The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-25
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report to the convention of the Ma.
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers as
ISOLATION at the Bellevue Stratford to-
day, Morris Westheimer, Cincinnati,
chairman of the Executive committee
OF the Association, accused the AMI.
Saloon League of forcing the liquor
interests to remain in politics. The
activity of the League in causing con
tinual agitation without accomplishing
anything towards q solution of the
liquor question, he asserted, forces
the wholesalers and distillers of the
United States to remain in politics
for the protection OF the millions OF
dollars invested in the business.
I'VE are everywhere met with the
cry that the liquor business should be
divorced from politics. Chairman
Westheimer said, and that men en-
gagged in 1t should stay cut of politics.
No men on earth are less anxious to
break into politics than the distillers
and wholesale liquor dealers OF the
United States. They are in politics
only when menaced, harassed and
enjoyed They are in politics only
when threatened, assailed and subject.
ed to confiscation and destruction. To
expect less than this natural defense
of natural rights would be to place
our people in the actegory of the su.
pernatural."
Arraigns AntLsaIoon League.
In bitter arrangement of the Anti
Saloon League and what he termed
its unjust and unfair methods, Mr..
Westheimer quoted as follows from
statement OF Purely A. Baker, Gener.
al Superintendent OF the Anti-Saloop
League Of America. to show that tn
League is resorting to the boycott in
disregard for the law in an effort to
attain its ends. "In every cominun.
ity 1t (the liquor traffic. can find
Few business men willing to act as
wet nurses to the traffic. They In
their business are deserving of exact
~ the same treatment accorded the
saloonkeepcr and his business-to be
regarded as unworthy of patronage or
social recognition by people interested
in the moral well being of the com.
munity. When Christian women, who
do most of the buying, withdraw their
support from business men who es.
pouse the saloon and give their sup.
port to business men who oppose the
saloon, there will soon be no saloon.
supporting business men.
There is no installing the import Of
this creed" said Mr.. Westheimer. at
is deliberate battle cry for the
boycott, and furnishes another surth.
CT evidence OF the utter disregard for
law entertained by the leaders OF
the Anti-Saloon League movement.
Like other utterances from that quar-
ter, there is deliberate peryersion of
the truth as a foundation for his open.
ing statement.
I'm many county local option sec.
tions the business men and tax payers
have been harassed and damaged and
have risen in rebellion against dry
conditions forced upon them by coun.
ty votes and because business men
are now endeavoring to protect their
rights as merchants and citizens, they
are assailed in the desplcable manner
shown in this manifesto from the
Reverend General Superintendent OF
the League"
Webb and Kenyon Bills.
Continuing, Mr.. Westheimer touch
ed upon the efforts of the Anti.Saloon
League to try to secure Federal legis
lation to divest all distilled and fer.
mented liquors of their interstate
commerce character. Bills for this
purpose known as the Webb and Ken.
yon bills are now before Congress
Should these bills be enacted into
law said Mr.. Westheimer, "they
would not only prevent shipment of
liquor for personal use and for phar.
maceutical purposes from wet into
dry territory, but would so embarrass
and handicap the conduct of the bust.
ness generally as to make It extreme
ly difficult to transact any interstate
business whatever.
Both the Webb and Kenyon bills