The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-20

next given. This previously had been published by MT. Brisbane. It sets forth that a number of brewers, including Feigenspan, were ready to loan Bris- bane $500,OQ0 for the purchase and es- tablishnen of 8 newspaper, and that at the end of five years so much was to be repaid as Brisbane determined the business of the paper warranted; that no interest was to be charged, but the loan was to be returned if the pa- per was sold. Mir. Brisbane has stated
 that he declined to accept the loan without interest.
 His only security, Feigenspan de- clares in his statement to the alien property custodian, is the $500 000 note of the Growing Circulation corporation. At the close of the statement George Ehret, Jr., declares that he believes it to be true.
 The alien property custodian makes no comment upon the documents, but simply includes them in letter to Sem
 ator King of Utah, the author of the resolution which cancelled the char ter of the German-American Alliance, and then passes to the two letters by
 Konta to support his charge in his Har- lrisburg speech that "the organized li- quor traffic has been pro-German in fits sympathies" and that these great l interests actually have been willing to | finance great newspapers for the pur-
 pose of spreading German propaganda and sentiment in this country. DOUBT DERNBURG'S VALUE | Konta's letter to Tauscher includes | expressions of doubtful complimentary nature as to Bernard Dernburg's value | as German agent here, but informs Tauscher that at Dernburgs 8 request he has canvassed the prospects of buying 8 newspaper He asked that is possible
 the original be recovered.
 1 The letter to Dernburg, written March l31, 1915 was on the subject of the purchase and publication of a daily newspaper in this country in the inter est of Germany and the government" | It proceeds to discuss various New York newspapers from the point of their suc- cess, proceeding from that to make deductions on the lik kelihood of their ] sale.
 1 The Herald. Telegram, Tribune and 1 World. Konta put out of the reckoning at the outset, because they were part I of great fortunes, and the Times, which
 he reckoned as very prosperous and not for sale. That left in the morning field, he wrote, the Sun, Press, Telegraph and Commercial The Sun, Kont4 wrote Dernburg, had the drawback of not then being a member of the Associated Press, and he did not know if it could 1 be bought The Press (now discon- tinued), he reported, had recently changed ownership land the old own CT was so delighted to get it off his lhands that he made his managing edi- tor & present of $10,000." He expressed
 doubts if the new owners would wish | to sell.
 OTHER PAPERS CONSIDERED The Telegraph, Konta reported, could be bought at any moment" but would "have to be remodeled from be- ginning to end" The Commercial
 Konta described as a mere skeleton"
 and then turning to the evening news paper field, discussed the Post, the Mail
 and the Globe.
 The Post, Konta spoke of in the most flattering terms, but made no comment | on the possibilities of its purchase.
 The price quoted for the Evening Mail 1 by its editor is $1,00o. .O00," he reported. l The sale of the Mail already has re-
 suited in indictments charging failure /, to make proper returns to the alien
 property custodian. Whether the Globe
 could be bought, Konta wrote Dern- berg, was "a matter for cautious in
 quiry.'
 At this point Konta took up the rela- ton of the prohibition agitation to the
 question in hand, and wrote:
 1 Prohibition is seriously occupying the
 minds of the brewers and distillers oi this country. It is not a question of temperance, which they advocate, but
 of the actual prohibition by law of the sale Of beers. wines and liquors. A pa per that would not be hostile of the l personal liberty of the citizen to drink in moderation what he pleased. could count upon the powerful support of the lbrewers and the distillers to commane lillimiatble capital. and. what Is more means of giving the paper in question a circulation large enough to attrac Iadvertisers.
 At no time in the Konta letters ar' Mir. Brisbane or the Times mentioned at all, but Mir. Palmer. it was said, in lcluded the correspondence to prove hi charge that the brewing interests wer'
 furthering German propaganda and tha
 the German alliance was really
 German whisky alliance"
 l WANT TO REACH AMERICANS
 s*In addition to this, . discrect
 appeal to every German society In the country for support by its