The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1918-10-18

Is called to tier attention, as II nlti-
mately should be, that the activity OF
a largely Germanized industry IS re-
dueing the barrage support and ord
nance equipment OF their boys. are
they going TO rally TO tie support of
/ that industry?
Why We Are Wet
Most brcweries are controlled and
operated by Germans.
These Germans have, Tor many
years, encouraged and urged their
employees, and the employees of re-
tail liquor establishments, to organize
Unions and affiliate themselves with
the National Federation of Labor.
These Germans have supported and
aided these unions and have never to
any pronounced extent opposed them.
This has all been in prospective an
tieipation of Der Tag" when it might
be convenient for them to try and
take advantage of labor's noble motto
and policy Of "One for all, and all for
one"
Now, when the que stion OF making
the nation dry by legislation comes up
all for one labor is asked To rally
TO the call OF the bartenders' union
and other unions subsidized by the
brewcries with the added demand.
under the implied penalty OF with
drawing a certain element OF labor
vote and support that men in elective
offices shall not take drastic action.
The argument is presented by the
brewers that OF all industries the
breweries have been labor's staunch-
est and most generous friends, having
yielded (0 to all the demands OF la
Dor and been their hackers and sup
porters on all occasions. OF course,
the political support gained thereby
and the morale effect upon labor
which they figured could naturally
q be expected to patronize such
loyal % friends was no considerable
part OF their thoughts and intentions.
Recently they came forward, like
loyal Americans" and invited heav-
Ter taxation as a compromise to put
off tie day of oblivion, hoping thereby
to do two things;
| Cd Make the revenue appear so
inviting to the Treasury Department
as 10 insure, so they hoped at least
the passive acceptance of liquid crime
as war necessity by Congress.
~ To enable the dealers 10 en-
courage patrons Gas many are now
doing) to drink as a patriotic duty
and secondary revenue method OF
buying War Savings Stamps which
they reason their taxes arc equiva-
lent to.
We Have Been Hoodwinked
Together with all the rest of us,
labor has been hoodwinked, deceived
cheated and robbed, and with the rest
of us, made partially inefficient and
therefore, more susceptible to temp
tation by the German liquor interests.
Mostly to fatten German lords with
woe-begotten gains but partly as a
striking example of the hydration OF
the German liquor propaganda in its
desire to control American politics
and reduce American labor efficiency
and man-power.
All for oneh-regardles of how
wrong that one may be, is the Ger
man idea III Germany today The all"
has sacrificed its all and two million
lives of industrious German working
men for the "one" autocrat who is
wrong, evil and accursed and today
we are combining and giving our all
and will continue to do so, rich and
poor, employer and employee, black
and white, brains and muscle, shout
der to shoulder, until that one is
down, doomed and damned.
"All for one" is noble inspiration
when rightly used and when that
one is right. it is safe bulwark on
which to build the best OF American
lideals-"all for one"--all for France
but when that one is wrong, its
wrongs should be righted and its evil
influence rendered harmless.
American labor has been deceived
by German propaganda and its high
est ideals made, ofttimes in the past,
: instruments of Hunnish design, and
like labor, all men, Presidents, legis-
lators, business men and farmers have
quietly allowed this cancer to grow
in Our social system. But labor is not
downed, and with its ponderous vot'
ing force it is gradually cutting away
the diseases fastened upon US By the
Judas Hun.
This is Magma Charta: You cannot
hoodwink labor and profit by it in the
long run. As he is fighting the Hun
over there, shoulder to shoulder with
his employer, so he car be depended
upon to fight shoulder to shoulder