The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-08-29
Brownsville, Pa. Has Reaped
Great Benefits
Improved Conditions Have Fol-
lowed Prohibition
Jails Are Empty While Idlers
Find Jobs
SEAT OF REBELLION
Washington Fought Movement
Started Here
Until July Booze Ruled the
City
Changed Conditions Have
Brought Millenium-Like At
mosphere, Says Newspaper

Brownsville, 10 located ffty-three
miles south of Pittsburgh. on the east
bank OF the Monongehela, is one OF
Pennsylvania historic towns. In WIS.,
iting it, one finds that many of its in
habitants take no small degree of
pride in, pointing out its connection
with important persons and events.
Standing on Market street they point
TO the spot across the river where
James g. Blaine was born and reared
and to the old churchyard nearby
where sleep his kindred. Within a
stones throw stands the house
where Philander c. Knox was born
and reared And not far away stands
the home in which grew up Percival
Phillips OF the London Times, one of
the worlds half-dozen best known
war correspondents.
They show you the house where
Lafayette was entertained when he
made his second visit to this country.
They point to the old boat landing
where James K. Polk, Thomas H..
Benton and many other famous
statesmen OF the southwest spoke to
the citizens OF the village as they
were leaving the boat to take stage
for the National Capital.
And then there is one event they
will not forget. They will remind you
that you are standing on the very
spot where the instigators of the
Whisky Instruction had their meet
ings, and stirred up rebellion which
cost George Washington more than a
million dollars to subduc. And this
fact will cause you to cast your eyes
about you and discover that whisky
making has been one of the leading
enterprises of the town from that day
to this. ..
Time was when Brownsville was
the metropolis of all that part of the
state which lay beyond the noun
tainss' Today IT is prosperous rail-
road ard coal center, with a commun-
ity OF more than ten thousand people,
including South Brownsville and
West Brownsville Up until July l.,
booze had been made and sold in
great quantities to its people.
Editor Kelley of the Brownsville
Telegraph has been telling us in his
paper about the new conditions in
these latter days. Read what he has
to say:
with the borough jails empty and
saloons sans customers, Prohibition
has brought an era of peace to the
Brownsvilles unequalled in several
generations. Barroom idlers have at
least condescended to accept jobs
here and there, and it is possible for
women folks to occasionally risk a
trip through the Neck without having
to thread their way OBVIOUSLY and
precariously through an Interviewing
knot of more or less bibulous per-
sons.
Even the industrious justices of
the peace have felt the effects of the
change and the squires' mills are
grinding other grist than the sordid
stuff which was wont to form the
usual daily calendar
"Some are using their leisure time
in benefitting the community by
making two houses grow where only
weeds and rubbish were wont to
thrive. Others again have found time
to seek nature in her own surround
ings, look to their gardens and oc-
casionally harvest a few quarts OF
blackberries.
with a few more months of this
millenium-like atmosphere, even the
preachers may probably find them
selves, like Otheilo, with their occu-
pation--or at least that part of it
which consisted of announcement of
the drink and the advice to the drink
ers-gone, for which it is sincerely
believed they have no regrets"