The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-10-26
THE NATIONAL LIoUon. DEALERS
They Have Big Meeting and Resolve
that the Principles OF Personal
Liberty Must and Shall


MILWAUKEE, Oct. 1S.-The first annu
| al convention of the national liquor
dealers and manufacturers protective
association of the United States met to-
day, Leopold Ballenberg, of Peoria,
Ills, presiding.
Congressman Duestcr delivered the
address of welcome, IN which he said /:
But recently wild, desperate crusade
has been inaugurated in some states
against the very existence of your -four
ish1ng and prosperous establishments,
IN which thousands and thousands of
workingmen and their families are de
pendent. It is new outbreak of fanat-
icIsm such as we have had occasion to
witness at different times AID periods
before. It's the offspring of blind pas
sion, and blind. as it has been born, it
will run its race.
The speaker counseled close and more
complete organization to vindicate,
guard and protect the fundamental
principles of right and personal liberty
81. Z. Rubens, delegate from Chicago,
then made a motion TO exclude all out
siders, including press reporters, which
after discussion prevailed, and a guard
was placed at the door.
The proceedings of the secret session
resulted in the election of Franz r.
Falk, of Milwaukee, chairman, August
Trium, of Illinois, and j. Fl. Roth, of
Missouri, secretaries.
Ali the states in the union were rep
resented except three, among which is
Indiana, which telegraphed that the Or
ganiZation there is just being effected.
In the secret afternoon session the
committee on organization recommend
ed that the name of the association be
changed to the Personal Liberty league
OF the United States, TO be composed of
various state protective associations of
the National Brewers and DisIillers' as
sociation, the management to be in the
hands of an executive committee of one
from each state, one from the Distillers'
and one from the Brewers association,
the annual dues TO be $3.50 for each
Otatc society and $3.50 for each society
In the territories.
The cOmmittee reported the following
resolutions:
Whereas, The party has for the past
few years entered upon an aggressive
warfare against the cause of personal
freedom, and has succeeded by hostile
legislation in some states in passing laws
violating the principal of personal liber-
ty destroying legitimate business and in
furious TO the productive industries and
commercial interests of the people.
Whereas, As the said prohibition par.
ty hrs of late years formed strong, en-
ergetic and powerful national organiza-
tion, and by the means thereof has met
with all its successes, while on the 9TH
er hand the liberal party has been mac
tive. and either not organized at all, or
only sufficiently in few localities.
Resolved, That there now exists the
most urgent necessity for the formation
of national organization capable of
meeting the emergency when and where
exer he attacks our rights and business
interests of strengthening our common
cause in order 10 save our properly from
confiscatiOn and destruction.
Resolved, That our cause is not the
only cause of legitimate business, but
the cause of great principles-the prin-
ciples of personal liberty-of the pro-
lection of men against the unwaranted
and desperate usurpation power belong
ing to free citizens of this city and de-
structlon of the right which never have
and never can be surrendered to state
society.
Resolved, That we congratulate and
at the same time think the state of Ohio
for Its last victory, by which for the first
time of late it has arrested the wild and
tanatical prohibition movement, and
that we commend its example of union
and organization to the rest of the staics