Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1917-09-27
CINCINNATI VETS
Are OPPOSING
iowa DRYS
Eastern Liquor Corporations Seek
to Defeat Dry Amendment in Iowa

10 UeIsaE Dry Amendment III Iowa
Des ,Moines, 1a.-So far as has been
publicly developed, the only organized
! opposition to the proposed dry consti-
tutional amendment to ibe ycNed on at
a special election to be held in Iowa
on October Is comes from liquor cor
porations in Cincinnati.
For some time, Iowa news papers
have been receiving more or-less regu-
larly, press publicity sheets, sent out
anonymously from Cincinnati. There
has been nothing on these clip
sheets to Indicate their origin, but it
has been determined they emanate
from the publicity bureau maintained
in the United Bank Building in Gin
cinnati by the National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association. This Bu-
reau is conducting an educational
campaign in Iowa seeking to show the
people Of the state the error of their
ways in voting the state dry.
AT the offices of the Allied Temper
ance Committee here, it is pointed out
that all OF the scandalous stories of
alleged shortcomings on Prohibition
come from a long ways off and moth
Ing is said about the failure of the
same policy in Iowa where such sto-
ries could be@verifed. At any rate.
all this alleged educational matter
comes from the wet headquarters IN
Cincinnati and does not originate in
iowa
Some years ago the National Whole.
sale Liquor Dealers Association Or
gained this Bureau which has since
Hooded the mails with literature eX-
horting the people to beware of Pro.
hibition and insisting that facilities
for getting drunk should be legalized
and protected by law For how long
can a man get soused unless some
one provides the proper opportunity.
Brewery Workers Get Into 1t.
experimenting the efforts of the
publicity Bureau of the National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Associa-
tion, advertisements are beginning to
appear in Iowa labor papers signed by
:he international Union of the
United Brewery Workmen," which
organization also is said to have its
main headquarters in Cincinnati. This
Cincinnati organization of alleged
brewery worlmen appeals to the peo
pie of iowa to beware of the constitu.
tional Prohibition amendment for the
following Seasons:
This Prohibition Amendment is
| putting handouts on democracy, be-
cause you thereby restrict yourselves
! to ever legislate on the subject except
Tor Prohibition. Ii this amendment
! is rejected at the polls we retain the
/ right to legislate as the people may
| desire"
| Replying to this idea the Allied
/ Temperance Committee of Iowa have
i this TO say:
The people who enact this consti-
tutional amendment can repeal it, The
people cannot enact a statute; only
the legislature can do that Iowa has
J iuggled with this liquor question for
half century and now the people
! propose to take it out of politics BY
putting the dry policy in the consta
tuition, thus putting it beyond the
power of outside brewery corporations
/ to juggle repeal through the legis.
lature thus defeating the will of tina
/ people,"
Wet Organization Eegun.
The actual organization of the OPP
4 ponents OF the dry constitutions
amendment is headed by Carl Mink
ley, representative Of the Interna
tional Union of the United Brewery
| Workers of Cincinnati, who Is now
speaking and organizing the opposi
ton to the drys in the eastern par
4 of the state. Mr.. Minkley has Spoken
at FIT. Madison and Ottumwa and is
making tour of the state. He hopes
to arouse the labor voters and ge
them to oppose the attempt of tn,
drys to make prohibition the perman
ent policy of the state. Under thi
program, the outside brewers would
be enabled to keep the liquor ques
ton in Iowa politics and, at some on
perfume moment, restore the oil
Mulct law if possible. The Cincinnati
brewers regard this as the last chanc,
that they have to defeat the attemp
of the people to make permanent til,
state wide dry pDTjcy