The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
ElTANllAA ecurMr
timer Caused Plan OF Ger
hg o Propaganda In United
|n'' states to be Fa''- :.

leased wire service.l
d TETON sT Dec. 7.-German
shin G,l,,,tiated by DR.. Dernberg
saa ao"ntry failed largely because
co siug Of the Lusitania and Pc
snk ,tahle editor for q pro-Ger-
could not be found.
basement auul according to evil
lsSyealed today by A. Bruce BEL
- Berlin Nov. /. 1915,
o. Bernstorff said ina. s tue
Propaganda had been most su'
10 and receipts. tending to
a asst braun, editor Of FAR ray
tas = number OF checks from
'ed and the German embassy,
f@ nr,,tted. One Of these was for
sup, a another for $1,000 ana one
s sM1 The checks in most cases
l'aVv. ont to the "Fair Play Print
maui p,,blishing company" BielasN
ID ,,d not know that Braun ever
h ~ mo money from Bernstorff on his
nal account. s,aoss;or
. san Of Theo. Lowe, who ne
.nh,ished in washington a paper
pu .hs National Courier"
,,ski read letters Lowe wrote
s ln ordering that his esteem
.udaAdo something to prevent the
' dvinp after Bernstorff left TINS
- Ne read other letters from
- Dr. Albert, German financial
" the United States for Louis
- washington correspondent, or
us' American, to meet Al
.,a pielaski said, contributed
|ially to loves paper.
4 was entirely without the know
If Garthe's employers OF the
more America, Bielski said.
know that paper vas Thoroughly
j. said Senator Nelson.
committee today invited Pro.
bushnell Hart, of Harvard
.t,fv tuesday. Hart was one OF
named in the 'list of important
roso that German propagand1sts
Il country regarded as friendly to
German cause.
h, Bayard Hale, former represen.
1. par,;n NJ the New York
Ican suggested to Ambassador
Estorff that a first class weekly be
hlisbed for purposes of propagan.
according to evidence submitted
blelaskl.
| letter in code, under date OF Octo-
N 1916. from Bernstorff to the
en office in Berlin describes the
and Bernstorffs doubt as to the
4 Of a weekly. AS decided it read:
4 10 the value Of weekly papers
Isneral there are very different
i Mr. Bayard Hale wishes me to
kcse to you the founding Of a first
weekly, whereas, I, in my re-
! recommended the starting OF a
lilly.
Personality think 1t entirely de-
Is upon whether we make a hap.
khoice in respect to the editor. IN
respect we have had a very ull'
tortable experience with the
kes-Mail.'
Dnly the future can show whether
shall have better luck with ME-
btington Wright and T. z. Lowe.
The fact of an American newspa'
being subsidized can never be kept
let because there is no reticence
bis country. 1t always ends with
being held responsible for all ar
3 Of any such newspaper. This is
6cularly undesirable when as now
Are in an electoral campaign which
turning largly upon foreign policy
have therefore, with much salts
bon to myself at least, succeeded
|getting out of all relations witt
d Play of Mr.. Marcus Braun,
\ also be glad to be free from the
|herland which has shown itsel
be Of so little value. 1t is particular
fficult in hostile country to fine
Fsble persons for help Of this sor
to this, as well as the Lusitanls
!, we may attribute the shll
kk of German propaganda initiated
Herr Dernberg."
Activities Of Archibald.
DISTINCTION, Dec. 7.-Activitie!
James F. Archibald, American
lnalist, were gone into today b!
Bruce Bielaski, of the department
Justice, at the senate propagand;
lestigation.
(rchibald is the man who was de
Ped by British authorities ant
fd to be carrying letters for Vol
zen and DR.. Dumba. then Austrian
passador to the United States
5 incident led to Dumba's recall
Pelaski submitted a receipt signet
Archibald under date of April q
\ 1t acknowledged payment o
FW Dy the German embassy II
fhington.
Echibald left for Germany AM
Eria on August 20, 1915, unde
Ffact to write for a syndicat
Eerning conditions in the centra
Pires Bielaski said that, I'm
I'm to his employers, Archibald
arranged to give copies of hi
Eles to German officials. TIL
Feies were so pro-German tina
eencan newspapers refused then
Archibald's employers dismisse
l letters read by Bielaski showed
lchioald also carried to Europ
uemorandum suggesting can
sa among Austro-H Hungarian mt
soa workers in this country, Bic
y said. Reading from this memo
luum, Bielaski said that it SUI