He was a conservative intellectual whose father, Eduard Friedrich Reinhold Preuss, had also edited a Catholic newspaper.
His Fortnightly Review was a major conservative voice in English and read closely by church leaders and intellectuals from 1894 to 1934.
Amerika was published without interruption in St. Louis, in German, from 1872 until 1921; at the time of closing, it had a circulation of 25,000 copies.
[2] Intensely loyal to the Vatican, Preuss upheld the German Catholic community, denounced the heresy of Americanism, promoted the Catholic University of America, and anguished over anti-German sentiment during World War I.
He provided lengthy commentary regarding the National Catholic Welfare Conference, the anti-Catholic factor in the presidential campaign of 1928, the hardships of the Great Depression, and the liberalism of the New Deal.