Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-19
WAR ON TEMPERANCE.
Meeting of the Liquor Dealers Of
America at Milwaukee. i
They Fire Out the Reporters, Adopt Reso-
lutions, and Agree to Stand By
:. Each Other to the Last
) Drop Of Gin.
MANY OTHER SOCIETY MEETINGS.

MILWAUKEE, October 1S.-The first annual
Convention OF the National Liquor Dealers
and Manufacturers' Protective Association
of the United States met this forenoon,
Leopold Ballenburg, of Peora, Ills, presid-
ing. CONGRESSMAN Duerter delivered the
address of welcome, in which he says:
..But recently wild and desperate cru
sade has been inaugurated in various
States against the very existence Of your
fourishing and prosperous establishment
In which, as we all we'll know, there are in
vested hundreds of millions Of capital and
upon which thousands and thousands of
workingmen and their families are depend
ent. 1t is new outbreak Of fanaticism
such as we have had occasion to witness at
different periods. 1t is the offspring OF a
blind passion, and being born as 1t has been
horn it will run its race" The speaker
counselled ..t-
Closer and More Complete Organise
to vindicate, guard and protect the funda-
mental principles of the right of personal
liberty. III. Rubens, a delegate from Chi
cago then made a motion 70 exclude all
outsiders including the press reporters,
which after q discussion, prevailed, and
guard was placed at the doors. The pro-
ceedings of the secret session resulted IN
the election OF Frank A. Fall, of Milwaukee,
chairman; Augustus, Tmms, OF Illinois,
and j. Rath, Of Missouri, as secretaries
The chair then appointed the following
committees:
ON Finance-Chas Kaufman, Nebraska;
T. Whortman, Wisconsin, F. Madiener,
Illinois.
On Organization-H Rubens nls,; P. II.
Baker, Penna.; Charles J. Metzger, Ills. ID.
L. McGuggin, Nebraska; NJ. T. Ullman,
Dakota; A. E. Leicht, Ills; Albert Zeigier,
New York.
On Resolutions-Chas Feinz. Ills; c. NJ.
Conrad, Penns.; H. Schuyster, Mimi;
Christ Schubert, Kansas; J. Il. Rsth,
Missouri.
were represented except three, among
which is Indiana, which telegraphed that
an organization had just been effected. In
the secret afternoon session the Committee
on Organization recommended that the
name Of the Association be changed to the
Personal Liberty League OF the United
States, to be composed of the various State
protective associations, and OF the national
brewers and distillers' associations, the
management TO be in the hands Of an ex-
ecutiye committee of one from each State.
The annual dues are to be $3.50 for each
State society, and $50 for each society in
the Territories. The Committee on Reso-
lutions reported the
Following Resolutions:
WHEREAS, The Prohibition party has for
the last few years entered upon an aggres-
sive warfare against the cause OF personal
freedom and has succeeded by hostile legis-
lation in some States in passing laws vi0-
lating the principles OF personal liberty,
destroying legitimate business and injuri.
GUS to the productive industries and CON-
mercial interests of the people; and
WHEREAS, As the said Prohibition party
has of late years formed strong, energetic
and powerful National organisation, and
by the means thereof has met with all its
- III Pai y InaS'I'e, anu eiLner not
organized at all, or only insufficiently, and
in few localities, therefore,
Resolved, That there now exists the most
urgent necessity for the formation OF Ma
tional organization, capable Of meeting the
enemy when and wherever he attacks our
rights and business interests, and OF
strengthening our common cause in order
to save our property from
Confscation and Destruction.
Resolved. That our cause is not only the
cause of legitimate business, but the cause
of great principles, the principles OF per-
sonal liberty, OF the protection OF men
against the unwarranted and despotic usur-
patton OF power belonging TO free citizens
of this country, and the destruction OF
rights which never have and never can be
surrendered to any State or society.
Resolved That We congratulate, and at
the same time thank the State Of Ohio for
its last victory, by whi ch for the first time
of late, it has arrested the wild and fanati.
cal prohibition movement, aud that we
commend its example of union and or
ganizatioR to the rest of the States.
The report was adopted and the follow
ing executive committee chosen: Illinois.
Leopold Ballenberg; Wisconsin. Grido
Hansen; Minneapolis, George Bentz; Kan
sas, Christ Schubert; Pennsylvania, z. +.
Brecker; Nebraska, Charles Kaufman;
Missouri, J. H. Roth; Few York, J. H.
Long; Dakota, NJ. p. Ullmann; Maryl land,
William Metzger; National Brewers Asso-
citation, Emanuel Schandein. Milwaukee.
The session then adjournedtirl to- morrow,
and will probably last till Friday.