The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-03-01
CEI......,.. \ ALLIANCE:
is GREAT MENACE
i. S, Senators Are Toll Of
Its Activities.
KAISER'S TOOLS EXPOSED
Milwaukee Editor Quotes DR.. Hsxa-
mer, of Philadelphia, as Urging a
;kenarchy Here.
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Washington, March 1.-The great
est inteSnal menace in this. country
is tne National German-American AL
| lance" Henry c. Campbell. assistant
| edi or of the Milwaukee Journal, told
the senate judiciary subcommittee
which is investigating the activities
Of the alliance.
A mass of damning evidence collect
ed by Mr.. Campbell and presented to
the senate committee, corrobo-ated,
without overlapping the testimony
given earlier in the week by Gustav
US Ohlinger, president of the Toledo
chamber of commerce.
81 am profoundly convinced that
the great body of Americans of Ger
| man extraction are loyal to tie. Unit
ed States" said Mr.. CampbefS<.s1
know full well, however, that the of.
dcers of the alliance, working hand
INLAND with the German-American
exchange professors in this country,
have done their effective utmost to
spread the world domination spirit OF
Germany in this country. The great
majority of the members of the ALI
ance do not realize the sinister pur-
pose for which the organization Is
working"
Campbell spoke particularly Of DR..
c. ]. HeXamer. of philadelphia, for
mer president Of the alliance whose
name has been mentioned in previous
testimony.
Doctor HeXamer has publicly eai1
greatIeal about preserving liberty
in the United States, of maintaining
the right of Individuals" Mr.. Camp
belly said, ESPECIALLY in the office
oY the United States district attorney
in Erie, Pa. March %. 1916" In a
friendly discussion of judicial and
governmental matters, Doctor Hexa.
1her stated:
This form of government is a fail
ure, and the only correct form of
government Is a constitutional mon
arch"
'He also said that the legal system
of Germany was better than that of
this country, and held up the laws of
Germany as a model. He added that
there was more liberty under the laws
Of Germany than under the laws of
this country
Mr.. Campbell gave the committee
the names Of five persons who. Ae
said. heard Doctor Hexamer's state
ment. They were:
e. Lowry Humes. federal district
attorney, of Pittsburgh: D. L. Fraw-
ley, J. r. Dillon and Judge Moon. of
Erie. Pa. and Ed T. Fleming. Ct Phil
adelphia. Humes has been summoned
to testify.
Statements of deep significance
showing the reliance placed on the
German-American Alliance by the
powers in control in Germany were
Translated for the committee from
German works by NJ. Campbell.
He read from "Dcutsch-Amerik
Nobel" or The mobilization Of Ger
man-America. by Karl Juenger, with
a fore word b. Admiral ven Knorr, of
the imperial German navy. This was
published in Berlin and Leipsig in
1915.
In the body Of the book. Juenger
dwells on the po'i-ical power and ac-
tivity Of the Germans in the Unitel
States, praises the work of the ALI
rance and comments joyfullv on the
Irish-Ce~mon alliances in this c9un-
| try as an o~~c.ive stem for creating
Anglo-Amaric@n diasensicn end weak
|@ning Cr09+ Dritain. which country
he conCe1ee to be the only real OBJ
stacle in the way of German world
dominion.