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the enemies Of Germany, and says the
| embargo conference was particularly ac-
tive In the middle Western States.
Members OF Congress were flooded
with kilograms. all prepaid by the en-
barge conference management. which
was largely financed by the German
Government In September, 1915, Won
Bernstorf communicated to the Foreign
Office In Berlin:
The embargo conference In regard 70
whose fruitful cooperation DR.. Hale can
give information is just about, to enter
upon. vigorous campaign sto secure a
majority in both houses of Congress
favorable to Germany and requests sup
port. There Is no possibility of our
being compromised"
And In January, 1917, the Count sent
this TO the German Foreign Office: ."
Il request authority to pay out $780,
600 TO influence Congress through the
organization you know OF, which can
perhaps prevent war.
'I am beginning in the meantime to act
accordingly. In the above circumstances
a public official German declaration in
favor of Ireland Is highly desirable In
order to gain the support OF Irish here"
The committee says that about this
time members of Congress began to re-
ceive urgent kilograms standing for
peace and against war. The League Of
American Women for strict neutrality
was organized by German propaganda
In Baltimore. DIR. Hale engineered II
and 1t received 100000 from the German
fund for poster advertising.
Tho report says an attempt was made
by the German Government to prove "by
false affidavits OF passengers and those
claiming to be passengers that the Lusi-
tania carried Eins~which were afterward
NJ I'm al 90 ~ al
licity was given TO the claim of the Ger
mans that the Lusitania was armed and
consequently the act of the German SUBJ
marine In sinking her.was justified"
O'Leary Society Explained.
jeremiah OLearys American Truth
Society Is expounded and explained by
the committee at some length.
In March. 1915, Lewis NJ. Hammer
ling, president of the American Associa-
ton OF Foreign Language Newspapers
was approached with a proposal to pub
lish in the foreign language press an
appeal to the American people against
the manufacture and shipment of mu-
nitions to the Allies.
This appeal was prepared and ar
rangements were made to publish It. In
fact. $205.000 was to be paid for it's
publication. Hammerling had sent
agents to munition centres to learn the
nationalities of the workers there The
appeal had an enormous circulation and
was designed to reach the foreign born
element and strengthen the propaganda
against sending munitions to the enemies
OF Germany.
The COMMITTEES concludes this phase
OF its report with the statement:
1T appears from the evidence that
there are several thousand foreign Ian
guage publications In the United States,
of which a large number were unpatri-
otto and disloyal to the United States,
its principles and institutions. and IL has
been established that some Of these were
subsidized by the German and Austrian
Governments. Nor was the foreign Ian
guage press alone responsible for all pro-
German propaganda.
Many newspapers printed in English,
both before and for months after Amer
lea entered the war. while not shown 10
have been actually subsidized nor
charged with actual violation OF the es-
pionage act. persisted In the endeavor.
through editorials. news columns and
cartoons. to create n popular prejudice
against the war and against effectual ac-
ton on the past Of the United States.
The effect of this attitude on the
part of these newspapers was TO encour-
age Germany and German sympsthizers. !"
Had Many Ramacations.
ut would be dlfYfcult to write a full
and complete history of the ramifcations
of the German propaganda in the United
States from the time OF the he0tnnin0 NJ