New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-10-04
BREWERS FURNISHED THE
MONEY TO FINANCE HEARST'S
MAN BRISBANE AT CAPITOL
Special to State Record.


Washington, October 3,-Having.
driven a wedge into his party in
Pennsylvania, Mitch Palmer, our
partisan Prussian property custodian.
and purveyor of political propaganda
appears to have a fair start in a
similar undertaking in Washington.
1t doesn't matter what public office
Palmer holds, that office is his re-
creation like golf, or fishing, or big
game hunting is to other men, only
Palmer draws a salary for his. Poll
tics is his vocation, his art, his in
dustry, and his job, He is at it
"a hours a day, for when he is not
politically engaged in waking hours
he dreams of wards, counties and
factions in his sleep. Recently Mitch
got considerably het up on the liquor
question, and delivered the following
broadside in Harrisburg:
"Thc facts will soon appear
which will conclusively show that
twelve or fifteen German brew
ers of America, in association
with the United States Brewers
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 pub
Usher, without disclosing whose
money had bought that organ of
public opinion, in the very capital
of the Nation, in the shadow of
the Capitol itself, has been fight
ing the battle of the liquor traf-
fic."
Immediately a New York news
paper hazarded the guess that Palm
err referred to the Washington Times,
conducted by Arthur Brisbane, whose
saffron editorials in the William
Randolph Hearst dailies have for
years given Hearst journalism the
name OF "Yellow Peril. There being
nothing else to do, Arthur verify
acknowledged the corn. He admits
that he borrowed $3750M from c. w.
Feigcnspa, a brewer, although the list
of contributors to this loan. submit
ted by Mr.. Palmer, reads like the
muster-roll of a troop of Prussian
Uhlans. These gentlemen naturally
took a parental interest in the long
evity of the brown October, and,
doubt much to their delight. and
quite in accordance with their eX-
pectations, the publication which was
sickly before Brisbane took
its case, has since improved to a
point best described as "ale-ing".
the Palmer charge.
1t so happens that this paper, under
Brisbane, is the foremost champion
Of our acrobatic Secretary, iron-jaw-
ed dictator. and Presidential heir
apparent, William G. McAdoo. The
Brisbane editorials have made of Mac
he sublimated essence distilled from
A compound of Lycurgus, Demosthen-
rs. Horace, Colbert, Napoleon. and
Marx, dropped into the mortar
II Chaos and ground with the pestle
If Time. Brisbane would have us
believe that McAdoo is as incapable
IF error as the Japanese believes his
namesake, the Mikado, to be.
Now Arthur and his paper look for
/ disturbing paving over by al in
luisitive Congressional committee, de-
handed by the prohibitionists, who
vant to know why King Booze is
permitted to support a royal minstrel
Il the very seat of Government, when
We had all been given to understand
hat the heel of Wilson had bruised
he head of the insidious lobby so
hat it would never rear again.
In his death-struggle it would be
perfectly natural for Arthur to cry
his powerful patron, Help me
or | sink in the beer watts
those for whom l have strivenH
it is up to Palmer to
make good his accusation, which he
Gems likely to do. Here Is . hot
oil for a political rumpus. What the
citizens are wondering is, will
he Jones resolution for an investiga-
ion die a-borning, or will there be
hurry-up call for the official white
Hypocrisy knows no keep
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