The Mankato free press., 1910-06-10
FIGHT IS TO Be MADE
RESOLUTIONS OF THE GERMAN
AMERICAN ALLIANCE.
Claims That Ants Are Attempting to
Curtail the Liberties of the People;
Several Lutheran Ministers Attend
ed the Meeting of the Organization
in st. Paul Yesterday; What Will
Be Done Now.

st. Paul, June 3.-Resolutions de-
nouncing the county option movement
and pledging the OrganiZat to an
organized campaign against the move
ment We're adopted yesterday by the
executive board of the German Ameri-
can Alliance of Minnesota, composed
of l39 societies with 27OO0 members
The board meeting, held in Mozart
hall. st. Paul, was attended by l25
delegates, the majority coming from
points outside of the Twin Cities.
Lutheran Ministers Were Present.
Among them were several Lutheran
clergymen who maintained that the
county option plan does not solve the
problems associated with the suppress
sion of the evils resulting from the
excessive use of liquor.
The meeting of the county option
forces in st. Paul, May 2, and the adj
dresses and resolutions adopted. were
discussed at some length today by va
riouss speakers.
What the Resolutions Say.
Lengthy resolutions outlining in de
tail the position of the alliance with
reference to the liquor question and
the plans to fight the county optionists
We're adopted.
Following the preamble referring to
the county option convention and its
platform, the resolutions read as fol
lows, in part:
Nn 4
attempt to cnrtail the personal liberty
and rights of the indivilual We stead
fastly stand for regulation and control
of the liquor traffic, but we are un-
reseredly opposed to any legislation
that cOnfers upon one man or set OF
line of conduct in reference to their
individual and personal preferences.
Raps Anti-Saloon League.
'The AntiSaloon league has mani
tested no interest in the solution of
the problems, but instead is directing
all its energies i'm efforts to secure for
our state county option, which. ac-
cOrdng to the statement of its leaders.
is only preliminary to te-wide pro-
hibton
The advocates of county option are
politically active in every county in
the state and in every way are seek
ing To control caucuses and dominate
elections
j. 1T therefore behooves us as lovers
OF fairness and Justice, to meet these
activities and to act together to see
that these rights are preserved. With
this end in view, we. the representa-
tives OF l39 societies in Minnesota or
ganize as a non partisan campaign com
mittee for the elections of 1910 with
the declared purpose of counteractine
the agitation of the Anti-Saloon
league"
The delegates want to make it known
that German Americans do not OPP
pose county option and other prohibi-
tive measures against the traffic III
beverages. simply because
they are of German origin or descent
Such is misstatement and an I'M
truth repeatedly made by over-zealous
advocates of prohibition.
The assembly went on record for the
upholding of law and good citizenship,
but also as opposed to county option
and other sumptuary laws because of
the fact that they recognize in them
an infringement of the personal rights
and liberty of the individual.
Rev. G. c. Hasse of Saltwater ad-
dressed the meeting on The Duties
Df German Americans in Furtheramce
Df Culture and Morals"