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Show sp 1 sp sp THE DONKEY'S OWN SON. IN his Harrisburg speech, which was followed by Senator Jones' resolution for an investigation of the sources of propaganda in favor of the German brewing interests, A. Mitchell Palmer said: "What have we as the Democratic party tried to show? How have we justified our continued existence in this state? Why, the thing that we have been fighting is, and we have attempted to show, time after time, to the people of our state that the Republican party has made itself the willing tool of vicious interests, secretly seeking to control the government through the agency of their political machine and deceiving the people into the belief that the Republican effort was a patriotic effort to govern instead of selfish effort to accomplish the selfish and greedy ends of these special interests." As an illustration of the lengths to which these interests will go Palmer uncovered the fact that several of the big German brewing interests had contributed to the editor of the Washington Times $407,500, and the editor wrote voluminously in favor of the retention of beer and light wines as articles ar-ticles of consumption, and condemned the prohibition inclusion of those intoxicants. This editor was Arthur Brisbane, for years the editor of the New York Journal, the brains of the Hearst machine, and a Democrat with a decided leaning toward socialism. The Democratic Dem-ocratic party must have enjoyed mighty little satisfaction from such an expose as that. Brisbane, ever since he took over the Washington Times, has been sounding the praises of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, whose ambition to become president is frequently commented com-mented on. Back the Yanks in the tanks buy Liberty Boncfs! ""-., , . Buy and keep Liberty Bonds. .L.. . s |
