The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-23
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER %, 1918.
WHERE THE TRAIL LEADS.

IL ~ MITCHELL 1dIIll6I, dIIGI property CQStO-
dian, never rendered another public service his
work in the exposing of the purchase of the
New York Evening Mail by German interests
and now the revelations concerning Arthur
Brisbane and the Washington Times would
stamp him as great patriotic, loyal American
1t is really no surprise to find Mr.. Brisbane
connected up with the brewery interests, nor to
lind the fountain of his funds used in buying
the Washington Times in a beer vat for Brs-
bane the clever, posing moralist who would
have the souls of everyone, has literally painted
the Hearst newspapers with verbal camouhage
Tor years, deceiving the masses, but never the
few who read between the lines and differen-
tlate between the sheep on the editorial pages
and the wolf in the news items.
Ii the brewing interests in the nation wanted
to buy newspaper there are no particular
reasons why they should not be permitted to do
so but we resent the association of the brewing
interests with pro-German elements in this
country, and Mr.. Palmer openly connects the
two:
The organized liquor traffic of the coun-
try is a vicious interest because it has been
unpatriotic; because it has been pro-Ger-
man in its sympathies and its conduct
Why you and know perfectly well that it
IS around these great brewery organiza-
tons owned by rich men, almost all of
them of German birth and sympathy, at
least before we entered the war, that have
grown up all the societies, all the organiza-
tons OF this country intended to keep
younger men, emigrants, from becoming
American citizens 1t is around the Saen-
gerfests and Saengerbunds and organza-
tons OF that kind, generally financed by the
rich brewers, that the young Germans who
come to America are taught to remember
first, the fatherland, and second, America
This Indictment by Mr.. Palmer resulted in
the United States Senate asking Mr.. Palmer for
his proofs and he furnished them to the salts
faction of everyone
But still more startling than even this reve-
latlon is letter among the documentary proof
furnished by Mr.. Palmer, this letter being writ
ten by Alexander Konta, a German agent, to
Dr. Bernard Dernburg, the chief agent of Ger
man propaganda in this country. The letter is
more than three years old, but it revolving in
the fTankness of its discussion and implications
concerning the press of the nation but shows
the ilnpudence of the German mind, and the
connection between the brewing interests and
German interests. Wonta wrote:
Prohibition is seriously occupying the
minds of the brewers and distillers of this
country 1t is not d question of temper
ance, which, they advocate but of the ac-
tual prohibition by law of the sale of beers.
wines and liquors. A paper that would not
be hostile to the personal liberty of the
citizen to drink III moderation what he
pleased could count upon the powerful sup
port of the brewers and the distillers to
command ilimftable capital and what is
more, means of giving the paper in ques-
ton circulation large enough to attract
advertisers
Add to this discreet appeal to every Ger
man society in the country for support by
It's members, and we could easily count I'D
on national daily circulation of 100000
copies This, to be sure, would be a circu
lation among Germans and German-Ameri-
cans, where's what is wanted is native
American readers, but if this German cir
culation is built up discreetly as | suggest.
M the man in the street will only be impressed
by members. A large diversified circuIa
ton would impress the native American
and lead him to take the paper And,
meanwhile, deficit would be changed into
profit to be used for further propaganda"
The Gazette will not repeat in this col,1mr