The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-02-24
Senate Witness Arraigns
100000 Men in German
American Alliance,
CHIEF AIM DISLOYALTY
Financed by Secret Teutonic
Mcans-SOught to Destroy
Our National Spirit.
!Spsciai DeSp0tch to THE SrN.


American Alliance. claiming member
ship of 100000 or more persons in the
United States. thousands OF whom arc
nsturalized American citizens and n
considerable percentage native born
Americans, to-day was denounced before
the King subcommittee Of the Senate
Committee on the Judiciary as the core
Of the Kultur canker in the American
body polite.
Gustavus Ohlinger. Toledo attorney,
uttered the indictment. and Senators OF
the subcommittee were astounded at
the frankness with which he described
the plottings and treachery of these
self-constituted agents of Kaiserism.
The allegations pronounced by Mr..
Ohlinger In his opening statement con-
vinced Senators that the time had ar
rived for the most searching investiga-
ton. Senator King tUtah). chairman
OF the subcommittee. has bill pending
III Congress looking to the forcible dis
rupt!on OF the German American ALI
ance. Its favorable report as result of
the investigation only thus far pursued
is freely predicted
Cardinal PurpOSes OF Alliance.
SIX purposes were set down by Mr..
ohlinscr as the fundamental reasons for
tho existence OF this inimical organiZa-
ton in war time. They are
To consolidate all Germans in the
United States into one economic. po-
litcal and social bloc
To arouse antagonism of race and
thereby insure closer unity Of Ger
mans in America.
10 scatter propaganda inspired by
the Imperial German Government
broadcast throughout the American
republic.
20 foment opposition to the policies
OF tie United States Government.
To further the aims and plots OF
disloyrI persons. parties and organiza-
tioE- In this country.
TO A&itate resistance to the prohibi-
ton os -t,ne-nsa;, OF alcoholic stimu-
lan,s throughout the United States.
The climax Of Mr. Ohiinger's arra.gn-
n.eut Was reached when he charged
that through secret and unknown cham
'ols the funds necessary to the upkeep
Q. the organization were obtained.
is Il your inference that the German
American Alliance obtains money from
olsioyai sources here" demanded Sem
s'or King.
"Tha, is exactly what I do mean to
infer" replied Ohlinger. Their funds
cone TO them from persons and parties
whose interests are actively against the
United states. II the committee will pur-
SUE this investigation l am sure II will
develop much enlightenment on this
tuhjeCt."
kaiser Honored Alliance Head.
{. J. Hexamer. who was president OF
the German American Alliance. so the
witness testified. had been "honored" in
1906 by Kaiser Wilhelm H. with the
Pru'san Red Eagle OF the Fourth Glass
for the spreading OF German Kultur"
IN the United States.
Citations from the official bulletins
Of the alliance. circulated only among
'ts loyal adherents. were read bv Mr.
Ohlinger in which German Americans
were urged to vote "only for the friends
Of Germanism." 1t was shown that when
the iseues OF the Presidential campaign
~ 1916 were in the formative period
the German American Alliance had un-
dertaken to line up its membership
against American statesmen supposedly
Of Entente Ally sympathies, Theodore
Roosevelt had been the central objec-
'ye OF this movement. but President
Wilson. whose utterances up to that time
had not taken the shape OF such definite
denunciation OF the German policies as
had Col. Roosevelt's, also was included
in the list OF Americans to be opposed.
The witness declared that the conver-
sion of America. as planned by the Ger
man American Alliance. was exactly
What had been an actually completed
work in the instance Of Austria-Hun-
gary
'lf the war had not interviewed the
conversion of America into a satellite
nation OF kaiserdom would have been
perfected" said Mr.. Ohlnger. THE war
nae been Americas salvation"
Earlier in the testimony Senator King
asked the witness what stimulated
you 70 make study Of the Alliance"
studied German Activities.
My Interest in European world poll
YES when | pract!sed> law in Shanghai
IA ls04-5." answered Mr. Ohlinger. 81
appeared before the German extraterri-
'or'il courts, | visited the German
.''pny OF Faiuchai and noted the ac-
''.'ies Of the consuls. These activities
extended even to influencing mission
ares.
One missionary society had been
~
ported IN Shanghai Province by the Ger
n'h Government. Germany's activities
were apparent everywhere found
Nh'h got back to my own country that
m'Pagand1 was at work here too. and
IF'lnan military preparation against
me nited states was as plain a It had
"'eN IN the Orient"
@ 40 you quite mean that?" asked
senator sterling IS D..
say 1t advisedly." was Mr. Ohling-
answer "iermany's military prep
'Fdtons against the United States be-
t'H twenty years ago. And 1t was be-
81" III the United States II was a
W'haganda TO destroy national unity
ItoNeh infiltration OF thought. That
~ 'Ae plan Of the German General Stan.
MA II Is what We must fight agains.
tHe United States, A nation cannot
nbh; without a flaming spirit. Germany
"IN nearly succeeded in destroying this
,'F' lew years ago in the United
S'a'cs.'