has been aroused
over the disclosure ~ the brewery IN
t*fest in financing the wasbing ron
Ila7eS, y hose editor. Arthur Brisbane.
ardent advocate If beer and light
" mes, declares that publication Is all
his very own.
The exposure started at a meeting Of
the democratic state committee of
pennsylvania, which refused 10 give
IT'S endorsement to Eugene G. Bonni-
well. nominee in The party primaries as
the democratic candidate for governor.
II was shown that Gonuiweil had made
a bipartisan deal with the liquor in.
terests of the state. whose princfpai
political agent is United states Senator
penrose.
4. Mitchell Palmer Is democratic ma
uonai committeeman for Pennsylvania.
lie Is also alien property custodian.
handling for the government the prop
efty OF Germans and Austrians in this
country. Mr. Palmer disclosed the ma
ture of the political activities Of the
hquor crowd In his own state and. in
c.dentally, referred to their larger ac-
dFtties on behalf Of beer and kaiser
ism. Among other things. he said:
Let me say tn you as an illustration
OF the lengths to which they will 60,
the facts VIII soon appear which Will
conclusIvely show that twelve or If
teen German brewers of America in as
ISOLATION with the United states Brew
ers association. furnished the money.
amounting to 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 public opinion. in the very capital
or the nation, In the shadow of the
capitol itself, has been fighting the bat
tie of the liquor traffic. That money
was placed there under methods md by
conrivances cleverly designed to keep
secret forever who IL was that put the
money into that great newspaper and
the purposes for which it was there.
Now, ! say to you that when this traf-
fic. doomed though it is. undertakes and
seeks by these secret methods TO con-
troll party nominations. party ma
chinery. whole political parties, and
thereby control the government OF state
and nation. it is time that the people
know the truth, and it is time that we
as Americans -Pennsylva mans and
as Democrats stand for the truth no
matter who gets hurt in the process
And / say another thing whicn is
appropriate to be said at this time in
THIS great hour of the ceuntry's emer.
aencr. i say another thing; that the
organized liquor traffic Of the country
is vicious interest because it has
been unpatriotic. because il has been
pro German in its sympathies and its
conduct. Why, you and I know per-
fectly well that it is around these
great brewery organizations owned by
rich men. almost all of them of Ger
man birth and sympathy. at least be-
fore we entered the war. that have
grown up all the societies, all the or
CARNATIONS of this country intended to
keep younger men, emigrants from be-
coming American citizens. 1t lis 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. America.
You remember the exposure OF the Ger
man American alliance. brought seat
drst by Mr.. Humes. of Pittsburg, Pa.
and afterwards in congress. when the
senate of. the United States revoked it's
charter because of its disloyal conduct.
1t was a German whiskey alliance and
everybody knns3a IL know that these