Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
BerLin'S Press
Subsidy Failed

Continsied from Pare Ono
general there are here very definite
views. Mr.. Bayard Hale wishes me to
| propose TO you the founding of first
| class weekly, whereas, I. in my report
No. 412, recommended the starting Of
monthly. Personally, l think 1t
entirely depends on whether we make a
happy choice in respect of the editor.
IN this respect we have had very
unfortunate experience with the Times
Mail. Only the future can show
whether we shall have better luck with
| Mr.. Huntington Wright and Mr.. T. Il.
| Lowe.
"No Reticence Here
THE fact of an American newspaper
being subsidized can never be kept
secret. because there is no reticence in
this country. 1t always ends with my
being held responsible for all the
articles OF any such newspaper. This
Is particularly undesirable when. as now,
we are in an electoral campaign of the
bitterest character which is turning
largely upon foreign policy.
II have, therefore with much salts
/ faction to myself, at least, succeeded in
! getting out of all relations with Fair
Play, of Mr.. Marcus Braun. | should
also be glad to be free from the Father
land, which has shown itself to be of
! little value.
1T is particularly difficult in hos
tile country to find suitable persons for
help of this sort, and to this. as we'll
as the Lusitania case. we may attribute
the shipwreck of the German propa-
ganda initiated by Herr Dernburg."
"Fair Play" n Failure
Marcus Braun, a former immigration
inc aIi nf Ia Iui,
This paper, Bielaski told the committee
received numerous subsidies from the
German embassy, the amounts ranging
from $1,000 to $4,000.
The Bernstorff communication to Ber-
lin announcing reorganization of his
propaganda after the Lusitania sinking
as decoded by the Department of Jus
tice, was read as follows:
AS you will have learnt from my
previous report, VIC have. since the
Lusitania case. endeavored to wind UP
all the so-cal,ed German propaganda
and especially to get rid of all dubious
( individuals. 1 can now say, with a good
conscience, that we are no longer
compromised Some Of the old affairs
| still hang on, but we are more or less
settled. although they will cause some
future expenditures.
/ AT the beginning of the war, many
things were undertaken by the Dern-
burg propaganda which would never
have been undertaken II we could have
seen that the war would be so long be-
cause nothing can for long be kept
secret in America.
Since the Lusitania case, We have
strictly confined ourselves to such prop
! uganda as cannot hurt US if 1t becomes
| known. The sole exception is. perhaps,
! the peace propaganda, which has cost
us the largest amount, hut which also
! has been the most successful.
"Latterly, have been using the en-
| barge association and some entirely
! reliable private Intermediates
"T have also made use OF the German
/ University League. founded since the
war. This has done it's best to take
the place of the German CD Associa-
tion (word not deciperable). which has
been of no use during the war on ac-
count Of its management. The league
has published. under my collaboration,
an excellent collection of reports on the
war, which will be of great service to
! our cause
"Unscrupulously Independent"
|. referring to J. F. J. Archibald. Bic
laski said he started to Germany and
Austria as representative of the
Wheeler Syndicate, bearing letters from
Count Won, Bernstorff and Captain Won
| Papen, saying he was an 'unscrupul-
ously independent journalist" and that
! he was going to Germany and Austria
to gather fresh impressions" Archi-
bald's connection with the Wheeler Syn
dictate ceased. however. according to the
witness, when his articles became 50
pro-German that the papers associated
with the syndicate refused to print
them.
Other writer's alleged to have been
on the pay roll of the German en-
bassy are William Warram, associate
editor of Freedom, a foreign language
publication at Cleveland. Theodore f.
Lowe, editor of the National Courier,
Washington, received $4,000 from the
Germans during the papers short life
and Louis Garthe, Washington corre-
spondent of the Baltimore American was
a regular contributor to the Courier.
A detailed account of the organiZa-
tion and activities of the American En-
barge Conference. which was formed in
1915 to stop shipment of war supplies
from this country to the Allies, by SO
arousing feeling among the voters as to
compel legislative action being taken
was given by Bielaski.
Senators Are Named
In a report Of the conference, writ
ten by G. M. Jacobs, of Chicago, acting
chairman, and made to William Bayard
| Hale as q member of the executive com.
mittee. 1t was stated that former Sena-
tor Works. of California; Senator
Smith, Of Georgia, and Senator Hitch.
cock, of Nebraska. chairman Of the For.
eign Affairs Committee, supported the
principles of the conference.
Later, Bielaski read a communication
signed by Senator Hitchcock, stating
he would do all in his power, both as a
Senator and as editor of the Omaha
World-Herald, to bring about an EN-.
barge on arms.