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Says Germans!
Have Platinum
Control Here
Rainey Charges New York
Agent Advises U. S. War
Industries Board
Accuses Jewellers
Of Profiteering
Peclares "Protective Asso?
ciation" Misled Govern?
ment as to Supply
WASHINGTON, June 7.?The plati
m supplies of this country are con?
oced by German interests, so Repre?
sentative Rainey, of Illinois, charged on
A(f?oorof the House to-day. He further
Ujerted that tho Kaiser's game is be?
fe boosted by the Jewelers' Vigilance
?emittee, which defeated an attempt
b impose a prohibitive tax on plati
BB!nin jewelry and conducted a nation-j
ride c ampaign to encourage the use |
!? jewelry of this metal needed so;
badly for war purposes.
The Illinois member charged the War !
Trade Board is is "badly advised" as to :
platinum, and he connected up with this i
???vice Charles Engetnara. who, he said,
controls absolutely the four firms which :
control SO per cent of the platinum
business of the United States. Engle- I
hard, he said, was born in Germany:
and married a daughter of W. C. He- i
raeus, head of the largest platinum
turn in the world. Heraeus is in busi- ?
?ess, Mr. Rainey said, at Hanau, Ger- \
?m&r.y, and has six sons in the German ?
army.
",\ few weeks after our entry into
*ar," said Mr. Rainey, "I supported ;
on this floor an amendment to the war
revenue bill proposed by Representa?
tive Longworth to tax jewelry com?
posed in whole or in part of platinum '
250 per cent.
High Tax Defeated
"This proposition was defeated by
the Jewelers' Vigilance Committee.!
The Jewelers' Vigilance Committee was
organized about the time of our entry
into the war for the avowed purpose
of protecting jewelers of the country
in the manufacture and sale of lux- :
ones again?; war taxes that might be
deemed by them to be excessive. The
first thing the vigilance committee did
was to establish here in this capital
the most forceful and aggressive lobby
I have ever seen he*-e.
"They represented that we got our
supply of platinum from Russia, that
Russia ^as our ally ?n this war and
that Russia would soon permit un?
restricted platinum shipments to the
United States. They insisted we had
til the platinum we needed for war
purposes and plausibly called atten?
tion to resolutions adopted by jewel?
ers' organizations pledging the supply
of platinum would be materially aug- j
mer.ted.
Pledged Patriotic Aid
"They pledged themselves to assist
the government in bringing the war to
a successful conclusion. A letter was
read in the House from Secretary Red
field commending the jewellers for
their patriotic stand and approving
their promises. The platinum tax
amendment failed.
"More than four years have elapsed
since this awful world war started, but
daring that period no nation has pro?
duced profiteers more unpatriotic,
?hose efforts have beer, more uncon?
scionable, than the Jeweller's Vigi
^r.ce Committee, and the 400 jewellery
Mtab?Bhrnents in the United State's
?ntributing, which havj sustained
their, with funds.
"The promised efforts of the jewel?
lers of the country to conserve plati?
num failed miserably: Platinum con?
tinued to increase in value, until to?
day the government has rlaced on it a
value cf $105 an ounce. Those jewel?
lers who held the platinum stocks of
we country, and those dealers who
held large stock's without effort on
their part, made enormous sums of
money, and while pretending to be dis?
couraging the use of platinm they com?
pelled its use by ?discouraging, the use
of substitutes."
Mr. Rainey charged that jewelers
have advertised extensively to bring
about use of platinum-set rings, and
jewelry interests had denounced as fa?
natics women behind a propaganda to
prevent the use of platinum in jewelry,
lie pledged a fight to put a prohibitory
?* on platinum in the new revenue
"The world's supply of platinum .
comes fmm Russia*' said Mr. Rainey.
Ke produce here less than one per
?n. of our supply of platinum.
Board Badly Advised
'There is sufficient evidence to show
??e absolute need of platinum. I now
^cuss the inefficient attempts of our
*ar Trade Hoard to conserve this im
K**nt metal. The conservation of
Platinum, irridium and palladium has
Sf?n placed by the War Trade Board
m?chargc of C. H. Connor.
for the first time since war began I
JJ criticising an agency of the govern
y*t I do not question the patriotism
W ?ft Conner or any member of the
?ward. They have had, however, ex
i??u!nBly bad adviser? and have been
?^J,enced b>' advice from the jewel
IP vigilance committee and from
mJI sources.
?n "' 's another source of advice
?Pon which the War Trade Board has
"Pended. I am unwilling to believe
*h\ u"y understand the influences
tVn'oh surround the adviser upon whom
S? , c depended since the organiza
!&?f this important War Board.
in? German firm of W. C. Heraeus
*' ?s headquarters in Hanau, Ger
?.?">'? It has a branch in the United
gWW controlled by Charles Kngel
gflj who has hia office at 30 Church
gMt, New York City, and who adver
2Ji,"at> doing business as Charles
^?wd, he is a branch of the Ger
jj"?jj .irm. This German firm is the
??est dealer in platinum in the world.
u Born in Germany
Han rCS ^n?elnard wa? Dorn >n
jk au- Germany, of German parentage,
il came here twenty-five years ago.
? r>aur'ed a daughter of this same
?Wi 1erapus. and she has ?ix broth
in the German army."
?*"?? Kainey here referred to the card
Qui Jy ^?elha-?d with the Chemists*
With ?f^arding his weekly conferences
"?the War Trade Board on platinum
T?er?', He continued:
Wr? ? 8tat?8 on his card that his
?L 'Ms i? platinum. There are four
ilati wnicn control 80 per cent of the
"""urn supplies of the United States
j^*?? & Co., of Newark, N. J.; the
t? A1C8n Platinum Wo-ks, the Irving
smelting and Refining Company, of
^"Jersey, and Charles Kngelhard, do?
's ouiintss as Charles Engelbard.
HiiitJi ,tnese firms are controlled ab
?Wy by Charles Enge! hard, and
Ote?,vnS of them has its offices at 30
?gJCB Street, New York City. The
*W? u:, every one of these concerns
*e?lJi office of Engelhard.
A?2? ?* EnK*lbard live? at 565 Park
^?* ?New York City, in the fa?h
U. S. Organizes Dock Labor
To Speed Up Shipments
(Special DitpaUh to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 7.?To expedite
the loading and unloading of war car?
goes, arrangements have been co'm
pleted whereby the employment of
stevedores, marine workers and long?
shoremen in every port of the United
States will be handled exclusively
through the United States Employment
Service, the Department of Labor an?
nounced to-day.
Because of unnecessary delays in
loading important war munitions, rep?
resentatives of the War and Navy de?
partments, the Shipping Board, the
railroad administration and the De?
partment of Labor have centralized re?
sponsibility for the handling of all dock
labor with the Federal employment sys?
tem.
Captain Thomas V. O'Conner, of New
York City, president of the Longshore?
men's Union, has been appointed an
officer of the employment service tc
carry out this work, having beer
I granted leave from his usual duties to
devote all his attention to cutting down
the time for loading and unloading
ships engaged in war traffic. Captain
O'Conner's title will bo Director of
Stevedores and Marine Workers. His
office will be in the Bowling Green
Building, New York City. Local
directors will be appointed in every
port where there is any considerable
i volume of war shipments.
Central Office to Direct Work
Arrangements have been made pro
I viding for the establishment of a cen?
tral employment office for longshore?
men near the Battery, with branch of?
fices located at every pier used in the
transatlantic trade. From the New
York offices of the Shipping Board, the
Quartermaster Corps of th.e army, the
Navy Department and the Railroad Ad?
ministration daily notices will be sent
to the central office, stating the ship
arrivals scheduled for the coming day,
the piers at which docking:; will be
made and the maximum number of
men required for the discharge of
cargo. The central office will then see
that the men are on hand, distributing
? them through the branch offices.
?onable residence section. It would re?
quire millions of dollars to swing the
business of these four firms, yet the
commercial agencies are unable to ob?
tain from Charles Engelhard a satis?
factory statement as to his business
nor as to the source of large sums of
money he must have to control the
platmum business of the United :
btates.
"Recently a young man representing j
one of the great commercial agencies I
succeeded in passing the outer barriers j
and getting into the inner office of
Engelhard, hoping to get a personal
statement from him. He did not find
him there, but he did find, apparently I
in control of the inner office, a German |
alien by the name of von Broek, who
at that time received from unknown
sources frequent sums of money, usu?
ally amounting to $6,000, which sums
he disbursed among Germans cut of
employment on account of war condi?
tions. From the firm of Baker & Co.
a suspected German alien recently was
taken and interned at Ellis Island,
where von Broek now is interned.
"I desire to say that Charles Engel?
hard claims to be naturalized.
"In its conservation efforts and its
insufficient commandeering ord-;r, the
board has had bad advice, and unless
sufficient commandeering orders are
made at once the matter ought to be
taken completely out of their hands
and turned over to some competent
government agent."
Charles Engelhard declined to meet
reporters who went to his office at 30 '
Church street yesterday. A stenogra- ;
pher, however, handed each caller a j
typewritten statement in which Mr. i
Engelhard declared the statements !
made about him by Representative
Rainey to be made up largely of sug- j
gestions and insinuations.
"My business affairs," the statement
read, "personal record and affiliations ?
are fully known to the proper govern?
ment authorities, to whom I must refer
any one entitled to information in the
premises."
On a club questionnaire recently
sent out by the Chemists' Club to all
members Mr. Engelhard wTote that he
was a platinum agent at 30 Church
Street; that he was employed by Baker
& Co., of Newark, N. J.; that he was
born in Germany; that his parents
were born there and that he was nat- 1
uralized?
- .-i
Regiment ?sks for
All-Negro Officers j
Fifteenth Promises Governor
It Then Will Recruit to Full
Force in a Hurry
Governor Whitman yesterday at the
St. Regis was asked by a delegation of
negroes to sanction recruiting for the
15th National Guard Regiment to a
full complement, with strictly negro
officers, from colonel down. The dele?
gation included David C. Outlear, at?
torney; Isaac B. Allen, former Assem?
blyman; William Nichols, Virgil H.
Parks, A. B. Cosey, Dr. Williams, Lee
Pollard and C. Juliette.
"We told the Governor the record of
the negro soldiers in the Civil War, in
the Spanish-American War and thus
far in this war amply warrants us in
asking him to sanction the filling up
of the 15th Regiment, on the under?
standing all the officers are to be col?
ored," said Mr. Outlear.
"The original 15th was colored, with
white officers, principally. That com?
mand was merged with the army on
the other side and has given an ac?
count of its fighting qualities. The
recruiting for the 15th National Guard,
or state, Regiment is going on very
slowly, the chief difficulty being that
the men feel they can fight as well as
any one and want colored officers from
top to bottom. If the Governor grants
our request you'll see the ranks fill up
in a hurry."
The Governor promised to carefully
consider the request and give an early
answer. He will review the regiment
this afternoon on the grounds of the
Crescent Athletic Club. To-morrow
afternoon, at Richmond Hill, he will
speak at a flag raising, and will return
to Albany Sunday night.
Garfield May Resume
"Lightless Nights"
(Special Dispatch to The Tribune)
WASHINGTON, June 7.?Fuel Ad?
ministrator Garfield to-day issued a
warning to electrical display advertis?
ers that unless there was an immediate
voluntary curtailment of electrical
illumination by theatres, stores and
other similar public establishments he
would be compelled to reinstitute the
"lightness nights" order enforced last
winter.
According to information before tne
fuel administration, there is much
needless illumination of theatres and
other public establishments. In some
cases, it is alleged, signs are lighted
even before sundown. Dr. Garfield in?
tends to put an immedate stop to su?
perfluous lighting as a fuel conserva?
tion measure, it was stated.
-???-^f-??.
Many British Miners
Volunteer for Army
LONDON, June 7. -British miners
i have shown a fine patriotic spirit in
j their response to the call for men to
I enter military service, says the labor
j correspondent of "The Daily Tele
I graph. In some districts, he says, as
? many as CO per cent of the men re
? quired ha/re been voluntarily recruited
i without resort to the ballot system,
j which was devised as a means of giv
; ing equal opportunities to all the men.
The correspondent states that the
number of men to be taken from the
mines for the army is now virtually
complete, and that in some districts
the entire quotas have been obtained.
The military authorities are taking
76.000 men from the pits.
Berlin Threat
Fails to Free
Capto Rintelen
Continued from pnfre 1
ceedings against him took place only
recently.
Up to the present time the efforts
of the German government to effect
an improvement in the situation of
Captain-Lieutenant Rintelen, who
passed into the hands of tho Ameri?
can authorities by reason of icts of
the British government contrary to ]
international law, have been unsuc- I
cessful. The attempt to brine \o I
a halt the criminal proceedings |
brought against him in America and
to secure his release h.is likewise
been without result.
In order to lend greater emphasis
to the protests which have been
lodged with the American govern?
ment, the German government con?
templates some appropriate meas?
ures of reprisal. It would, however,
prefer to avoid the contingency that
persons be taken and made to suffer
because the government of the
United States was apparently not i
sufficiently cognizant of its Interna?
tional obligations toward a German
subject.
Before making a definite decision
the German government believes it
should propose to the government of
the United States that Captain-Lieu?
tenant Rintelen be set at liberty by
exchange for the American citizen
Siegfried Paul London, who vas con- ;
demned to death for espionage and
whoso sentence was later commuted
to ten years' penal servitude, and
that Captain-Lieutenant Rintelen bo
permitted forthwith to return to
Germany. Should the government
of the United States agree to this
proposal the German government
would take steps that London's un?
completed term of imprisonment bo
remitted and that he be set at lib?
erty in order that he may immedi?
ately lea?.Te the country.
The State Department ignored tho
German demand for a month and a
half, replying under date of June 4,
with this government's answer to the
German threats.
The State Department's reply to the
Swiss Minister was as follows:
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your memorandum of
April 13, 1918, communicating a
translation of a note verbale from
the German government, ransmitted
by the Swiss political department,
proposing the exchange of Captain
Lieutenant Franz Rintelen for Sieg?
fried Paul London, an alleged Amer?
ican citizen condemned to ten years
penal servitude in Germany. The
German government threatens meas?
ures of reprisal if Rintelen is not
released or exenanged for London.
In reply I have the honor to ad?
vise you that this government can?
not consider the exchange of Rinte?
len for London, nor can it consider
the release of Rintelen nor inter?
ference in the due process of ?aw in
his case.
The threat of the German govern?
ment to retaliate by making Ameri?
cans in Germany suffer clearly im?
plies that the government proposes
to adopt the principle that the re?
prisals occasioning physical suffer?
ing are legitimate and neces.iary in
order to enforce demands from ttie
belligerent to another. The govern?
ment of the United States acknowl?
edges no such principle md would
suggest that it would be wise for the
German government to consider that
if it acts upon that principle it will
inevitably be understood to invite
similar reciprocal action on the part
of the United States with respect to
the great number of German^sub
jects in this country. It is assumed
that the German government before
acting will give due reflection and
due weight to this consideration.
I beg that you will be good enough
to bring the foregoing statement to
the attention of the German govern?
ment.
Arrested at Sea
The reference in the German note
j to the part, taken by tho British gov
i eminent in bringing Rintelen to jus
I tice refers to Rintelen's arrest on the
I high seas by the British and his return
to the United States to stand trial on
! pending indictments.
Another reference is made in the
I German note to efforts to halt the
j criminal proceedings against Rintelen
I in America. Germany tried repeatedly
i to have Rintelen considered as a
Erisoner of war by the United States
y reason of his rank in the German
army, but this the State Department
: consistently refused to do because Rin
? telen was convicted not of military
, offences, hut of crimes against the
j neutrality of the United States while
? this nation was at peace.
! Rintelen, Kaiser's
Favorite, Sent Here
To Foment Plots
| Captain Rintelen, the generally rec
I ognized head and paymaster of German
dynamiters and incendiaries in this
country, was Convicted last February,
with ten other plotters, of p.n attempt
to blow up American ships, and was
! sentenced to eighteen months in the
j Atlanta penitentiary and to pay a fine
of $2,000.
The same sentence was imposed on
! the other conspirators. The judge who
! committed them to prison said that
? sentences to life imprisonment or the
I death penalty would not have been too
! severe, in view of the gravity of their
offence.
When the war was started Rintelen,
who always had been a favorite of the
Kaiser and had played as a boy with
the Crown Prince, promptly was in?
stalled in a safe post, a newly created
office under the general staff of the
navy. His title, according to his own
CAPTAIN FRANZ RINTELEN
German plotter now in prison in this country whose release is sought by
the German government under threat of reprisals on American
prisoners.
Statements, was "finane-.a? adviser to i
the naval general staff."
He held that office for about eight j
months, and then was sent to the i
United States to corrupt labor leaders, j
start strikes and fires, dynamite fac- |
tories and ships or use such other I
means as might prove necessary to |
prevent the shipment of munitions to
the Allies. Strikes, fires, explosions
and missing ships followed his arrival,
but the shipments to the Allies con?
tinued.
Then, still acting under instructions,
it is said, Rintelen played h?3 ?-econd
card and began to intrigue in Mexico
and along the border to embroil the
two countries and divert military sup?
plies from Europe to this continent. !
The culmination of this plotting was
the negotiations attempted by Ger?
many to lure Mexico into an actual in?
vasion. Thanks to the vigilance of
government agents this plot was frus?
trated and Germany's attempted in?
trigue published to the world.
10,000 Armenians
Reported Massacred
By Turkish Troops
LONDON, June 7.?A bitter struggle
is being waged in the Caucasus be?
tween the new Caucasian government
and the Turks, rays an Exchange Tele?
graph dispatch from Moscow. The
Turks are reported to have massacred
moro than ten thousand Armenians
within a fortnight.
The Caucasian government had or?
dered the mobilization of all men be?
tween the ages of nineteen and forty
two, and newly formed Caucasian de- |
tachments are concentrating in the,
Tiflis district.
The Soviet government is meeting
with difficulties in its efforts to con?
clude peace with the Ukrainian govern?
ment and prevent further encroach?
ment upon Russian territory by Ger?
man and Ukrainian troops. The peace
conference at Kiev is being delayed,
and in the meantime German and
Ukrainian troops have occupied new
districts of Russia. The German com?
mand has declared it is inopportune to
conclude pence before the occupation
of p.il important Ukrainian districts is
effected, according to an Exchange Tel?
egraph dispatch from Moscow.
Captain Stchasnig, commander of the
Russian Baltic fleet, has been impris?
oned on a charge of inciting the sailors
against the authority of the Soviet
government, says a Reuter dispatch
from Moscow.
The spirit trade, which was sup?
pressed in Russia by imperial decree
early in the war, despite an enormous
loss in excise taxes to the treasury,
has been revived in the Ukraine, ac?
cording to advices from Kiev. The
production, it is stated, will bo limited
to 0,000,000 kegs annually, from which
it is expected that taxes amounting to
400,000,000 rubles will be raised.
The spirits, it is added, will be ra?
tioned on the card system, under which
men would receive not to exceed one
bottle a month and women a half
bettle.
Rintelen is thoroughly familiar with
the United States, Mexico and Eng
I land, having travelled extensively in
i all three during the six years prior to
the war. When he returned to the
United States three years ago it was
I as a representative of the Deutsches
! Bank seeking to extend its business.
This excuse won him entrance to many
? circles ordinarily difficult of access.
' The rumor was current that he in?
tended to float a huge loan for Ger
; many.
Three years ago, when Rintelen was
' a prisoner in England, he was said to
' be the Duke Adolph of Mecklenburg
; Schwerin, a relative of the Kaiser.
There were persistent reports at the
time of his trial here that his relation?
ship to the Kaiser was still closer, but
j was not officially recognized, and his
striking resemblance to the Crown
Prince was the subject of comment.
It '.vas brought out that among his
aliases were the names Hansen, Gasche
1 and Gates, but nothing to confirm the
rumor of noble birth developed.
He was on terms of the utmost inti?
macy with the Kaiser, however, and
with Prince Henry of Prussia, and was
i counted one of the influential members
I of Germany's war party. For four
| years he was a high official of the
\ Deutsches Bank. His wife, of a wealthy
Berlin family, is prominent in society
there. She has been active in Red
Cross work in Germany and is said to
have been cognizant of her husband's
mission in the United States.
j British Losses Show
Slight Drop in Week
LONDON, June 7.?British casualties
reported during the week ending Fri
, day totalled 32,644, divided as follows:
Officers killed or died of wounds,
208; men, 4,258.
Officers wounded or missing, 753;
. men, 27,425.
The total of casualties given is
I slightly lower than in previous weeks.
! British lists are usually a month be?
hindhand, so the casualties reported
were probably suffered before the lat
I est offensive.
Russe?ites Said
Soldier Was Lower
Than a Brute
Jack London Was Quoted
to Show Warrior Was
"Blind Murder Machine"
Jack London's "A Good Soldier" was !
introduced in evidence by the prosecu- :
tion yesterday in the trial of the nine
Russellites in the United States Dis?
trict Court in Brooklyn, with the re?
sult several self-conscious army "men
in the audience heard a soldier de- |
scribed as a "blind, heartless, soulless, j
murderous machine." The defendants, j
Joseph B. Rutherford, successor to the j
late Pastor Russell, and eight of his j
followers were arrested as obstrue- !
tionists following the publication and I
circulation of "The Finished Mystery," ?
but it was alleged they also made use
?of Jack London's article.
Edward Adams, printer, called as a
government witness, testified hundreds
of thousands of copies of this paper
were reprinted by him after the decla?
ration of war upon the order of the
Bible and Tract Society and sent to
all parts of the United States;.
"Lower Than a Brute"
"Young man," reads the admonition
to "Soldiers of Christ," whom London I
contrasts with ordinary soldiers, "the j
lowest aim of your life is to be a good
soldier. The good soldier is not a man.
He is not even a brute, foj; brutes
only kill in self-defence. All that is
human in him, all that has been divine
in him, all that constitutes th* man
has been sworn away when he took
the enlistment oath. His mind, his
I conscience, his very soul, are in the
keeping of his officer. No man may |
fall lower than a soldier."
William F. Hudgins, secretary of the!
People's Pulpit, the New York branch :
of the International Bible Students'
i Association, the original Russell or?
ganization, testified "members of the
| organization were consecrated to the
| Lord and as followers of the life and
| example of Jesus Christ were exempt
| by divine right from military service."
Not Opposing War
The followers of Pastor Russell were
I expecting the war, according to Hud
I gins's testimony, and look upon it as
j a divine means of bringing about the
I Messianic kingdom.
"We, therefore, are not against the
| war," he said, "because it was destined
i to come. We are against combative
' service for those consecrated to the
i Lord."
Earlier in the* day a tilt in court
between Frederick \V. Sparks, counsel
! for the defendants, and Federal Judge
j Harland B. Howe almost threatened to
commit a witness for contempt of
; court.
Mrs. Mabel Campbell and Mrs. Agnes
I Hudgins, stenographers in Bethel
' Home, headquarters of the Russellites,
, evinced a seeming unwillingness to
! answer questions. The court threat
: ened to commit Mrs. Campbell for con
j tempt.
Other witnesses for the government
! were Jerry de Cecea, an Italian con
! scientious objector from Camp Devens,
i and Charles R. Anderson, of Camp
Upton, who appeared in his uniform.
Both are Russelites. The trial will be
resumed Monday.
?-o
22 German 'Planes
Downed by British
English Aces Accomplish Good
Results During Engagement;
Lose One Machine
LONDON, June 7.?The British of?
ficial communication concerning avia?
tion operations says:
"Our airmen took advantage of the
1 fine weather on the British front
' Thursday to accomplish much useful
1 work in reconaissance and photog?
raphy. Together with our observa?
tion balloons, they ranged our guns on
many hostile batteries.
"In air fighting fourteen German
machines were destroyed and eight
others were driven down out of con
, trol. Several observation balloons
were destroyed by our airmen and an?
other hostile airplane was forced to
descend by our anti-aircraft fire.
"During the day we dropped twenty
eight tons of bombs and a further
? eleven tons in the course of the fol?
lowing night. Among the targets at?
tacked were Valenciennes, Le Cateau,
Busigny and the St. Quentin railway
station.
i "We lost one machine during the
I day."
Kaiser's Friends
May Balk Show
Of Loyalty Here
Demonstration by Citizens
of German Origin Likely
To Be "50-50" Affair
Resolution Too Strong
Franz Sigel at Preliminary
Meeting Refuses to Mod?
ify Language
Citizens of German origin through?
out the city are watching with mis?
givings the progress of what they de-I
claro is a scheme to make the pro
j posed "demonstration of loyalty" a
', lifty-fifty affair as between the Kaiser
and America. The stormy meeting on
Thursday, at which a resolution intro?
duced by Franz Sigel, of the Friends
of German Democracy, was referred to
a committee instead of being indorsed,
is not regarded as a hopeful augury
;' a 100 per cent American "loyalty
demonstration."
Apparently the sole reason that
.l-.ose who attended the preliminary
rreetjng balked at the resolution was
c ntained in a paragraph expressing
"absolute condemnation of the German
government, the German Kaiser and
the Prussian military autocrats, who
arc and have been the German govern?
ment." This harsh hut straightfor
] ward language impelled the Rev. Julius
: Jaeger to recall the time he was in
? troduced to the Kaiser, whom he re
! garded as "the most democratic of
| men," and precipitated the discussion.
? Anti-Kalsermen Outnumbered
Representatives of the Friends of
German Democracy and of the Lieder?
kranz Society, organizations that are
regarded as frankly anti-Kaiser, were
outnumbered by far. Mr. Sigel firmly
declined to have hrs resolution mu?
tilated as was suggested by the
Kaiser's friend, Dr. Jaeger, by cutting
out the objectionable paragraph, and
the resolution was referred to a com?
mittee on the motion of Joseph Ridder.
Mr. Ridder moved further that only
men representing German organiza-1
tions be appointed to the committee, ;
adding that Mr. Sigel, who is head of j
the Friends of German Democracy,
"represented nobody but himself." In
this one detail, however, the Kaiserists
were defeated, Mr. Sigel being named
as a member of the committee that is
considering "?ii resolution.
On the committee Mr. Sigel is out
numbered in the same proportion that
prevailed at Thursday's meeting. The
committee is to make its report on
Monday. German-Americans are await?
ing it with interest.
Those who were never members of
the German-American Alliance, which ;
recently died from exposure, declare
that the failure to indorse the resolu?
tion in its original form virtually ,
would brand the "loyalty demonstra?
tion" as the beginning of a revival of
the German-American Alliance under a
new name.
Decision May Be Questioned
They point out that the societies
whose representatives predominated at
Thursday's meeting have less than six
thousand members all told, and that
unless their decision is such as to win
general approval it cannot be taken
as the voice of the German-Americans
in New York, nor can the "loyalty
demonstration" and its possible out?
come be regarded as truly representa?
tive.
As to the character of that demon?
stration, they refer to the suggestion
which Dr. Nikola Elsenheimmer made
at Thursday's meeting, that at least its
managers would have to persuade Mme.
Schumann-Heink to appear as a soloist,
or "otherwise you will not get an au?
dience." Although one of the singer's
sons is in the German navy, three are
in the United States army, and Mme.
| ?chumann-Heink's most recent appep.i
I anees have been at American canton?
ments.
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TreasonRampant,Says
Vienna Burgomaster
?Calls on German Parties to
Unite Against "Slav
Treachery"
AMSTERDAM, June 7.--The Vienna
j correspondent of the "Weser Zeitung,''
j a radical newspaper of Bremen, says
' that in a sensational speech Dr. Weis
I kirchner. Burgomaster of Vienna, de
| clared:
"High treason and ingratitude are
| rampant, and the government has
: proved weak and unsteady. In the pres?
ent serious time we need a parliament,
for even a bad parliament is better
than none. It is true that Parliament
failed to deal with the food question,
but it remains the only platform foi
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the arbitrary acts of the bureaucracy
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"The supreme and most urgent duty
? of the German parties now is to show
' a united front to Slav treachery."
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