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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
BREAKING HOME TIES"
Famous Picture Is Said to Have In
fluenced Bryan to Get Into the
Fight Against the Saloon

We are indebted to the ST. Louis
Post Dispatch for the story of how a
celebrated picture converted William
Jennings Bryan to one of his most
widely known principles, namely, ma
tion-wide Prohibition.
Hoveden's painting, Breaking
Home Ties" with its hopeful youth
bidding farewell to his mother, while
the family stand about the rural living
room in characteristic attitudes Of
pride and parting, is we'll known to al
art lovers. Few paintings convey such
strong picture of aspirant youth, full
of ambitions for the future.
The strong appeal of this painting
impressed Mr.. Bryan more than any
other thing with the dangers witt
which young mans path in life is
beset, particularly the saloon, he de.
clared. He first saw this picture or
exhibition at the Chicago Worlds
Fair, where it was acclaimed one OF
the most popular paintings on exhibi.
ton. Bryan asserted that one need
not gaze upon this picture for long
until it becomes evident that the
mother depicted here is sending her
heart and hope out into the worlc
with the boy, with the admonition tc
keep the way of Righteousness, and
Mr.. Bryan feels that she also knows
that the saloon will be her boys stun.
bling-block.
With the saloon out of the way, Mr.
Bryan pointed out, the burden of this
boys absence would be reduced BY
more than half for the mother, and
the realization of her hopes for the
boy would be more likely than if il
were there to retard his progress in
life.
"The great load of misgiving in the
mothers heart when her boy leaves
home to make his own way in the
world" Mr.. Bryan said, would give
way to joyous hope were the saloon
removed from the path that he must
tread if he could go into the world
with no danger of temptation from
this menace to mind, morals and life
THE most pathetic struggle this
4 Il. 4
tween armed men upon the battle.
fields; it is the struggle of mother
to save her child from the traps mer
set for it."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
KANSAS CRAFTY BOOTLEG
GERS
They Are "Slick customers" but the
Officers Are Nabbing Them, Says
Topeka Citizen in Washing
ton Interview

Frank r. Doctor, of Topeka, Kan.
who is now in Washington, is au
thority for the statement that fedora
agents are enforcing the new Prohi
bition laws very rigidly in the West
Mr.. Doctor said along these lines:
Particularly have the federal
agents been active in those Sec
tons close to army posts. Some
wonderful schemes for getting
whisky into Kansas at different
points have been discovered; how,
the government sleuths will not
tell, but it would seem almost I'M
possible to ferret out some of the
carefully laid plans for lodging
the authorities.
For instance, recently a ship
ment of gas meters was seized
and it was found that the inner
mechanism was missing and the
meters filled with whisky. A To-
gallon jug of whisky was found in
a barrel of pitch. Inside head
of cheese was a copper tank con-
tanning whisky, but the cleverest
of all schemes, think, was that
of filling cocoanuts with the in
toxicants. The cocoanuts had
been carefully drilled where the
eyes had been, the milk taken out
and the shell filled with whisky.
Then the eyes were closed up and
tinted, so that only the closest
inspection could discover the
fraud. l don't know how the
government agents got on to this
trick, but they did just the same.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
NO MORE BROWN WATER

An Ohio newspaper man, very
fine fellow, who is abstemious in his
habits, but not teetotaler, and who
votes dry, has banished beer from his
ice-box at home, though he expects
to keep on buying glass of beer now
and then, when he's downtown.
He and his wife, especially in hot
weather, have ben in the habit OF
keeping little beer at home. They
have little chap, two and one-hali
years old, the finest little fellow ever
who thinks his dad is the best mar
alive. The parents have never given
their son beer.
Recently the little fellow saw his
parents drinking their beer. Daddy
he said, give me some of the brown
water you and mamma are drinking"
Daddy didn't give it to him. But
he did decide that henceforth and for
ever no more brown water shall gs
into that house.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
PEORIA ON SUNDAY A CITY
OF DRINKS

A Windsorian, who was in Peoria
recently, says that he saw more drunk
men in three hours there on Sunday
evening than he had seen in all the
cities where he had been in the last
FIVE years combined. DRINKS were
seen staggering along the main bust
ness streets and one girl was seen
leading two men-(presumably her
father and her brother), both so reel
ing drunk that they could scarcely
walk, even with her help. Saloons
were wide open-at the side doors
built back four or five feet from the
walk Front doors were closed, but
as one passed by he could see the
lights and hear talking inside. Peoria
is whisky cursed and is under the con-
troll of its distilleries. And, because
Springfield voted dry this spring the
vets are trying to get the state fair
away from Springfield and to give it
to Peoria.-Windsor Gazette.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Prohibition Helps
Big Southern City
Prohibition Is Improving Savannah,
Georgia

Here are few figures taken from
the Chiefs record for the whole 10
months of Prohibition (from May l,
1870, compared with correspond
ing period of open saloons in Savan-
nah, Ga:
. ARRESTS for assault with intent to
kill, 40; reduced to 10, or "a per cent
less.
Burglary 127, reduced to 60; AZ per
cent less.
"Disorderly conduct 2,117, reduced
to 1852; 81 per cent less.
Drunk and disorderly 1,l97, re-
duced to 343; II per cent less.
Larceny from the house Isl, re-
duced to 70; 48 per cent less.
Larceny from the person Fl, re-
duced to S; 76 per cent less.
Larceny after trust S., reduced to
43; p per cent less.
Murder 3, reduced to |; &C % per
cent less.
"Lunacy 81, reduced to %; 81 per
cent less"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Ask Governor to Help
Close Sunday Saloons
Churches Appeal to Governor Low
den in Campaign Against
Sunday Selling

The churches of Peoria have APP
pealed to Governor Lowden to en-
force the liquor laws in Peoria. Local
officials have disregarded all appeals
to close the saloons on Sunday and
to stop the sale of liquor to minors
and drunkards. 1t is understood that
the Governor has placed the matter
into tie hands of Attorney General
Brundage with the request that he
make investigation of the conditions
existing in Peoria and the county.
A letter addressed by the church
people to the Governor reads as fol-
lows:
1--WE assume the privilege of ad-
dressing you in behalf of the civic
and moral condition existing in our
city.
"Vice, lawlessness, laxity and in
difference in the enforcement of law
on the part of our officials are in the
ascendency in Peoria. Both city and
county officials permit the Sunday sa-
loon, sale OF liquors to minors and
drunkards. Gambling is allowed in
conspicuous places. Immoral resorts
are both known and countenanced.
Peoria's lawless condition gives a
public invitation to hundreds of law
breakers who are forced out of other
communities. By only good fortune
we have escaped the shame of the
open spectacle which has recently oc-
Cured in sister city.
1--WE claim to be part of a great
majority in the state of Illinois which
stands for law and decency, and be-
lieve Peoria should obey the law.
Past appeals have all received a
deaf car from local officials. We,
therefore, are appealing to you, as
Governor of all of Illinois, to fully
investigate the local situation and give
to us law enforcement"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Chicago Drys Must
Register to Sign
Only Registered Voters Can Sign Big
Dry Petition

In its campaign to secure the larg-
est possible registration on the part
of dry voters in Chicago, the Dry
Chicago Federation is posting notices
throughout the city. The posters call
attention to the fact that over 100000
women voters in this city are not reg
istered and that fully one-half that
number of men neglect their voting
privilege.
To sign a petition for a dry Chi
cago, voters must be registered in the
precinct where they reside at the time
of signing. The new state law of Hi
nois provides for registration OF all
voters in the city hall. The registra-
ton bureau is open for business from
9 a. m. until 9 p. m. except Sundays
and holidays, Room 308.
All who have moved or for any
reason are not registered should at
tend to this important matter at once.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
WHY FRANCE HAS NOT PROHIBITION
(By Staff Correspondent


At the annua. meeting of section
of the French National League
against Alcoholism held recently in
the great amphitheatre of the Sor-
bonnie and presided over by Profess
sor Debove, Secretary of the Acad-
envy of Medicine. Joseph Reinach,
parliamentary leader of the anti-al-
cohol forces, told of the need of leg
islation against alcoholism, why it
has not been obtained and how to
go about getting it.
He drew an impressive picture of
the ravages alcohol has produced in
the army, in the fields, and in the fac
tories; he described the deputies and
Senators as convinced in their hearts
of the harmfulness of the poison,
patent to all, unable to question
either the accusing figures furnished
to the Assembly by the militant anti
alcoholist, or the unsparing con-
illusions of the academies, but, never
theless, shrinking from applying the
remedy. They either voted for weak
and inadequate measures or refused
to sanction the only ones that would
be effective.
He paid tribute to the govern
ment for proposing to the Chamber
the suppression of alcohol and re-
GREETED that it had not insisted, be-
cause if it had and had been over
thrown on account of its stand upon
this question, nothing would have
been more honorable.
He blamed the Minister Of the In
terror then, as he did today, for no.
having forbidden, at the beginning
of the war, as he had right to do,
the sale of alcohol to minors, to
women, to soldiers and to workers i'll
the munition factories.
"The cause of this failure? Do we
not all know" asks M. Reinach. ut
is political interest. The brewers and
distillers and all their clientele of
slaves of alcohol are they not all
specters against whom it is only nee
essary to advance in order to make
them vanish?"
M. Reinach does not consider the
condition hopeless. He believes it
can be remedied and he tells how it
can be done. The temperance people
must become the political interests.
They must stir up big agitation
against the reelection of those Sena-
tors or deputies who, whatever their
merits, their deeds in the past, their
titles, their eloquence or their SER
vice, refuse to vote for the suppress
sion of alcohol.
at is not enough that you who are
here, who have been militants, should
refuse to vote for Them" said M. Rein
ach. "You must get others to join
you all over the country. You must
choose between alcohcl and the no.
ton and the race"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Booze Sellers DELAY
Making Of Many
War Products
Drinking Called Greatest Hindrance
to Manufacture of War
Materials

/
The effects of the use of intoxicants
by employees and the illegal sale of
liquor in certain industrial centers are
causing a greater delay in the pro-
duction of materials required by the
United States Government and the
Allies for war purposes than the short
age of freight cars, coal, steel or any
other materials used in manufacture
ing, combined.
The above is a statement recently
made by Stephen E. French, General
Manager and Superintendent of the
Althol Machine Company, one of the
largest manufacturers of fine tools in
the United States.
Incredible Treachery
"It seems almost incredible" said
Mr.. French in an interview with a
representative of the Christian Science
Monitor, ito think that we have in
our midst in these times, men SO un-
patriotic as to try deliberately to get
a livelihood by selling liquor to men
and making them unfit to do their
duty to their country in the field and
in the factories, to say nothing of the
loss of money from time spent in the
idleness because of drink, and the loss
of wages which should have been
spent in providing necessities for the
comfort of their families.
1.-THE man who breaks down the eff
| ficiency of men now by selling liquor
and making them unfit to produce
their share for their country and their
flag deserves no better fate than the
spy who will be backed up against
the wall to meet the just punishment
he deserves for his treachery.
Absolute Prohibition Needed
1--WE need absolute Prohibition for
the moral welfare of our people. We
need it for industrial efficiency in'these
times. We need it for the civilian as
we'll as for the soldier. We need it
to enable every man to do his full
share in this war 1t is time for every
man to realize that there are duties
to his country that can be served in
other ways than by wearing a uniform
and going to the front. 1t is time
for every man to join the army for
good government and loyalty and TO
demand nothing short of absolute
Prohibition"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
TWENTY-FIVE PREACHERS
IN JAIL

An exchange is authority for the
following story of how rs preachers
were lodged in Jail in North Dakota.
Some years ago Devils Lake, N. D.,
was reputed to be the worst town in
the state. That was before the Pro-
hibition law was in force. Times have
changed in this respect and Devils
Lake is not what it used to be. At
recent meeting of the North Dakota
Sunday School Association Is preach
ers were lodged in the county Jail in
this town because hotel accommoda-
tions were inadequate and the jail be-
ing entirely without inmates the jail
was adapted as lodging house.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

social problems will likewise be solved
by this one fact. Conditions OF hous-
ing, sanitation, health-all these will
be bettered. Men who now spend
their money in excessive indulgence in
drink will then spend it instead for
clothes and shoes and comforts for
their children.
eff women rid the land of the drink
evil, l believe great forward step
will be taken in the baby saving cam
paign. We may expect that the little
ones will then be raised in happier
and more healthful homes. Mothers
will be stronger and more reliable,
and fathers more fit for the care of
their families"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
A PEORIA PAPER ON PROHI-
BITION

The Peoria Star gives this profound
explanation of the Prohibition move
ment:
ut is only when the evils of the
saloon business are permitted to pre-
dominate that the great middle class
arises in its wrath and votes them out
of existence. Prohibition does
not settle the saloon question, it only
irritates and perpetuates it."
The chief trouble with this astound-
ing theory is that it does not at all
coincide with the facts. For example
Peoria is being continually irritated
by its lawless saloons while Rockford
has perpetually settled the question
and is devoting its attention and en-
ergies to other matters.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
He Is From Missouri
But This is Different

Representative L. c. Dyer of Mis-
souri, evidently does not wish to be
shown. In Congress several days ago
he said; "The President should in
terne the Anti-Saloon League lobby
lists during the war" He charged
them with seeking personal ambitions
and with lack of patriotism in trying
to set one element of the people
against another in war time.
According to the report in the Chi
cago Tribune, the cause of Mr.. Dyer's
attack was the action of an Anti-Sa-
loon League representative in ap-
preaching him with propaganda favor
ing Prohibition.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
ABOUT PEORIA

Let it not be forgotten that the dry
wave which has been sweeping over
this country is not the result of a
propaganda organized by long-haired
men and short-haired women. Its
force has been gathered from the pro-
tests of me- who have been jealous
of their personal liberty, but whose
patience has been exhausted by white
aproned politicians interested solely
in the ringing of the cash register
Peoria Transcript.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

At Macon, Ga, rapid progress IS
being made in the construction of a
million-dollar packing house by tho
conversion of the old Acme Brewery.
The plant will be in operation by tho
first of October and will have a ca
pacity of 100 hogs and 100 cattle per
day and will create steady market
for all kinds of live stock in that Sec
ton of Georgia.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Mrs. Lloyd George
Is Against Liquor
Says English Women Will End Drink
Evils With Vote

In a recent interview, Mrs. Lloyd
George was asked, ITO what purpose
do you think the women of England
will use the right to vote?"
Toward the solution of social
problems" she replied, "and perhaps
first of all their influence with the
vote will show in the handling of the
drink problem. think ultimately the
women voters will secure the aboli-
ton of public houses and of the liquor
traffic just as they have done in some
regions of the United States. II
women's influence with the vote final
, " does away with the drink evil as ]
think it will, many OF the other great
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Wisconsin League
Moves Against
Sunday Saloons

The Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League
has commenced a campaign against
the Sunday saloon. The attention of
the Governor has been called to the
fact that saloons in Milwaukee and
other places in the state are staying
open on Sunday contrary to the law.
The Governor has been asked to re-
move district attorneys and sheriffs
who refuse to enforce the state law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Boston Surprised
When Bars Close
Temporary Prohibition Establishes
Low Arrest Record

The old city of Boston was stag
gered on Tuesday of last week when
upon proclamation by the Governor
and Mayor the old town went dry
during military registration. The sale
of liquor was suspended not only by
saloons and grocers, but all hotel bars
with few exceptions, stopped liquor
sales.
The result was striking. With
745,000 of a population the police did
not make a single arrest up to 5
o'clock in the afternoon and only 20
up to midnight. The smallest "a
hour record in the history of that city.
The Pioneer.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Porto Rico Votes
for Prohibition
Favors Dry Policy by Great Majority

Porto Rico on July 10 voted dry by
an overwhelming majority. Prohibi-
ton was originally provided by Con-
gressional action and the recent cleo
ton registered the voters approval
of the Prohibition policy. The law
will go into effect March 2. In the
election, the drys cast oo,775 votes
while the vets cast only 61,2o5. In
San Juan the vote was SLY dry, and
2,255 wet. All the other cities on the
island were carried by the drys by
good majorities.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Don't Libel the
Workinqn,a1,

The allegations against American
labor by the brewers and the vets
should be fercely resented by any
fair man. The laborer is not going to
be a beer traitor, no matter what leg
islation is passed. The resentment
against the proposed war Prohibition
comes from the men who sell beer,
not from the men who drink it,
Waukegan Gazette.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
PEORIA'S SUBURBS CONDI-
TIONS RANK

There is small wonder that the war
department feared to locate a training
camp in Peoria when conditions are
so rank that mere baby girls are not
denied liquor ordered for them by
young men who have not begun to
shave.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

A Kansas City woman was taken
into custody last week and fined in
the local court for selling liquor IL
legally and was then turned over to
the federal authorities on a charge of
selling liquor to soldiers
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

$1,000 PER MAN PER COUNTy-strange
Invention startles world-agcnts amazed. Ten
inexperienced men divide $40, 900. Korstad.
a farmer. did $4,000 in IA days. Schleicher
a minister. s1os first II hours. $1,000 cold
cash, made, paid. banked by Stoneman in 3G
days: $4,000 to date. A hot or cold running
water bath equipment for any home at only
$3.50. Self-heating. No plumbing or water.
works required Investigate. Exclusive sale
or postal today ALLEN MFG. CO., J51
Allen Bldg. Toledo. Ohio.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

In Brooklyn IS saloons and sew
eral hotels are closed under federal
and state orders because they are To-
Gated near where important govern
ment war work is being performed.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

The saloon of John Schmidt at
Schmidts Mound Park near Alton was
closed for the first time in II years,
the second Sunday in July.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
National Model License
League Asks for Money
Claims to Have Confidence of the AS
sociated Press

The National Model Licens
League, of which Tom Gilmore i
President, has recently sent out al
urgent request for funds to carry Of
its publicity work. The letter i
signed by Is firms, evidently all en-
gagged in the whisky business, an
reads as follows:
We are making an earnest ap-
peal to you to help continue and
enlarge the work of the National
Model License League, which you
know is the greatest educational
and publicity asset our trade has.
Therefore it is essential that we
have more money at once to
carry on and enlarge our work at
this critical time.
Will you send your check for
$40, or more, upon receipt of this
letter, and send us monthly what
ever amount you feel able to sub
scribe? Our receipts have fallen
off materially, owing to the fact
that SO many states have gone
dry, thereby losing many of our
members and subscribers.
We think that this bone-dry law
is the rock upon which the Prohi-
bition movement will break, but it
is very necessary to crystalline
public sentiment along the proper
educational lines and strike while
the iron is hot.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03
Have Confidence of Press

The. big papers of the country
will handle practically everything
that the National Model License
League will give them without
cost other than the preparation of
the matter and office expense. The
press OF the country realizes per-
fect1y that the National Model
License League is working for
true reform within our trade.
We have the confidence of the
Associated Press, which handles
from time to time the statements
of national interest issued by the
National Model License League.
The National Wholesale LID
uor Dealers Association and the
United States Brewers Associa-
ton are considering plans to help
finance the League later on, but
until that time we need ready
cash.
From this letter it appears tina
has hurt the whisky bus
ness considerably in dry territory.
also gives some hints on the gentl
lrt of crystallizing public sentimen
llong wet lines. What does the AS
ISOLATED Press have to say about tn
,laims of the dstillers? Does
a part in the conf
lence" game?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-08-03

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