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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
LEAGUE OFFERS REWARD
Will Give $1,000 for Evidence Lead
ing to Conviction of Any Person
Attempting to Bride Legisla-
tors on Temperance Laws

The Anti-Saloon League of New
York offers $1,000 reward for evil
dence leading to and resulting in the
conviction of any person for attempt
ing to bride any member of the pres
ent Legislature of New York with
respect to the optional Prohibition
remonstrance bill, the state Prohibi-
ton amendment, or any other meas
ure designed to allow the people of
any unit in New York voice on the
question of closing saloons. Evidence
must be brought forward within 80
days of the adjournment of the Legis-
lature. This offer is limited to 10
separate cases or 10 parties concerned
in one or any number of cases, the
total liability of the League under
this offer not to exceed $4,000.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16

called Strength of Britain" propa-
ganda is confined to extremists. The
unanswerable indictment of drink as
waster of national energy and re-
sources is making converts among all
classes of the people.
From its powerful intrenchments
the traffic is fighting back 1t still
retains sufficient control of men high
i'll politics and the Church to be able
to make strong resistance. Chal-
lenged as an obstacle to victory, it
retorts that the Prohibtionists arc
embarrassing the government. 1t OBJ
tanned brief comfort from the utter
ancc of cabinet minister who, I'M
der pressure from a dry advocate, ar
gued that if the breweries were closed
up the farmers would have nothing
with which to feed their cows, and
the babies would suffer for lack of
milk Presented with this fine, hui
manitarian reason for continued ex-
istence, the breweries made the most
of it. Thousands of dollars were
spent in advertising it throughout the
land. The Strength of Britain" adj
vocates were depicted as wanton foes
of great industry whose destruction
meant starvation to Englands babies.
The beer bottle and the nursing bot
tie we're declared to be inseparable.
But the answer came quickly. The
Cabinet Minister and the brewers
were overwhelmed with the highest
scientific testimony that the milk of
cows fed on brewery refuse is not fit
for babies. The tables were turned.
1t was shown the breweries were de-
stroying the food value of millions of
bushels of grain that might feed both
the men and the babies of England.
So the fight wages. On one side
reason and conscience; on the other
self-indulgence and profits. What
ever happens in France and Flanders,
the issue of this fight in England
means much to England's soul.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
RICHMOND PROSPERS
IN PROHIBITION ERA
President of Chamber of Commerce
in His Official Report, Tells of
Great Growth of Business
There
Bank Clearings Show Increase and
There Is Big Development in
Jobbing and Retail Trade,
He Says

In his official report as President of
the Richmond, Va, Chamber of Com
mcrce, Coleman Wortham made a
statement concerning the business sit
uation in Richmond.
That city, with a population of
about 100000, has been under Prohi-
bition since November /, 1916, and the
statement of President Workman,
from purely business standpoint, is
very significant. 1t is as follows:
We, of the South, have not enjoyed
the extreme prosperity of the grain
section of our country, or of the East
and Middle West, where munition,
steel and kindred orders predomi-
nate, yet there has been a marvellous
recovery in the cotton business, and
the cotton textile industry, fast NOV
ing to the South, is adding looms and
spindles, and if economic laws con-
tinue to control, the South has before
it wonderful future, and Richmond,
whose chief business is with the cot
ton states, should come into its own.
The statements of the banks clearly
show how Richmond has prospered in
1916, and if a careful investigation is
made it will be evidenced that there
has been an unprecedented increase
in business generally. Our jobbing
and retail trade, our manufacturers,
building operations, taxable values,
postoffice receipts, telephones, banking
capital and surplus, deposits and clear
ings, all show an increase. The last
mentioned, bank clearings, which are
true barometer of business, amount
to the enormous sum of $o32,272, 900
for the year 1916, an increase of 70
per cent, the largest increase of any
city in the country. AS another evil
dence of Richmond's prosperity in
1916, I beg to refer you to the Babson
Statistical Report of January, which
shows Richmond the most active city
in the middle Atlantic group.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
WET SPEAKER GIVES
BILLS A HARD DEAL
Dry Legislation Passes Senate and
Comes to House Committee, But
Is Allowed to Die on
Calendar
Misunderstanding Bill, However, Is
Enacted, and League Will Start,
Active Campaign for It's
Rigid Enforcement

The wet speaker in the North Car
olina House of Representative at the
session just ended gave the temper
ance cause hard deal. Bills to pro-
hibit the sale and manufacture OF
wine, prohibiting the advertising of
liquor forbidding clubs from keeping
liquor and estopping persons from
carrying more than quart of liquor
each on the highway passed the Sen-
ate committee and the Senate itself,
then passed the House committee and
died on the House calendar.
The drys succeeded IN passing bill
to make the manufacture of liquor a
felony, with a penalty of at least II
months in the state prison. Though
the anti-advertising bill was electro
c,tedAssss the wet speaker, there is or
the statute books law prohibiting
soliciting liquor orders, which gives
the state protection of the federal law.
The Anti-Saloon League constitu-
ency is delighted with the passage of
the federal bone-dry amendment,
which gave the state what it wanted,
but what the people vainly tried to
obtain through the General Assembly.
Speaker Murphy and his wet COM
mittee had decreed no such legisla-
ton should pass. The Anti-Saloon
League will now get busy in an effort
to suppress the illegal manufacture of
liquor or moonshining, as it is COM
monty. called. After July the high
price of illicit liquor will be an in
ducement to some men to. run block
AIDES, but the League is on the job
and with its new law expects to keep
this violation down.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
ENDORSED BY CHURCHES
Bill to Make Prohibition Effective
Meets With Universal Favor;
League Sends Out Thousands
of Blank Petitions

The federated churches of Montana
unanimously endorsed the introduc-
ton of bill into the Legislature to
make Prohibition effective December
81, 1917. The Anti-Saloon League
went on record with similar resolu-
ton. Of course this brought forth a
storm of protest from the vets and a
spirited fight over the proposition is
expected. The League has sent out
1900 blank petitions to be addressed
to the Senate and an equal number to
be addressed to the House. In addi-
ton to these the League is asking
church organizations, women's organ
izations and various other societies to
pass resolutions endorsing the move.
The VETS contend and some of the
friends of the Prohibition movement
also hold that the whole matter was
disposed of by vote of the people
and should therefore not be brought
up at this time, but the sponsors for
the movement insist on going ahead
acting on the theory that the bill
voted upon was a liquor mems bill
and that the people had no choice;
that it was better than nothing and
for that reason they voted upon it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
PROHIBITION In ENGLAND

The demand for dry England is
being voiced with growing volume
and insistence. 1t has been taken up
by influential persons and organs who
prior to the war displayed no preju-
dice against the liquor traffic. Among
the later adherents to the movement
is the Spectator, weekly of conscrv-
alive traditions, highest responsibility
and circulation, that is more
schurchy" than nonconformist.
In recent issue the Spectator de-
voted several columns to articles adj
vocating Prohibition, and thus pre-
sented its own view in an EDITORIAL
"The British people have before
them the opportunity to solve the
liquor problem. Will they seize it or
will they let it pass unused, never to
returnl A series of astonishing acct
dents and a fortunate moment in the
mood of the nation have combined
to make it possible for Mr.. Lloyd
fIeorge to confer a great benefit on
this country and to obtain for him
self a pre-cminent position among
modern statesmen. If we win the
war under his premiership, though
there will be gratitude to him in no
small measure, the nation will feel
that in the last resort it has been not
our statesmen but our soldiers and
sailors, the men on the sea and the
men in the trenches, who by their
valor, their self-sacrifce and their in
yinciblc steadncss have made us the
victors. The palm of battle must go
10 them. If, however, the liquor prob
lem is solved in way that Is reason
able in itself and just to all-the way
in which it can now be so1ved-the
praise will be his alone. He will be
the ST. George who has slain the
dragon"
- Such an expression of opinion from
, this particular source is significant.
1t can no longer be said that the So
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
STILL KNOCKING Beer
E. l.. T.

The liquid bread claim received an
other hard blow when Is members of
the German Reichstag demanded the
utmost possible reduction in the
amount of food materials taken for
the manufacture of alcoholic liquors.
Only rs per cent of the normal out
put of beer is now allowed except
in Bavaria where IS per cent is per-
mitted. The brewer passes the re-
striction on to his customers and the
poor beer drinkers of Munich are
now limited to only 3 pints stems of
beer during the time the restaurants
remain open.
There is war in France between
the women and the liquor sellers. A
cartoon in La Victoire shows a
French women in action on the sub
ject of alcohol. 1t is cleaning day,
and not satisfied with the operations
of her study broom against the al
cohol barrel she is vigorously hurry
ing it along with her foot, while the
astonished and dismayed liquor sell
Ter watches the operation from safe
distance.
The cartoonist has simply perpetu-
ated in picture what the press is re-
cording in current history of the dis
cernment as we'll as the patriotism of
the French women of the present GEN.
fury Seeing in alcohol an enemy to
their firesides as menacing as Ger
man guns, they are uniting to exter-
inmate it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
The Saloon Must Go
DR.. Melbourn P. Boynton, Chicago

Dr. Mebourn P. Boynton, Chicago
Intoxicating liquors in themselves great evils, all
the world admits but knows that the saloon is the
of all the related devtry growing of strong drink
1t is the saloon that adds strong drink that
long category of crimes which saloon stencil
in the nostrils of civilization
1t is the saloon that harbors criminal that fosters
gambling, that furnishes hang-out rendezvous
vices that encourages every foul conversation all ed
duct and bestal abandon.
Nothing will answer the needs of the present as an
antiquor which does annhiate the unspeak-
able saloon.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
E. St. Louis Alderman,
Is Sunday Lid litter

When the police, under the orders
of Mayor Mollman of East St. Louis,
last week raided the saloon of Charles
M. Klein, they arrested Alderman
Arnold. The alderman was charged
with disturbing the peace by Patrol
man Walker. Later he told Walker
he would get" his job.
Mayor Mollman suspended for 80
days Klein's license. The Mayor is
showing both fairness and frmness
in enforcing his Sunday closing Of
der, and the saloonkeepers of East St.
Louis are beginning to learn that the
lchief executive is a man not to be
trifed with.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
IS HE CRAZY?

The owner OF a large plantation in
Mississippi where the fine figs grow,
is giving away few iivc-acrc fruit
tracts. The only condition is that
figs be planted. Tie owner wants
enough figs raised to supply CO.
operative canning factory. You cal
secure five acres and an interest in
the canning factory by writing the
Eubank Farms Company, l24S Key
stone, Pittsburgh, Pa. They will
plant and care for your trees for So
per month. Your profit should be
$1,000 per year. Some 'kink this man
is crazy for giving away such valua-
bic land, but there may be method in
his madness.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
DANCING and DRINKING

The disgraceful orgies practiced
night after night in the liquor selling
dance halls of Chicago were the sub
ject of a Sunday evening comment il
he Woodlawn Baptist church, Chi
cago, last Sunday by the pastor, DIR.
N. P. Boynton. DR.. Boynton said ii
part:
Next to the disreputable saloon
the most undesirable place in this city
of ours is the ordinary public dance
hall.
"The recent report of the Juvenile
Protective Association of Chicago,
written by Mrs. Louis Koven
Bowen, is thorough-going, scientific,
and absolutely dependable report on
this situation.
"The reading of this report stirs one
to deep indignation against form of
municipal government so weak and
Indifferent as that such conditions OBJ
tain.
"Think of over 200 dance halls in
this city where liquor is sold, oper-
Ated for no other purpose than to
make money for their constituencies
promoters. Think of city of two
and one-half millions so utterly in the
grip of rum sellers as that so strong
IN organization as the Juvenile Pro-
tective Association is unable to bring
about any great improvement in pub
lie dance halls after years of ex-
pensive, sacrihcial effort.
Where Liquor Is Sold Decency
Vanishes
This report shows that in all but
about one dozen of these dance halls,
minors of beth sexes were present,
that in 18o of these halls no drinking
water was to. be had except at the bar
and in the toilet rooms; that in IA of
these halls much drunkenness was OBJ
served, that where liquor is sold de-
cency vanishes, and that the police
surveillance of these halls is very in
efficient.
"Out of 424 police found on duty,
1872 are reported as rendering poor
service, 100 were caught drinking
strong liquor, and IS were guilty of
improper conduct other than drinking.
The report says that policemen have
no proper conception of their du-
ties in dance halls. In one case a
policeman faithfully attempting to do
his duty was fatally shot.
However, it is impossible to do
anything through city ordinances as
the majority of our City Council is in
bondage to the saloon, therefore, a
bill has been introduced into this ses-
sion of the Legislature, which seeks
to divorce the sale and use of intoxi-
eating liquors in any place while it is
used for public dancing, skating, or
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16

Billy Sunday intends to fight tooth
and nail for the enactment of the
Hill-Wheeler local option bill in
New York State, according to a
Buffalo news dispatch. Sunday is
quoted as commencing Governor
Whitman for the stand that he has
taken in giving the local-option-for-
cities movement his endorsement
and for getting behind the Hill
Wheeler measures
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16

The remarkably low amount of
drunkenness and immortality among
the New York national guard troops
on the Mexican border service last
summer is disclosed in an article by
Major William H. Steers, of the Di-
vision Medical Staff, in the current
New York Medical Journal-Prohibi-
tion-and the absence OF the canteen
is given the cause.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16

When San Francisco allowed the
liquor traffic to resume, some months
after her great fire, DIR. George w.
White, pastor of the Central Church
there, prophesied that unless this
liquor policy were changed Los
Angeles would surpass San Francisco
in 10 years. Recent estimates of
population in the two cities prove that
prophecy correct.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16

in rooms or places practically accessi-
BILE from such place. Every citizen
should write his Senator or Repre-
sentatives urging immediate enact
ment of this desperately needed law.
LET CHICAGO FATHERS
AND MOTHERS AND BIG
BROTHERS ARISE AND SMITE
THIS TWIN OF HELL"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
BOoTLEGGERs FLEE

Prosecuting Attorney H. S. Lee
and Chief of Police Morrison, aided
by other officers, are giving Blueheld
w. Va, thorough cleaning. About
80 bootleggers and other law violators
have been arrested, and all have con-
fessed. A fine of $3.50 and six months
on the road is always the penalty
Law-breakers are fleeing from the
town.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16

1t is said that "the entire liquor bill
of all the lunchers and diners at the
Advertising Club of New York for a
recent month was $50" And it is
figured out that "the average bill for
booze was not over eight-tenths of
a cent per person per meal. Not
over one diner in 40 took a drink
with his meal" s.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-16
..ssss******..ss.sss..
REFERENDUM LETS
THE PEOPLE DECIDE

I. n NEr ENENDUM LET'S
! THE PEOPLE DECIDE
. Ten years ago the Legisla-
ture of Illinois passed the
township local option bill. :
. Since that time the people have .
voted out the saloons in 1,240
out of 1,43o towns, and about .
. seven-eighths of the state is .
now dry.
The local option law lets the
people decide whether they .
want saloons or not. Who can .
say this is not fair?
The bill now before the :
. House, which has already been
passed by the Senate, is purely
a referendum vote which pro-
; vides that all the voters of the .
state may express their wish as .
to whether they want the sa-
loon banished or not. .
All that the referendum does .
is to take the matter out of the
hands of the Legislature, and .
) give it to the people. If the !
present Legislature fails to pass
the bill this session, it will
again come up in 1918. There .
is no question but the people .
should be the ones to decide d:
this important question and .
take it out of politics. The .
sooner the better.-Weekly Re-
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-12-01
NC CALL MAKES PUBLIC
LETTER TO CORNWGT, +

Boston, Nov, 2O,-Governor Mcca1,
IN letter to Governor Cornwell, OF
west Virginia, made public TODAY,
explained that he had declined to grant
a requisition flor the return to that
state or John johnson 9 Negro charg
cd with an attack on a white eirq at
Charleston, because of the grave
danger that the defendant might be
convicted and sentenced to death for
crime which he may not have been
guilty. Assistant Attorney General
Neison p. Brown, who was directed
by Governor Mccall to conduct a. pub
TIC hearing reported that exaggerated
accounts of the crime had been circu
lated In Charleston and because OF
their nature and Johnson's color there
existed prejudice (which would be
difficult, If not impossible Of control
by the most upright judge"
Mr.. Brown recommended that the
Negro, who Is in Jail here, not re
turned to West Virginia.
In 1ndorsing the findings Of the Az
s1stant Attorney General, Governor
Mccall In HIS letter to Governor Corn
we'll said: IT have no doubt that mob
law or tho unjust enforcement of the
law would be as abhorrant to you as
1t Is to the history Of the splendid
State Of West Virginia. have full
confidence that If the case we're re-
Versed, and facts such as have been
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-12-01
GOVERNOR MCALL DENIES THE
REQUISITLON FOR JOHNSON.

Governor Mccall declined to grant
the request of Governor John j. Corn
we'll OF West Virginia and will not al
low John Johnson, colored, to be re
turned to that State for trial on a
serious charge ,prefe: red by young
white girl. The Governor says in mis-
letter to Governor Cornwell that he
Is guided by the thorough investiga
ton OF Assistant Attorney General.
Nelson +. Brown, whose work in this
connection he praises.
The GOVERNOR points out that Mr..
%" WI found exaggerated reports of
t. crime alleged and further that he
sees danger Of n miscarriage Of Justice
In tho Governors opinion, this is not
che time when any race discrimina
ton should be permitted.
Johnson was arrested in this city
early In October and taken to the
Charles st. Jail. Chief William A.
Sparks of Charleston, W. Va, and
OFFICER j. NJ. Chapman, who accom-
panied him, presented tho claim for
eXtraditfon to Governor Mccall. Col
ored friends OF Johnson. led by VIII
liam II. Lewis, protested. The Gov
ernor ordered n hearing before the
Attorney General. ond Mr.. Brown,
tho first assistant was placed in
charge.
At tho hearing JohLson's counsel
asserted that when the West Virgin
la officers confronted Johnson at the
Charles st. Jail, they threatened him
and told him he would be Strung up"
If he fought eXtradition. Other abuse
of Johnson was alleged. Mr.. Brown
went to the Jail. and heard Johnson
as we'll as tle Jail officers. The latter
In part corroborated Johnson.
Boston Globe.)
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-12-01
COLORED MAN SUES TO GET
ALDElsNIANIC SEAT.
harlem Man Short iO1 Votes, Insists
He Beat White Rival.

Indications now are that not one of
the Negroes who claimed election to
the Board OF Aldermen on the morn
ing after" November 6 will sit with
that body. James G. Thomas Jr., the
Harlem Negro lawyer who ran on the
Republican ticket in the Twenty.
sixth district and first appeared to
nave won, Is making last attempt
10 gain scat. His attorney yesterday
appeared In the Supreme Court and
asked for an order permitting an in
spection Of tho ballots.
Robert S. Mullen, former Assis
tant District Attorney of The Bronx,
appeared for his father, Alderman
Mullen, who apparently has beaten
the Negro candidate, and said:
we appreciate the anxiety of the
Negro voters to send Mt least one,
Alderman to the Boarr. .rhey have
succeeded in sending one representa-
tive to'the Assembly. But in this
election Notwithstanding the fact
that the Republicans have gerry
wandered the Harlem district in the
he i snrn nyn,.ra a..
trict, the white Democratic ca,
got 2,S32 votes and tho Negro
publican only Q, 431.
Justice Giegerich adjourned ar
ment on the motion until Monda-r
IN. Y. Sun, November 90, 10 =
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1917-12-01
TOO MUCH GROSS INJUSTICE
TO MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT

''In the history Of some the great
est States of our Union there is too
much of gross injustice and the deni
al Of rights of our citizens OF African
descent. This surely is not the time
when any discrimination in the admin
istration of Justice should be permit
cd against q race which is bearing its
full share of the burdens OF our social
fabric, and furnishing many thousands
of men who are trf ming themselves
to fight for their country. When
American soldiers ere fighting upon
the battle fields of Europe for free
dom Of the world W. should exercise
special care that so far as possible,
injustice should be banisheG from our
own borders. The trained officer who
has considered this cese for the Com
monwcalth having reported against
the return Of the defendant, l feel
compelled to act accordingly, very
greatly as | regret not to grant any
request made by Your EXccllency."
II was announced at the Governors
office that Johnson who has been
he'd in default Of $4,000 bail on q
charge Of being T. fugitive from jus
tice. will be released forthwith.
Times Disratch.l