The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-06-06
BREWERS OF OHIO
GIVEN HARD JOLT
Through Suspension Of German
American Alliance.
WILL HELP MAKE STATE DRY

With the Alliance Compelled 10 DIS
band Because Of DisloYai Tendency
and With Brewers Largely the
Financial sackers Of the Alliance.
Observers Believe the Voters OF
the State Will Make 9 Clean Sweep
Of the Entire Liquor Traffic at the
November Election.
Columbus, Ohio. - Observers OF
events, vets as well as drys, are of
the opinion that Ohio brewers and
the wet cause in this state were dealt
a blow from which they cannot re-
cover when the Ohio Anti-Saloon
League forced the man-American
Alliance of Cincinnati to give up its
charter on the ground that the or
ganization was disloyal to the gov
ernment.
Ever since the war begin, the Ger
man American Alliance has been un-
der suspicion and this suspicion grew
as the testimony given before the
United States Senate Judiciary Com
mittee on the resolution to revoke the
charter of the National German
American Alliance filtered through the
press. However, suspicion became a
reality when the Ohio Anti-Saloon
League dug up and published the
charter of the German-American Alli-
ance, of Cincinnati, granted by the
state. The full purposes of the or
ganization are set forth in the fol-
lowing:
"To maintain and defend German
ideals; to urge the teaching of the
German language in the public
schools; to assist in keeping public
schools out of politics; to oppose un-
reasonable restrictions on desirable
immigration; to favor the repeal of
such statutes which are antagonistic
to modern progressive thought and
which abridge personal liberty; to par
ticipate in movements affecting the
public welfare, and to accomplish
these ends we will adopt all such
measures as to the Alliance appear
reasonable and right; to try to influ-
ence public thought, political conven-
tions, political elections and appoint
ments through speech, press and other
honorable methods The Alliance
should be non-sectarian and non-par-
tisan. It's membership shall be com
posed of German-Americans, and such
others as the constitution and bylaws
may provide"
Then the Ohio Anti-Saloon League
asked the Attorney General to begin
custer proceedings, but before this
could be done, the Alliance virtually
entered plea of guilty to the charges
of disloyalty, by dissolving the incor-
poration.
The developments in the case con-
stitute a body blow to the brewers
The German-American Alliance was
largely financed by the brewers, and
had been active for the vets in every
campaign. From evidence now in
possession of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, the brewers financed the
Alliance with hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and the Alliance, il turn,
paid large sums to Bernstorff and DR..
Dernberg for use in German propa-
ganda work.
That the whole explosion will help
materially to make Ohio dry this year
is the general belief. The Ohio Brew
ers' Association sees the ground slip
ping from under it, and is yelling Ius,
tily in an effort to make the public
believe its members are patriotic. In
view # the brewers close Relationship
with the German-American Alliance
the public refuses to be convinced.