The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-18
Records Show Them 1.-Two of a
Kind"
Modified Pro-Germanism Seems
Reviving
Want Foreign Languages in the
Schools
LAW DEFIANCE PLANNED
Brewer Whoops Deutschland
Ueber Allies"
SIT Was in Beer Drinking Coun-
tries That Personal Liberty
Reached Its Flower and Per-
lection"


charge tina. their business has been
closely identified with the kaiser's in
terests in America despite the fact
that the Senate investigation of pro-
German activities brought out conclu-
sive proof of this. Since that investi-
CATION the big brewers have not been
SO openly friendly to Germany, but
now there is tendency to again bold
ly ally themselves with pro-Gcrman
propagandists.
Evidence of this was seen in the ac-
tion taken by the United Societies in
annual convention in Chicago recent
ly, an organization composed largely
of Germans, which societies passed
resolution dcnouncing the Eighteenth
Amendment to the constitution and
demanding that foreign languages be
taught in the public schools of Chi
eago.
A later instance is noted in an inter
view which is going the rounds of the
press with John L. Kuser, Trenton
brewer. Kuser, it is said, is positive
in his assertion that he will continue
to make and sell beer regardless of
the constitution, courts, Congress or
any other power that may be invoked
against him. He thinks he has preces
dent for law defiance, declaring that
there is a law against publishing news
papers in Trenton on Sunday, but
papers are published, and that it is
against the law to run street cars in
Trenton on Sunday, but that street
cars are operating.
Following the statement that all the
beer drinking countries are on the
top, the reporter asked him to explain
Germany's present predicament, REL
minding him that Germany has always
been held up as the ideal beer drinking
country. The reporter suggested that
Germany isinot a Prohibition country
and that it went to the devil, too
"Oh, mol Germany didn't go to
the devil. Oh, mol" Kuser answered.
Little Germany licked the whole
world except the United States. Lit
tie Germany, I. little bit of country,
licked them all. She licked Russia,
she licked Italy, she licked France and
she licked England. Little Germany
had them all licked until we came in
and licked her. If it hadn't been for
us little beer-drinking Germany would
have licked the world. Of course,
know where Germany is now and
what they say about the Germans
now, but that don't alter the fact that
little beer-drinking Germany was
more efficient than any of them; she
was ahead of them in industry and
commercially were better people
all round"
"But isn't the point about beer
drinking Germany that all she cared
about was eat. drink and be merry,
and let the kaiser run the country un-
til he ran it to the devil?" he was ques-
toned. WAS not the trouble about
beer-drinking Germany that all she
cared about was good time, and that
she did not take part in her govern
went and stuGy It seriously enough,
so long as she could eat, drink and be
merry"
"Oh, mol She believed in eating,
drinking and being merry all right and
besides that, if you take woman, drink
and food from man, what is there
left to live for1 l wish we had a
Wilhelm, or whoever did it for Ger
many, getting her the worlds COM
merce. Wilhelm brought the worlds
commerce to Germany, and if she had
gone on little longer she would have
had it all despite all the smart men
they have in England. Where were
they all while Germany grabbed up
the worlds commerce? That's what
the war started about. Germany was
getting the world trade.
"But, regardless of everything they
say about the Germans, now that the
United States has licked them, look
at the Germans in southern Germany
They were not at ali like the Prus-
slams These southern Germans, the
Bavarians, were as fine people as you
could find anywhcre-quiet, industri-
Gus, beer drinkers every one of them,
but you never saw them drunk"
~But beer-drinking Bavaria was
willing to be ruled by an idiot and
maniac king, Ludwig and Otto.
That's how much interest they took in
their government, suggested the re-
porter.
"But those countries were monarch
les and they believed in kings" OBJ
jected Kuser. "But they had their
personal liberty and that is a whole
lot more than here"
Nskess