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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
Wet Lawyers Fail
to Secure a Veto
at Hearing on Bill
Mayer and barrow Answered by Nc
Bride and Ebbert

At the hearing before Governor
Lowden on the blind tiger bill, Fri
day June 20, the liquor interests,
seeking TO persuade Governor Low
den to veto this measure, were rep
resented by Levy Mayer and Clar-
cnce Darrow. The dws were repre-
scented by Senator William S. Jewell,
+. Scoot Mcbride and Captain +. B.
Gilbert.
The entire argument practically re-
duced itself to the construction to be
placed on the words give away in
Section OF the bill. Levy Mayer and
Clarence barrow argued that these
words prohibited the gift TO guest
in a home as an act of hospitality.
If this construction were true. then
any home in the state of Illinois
where Intoxicating liquor was served
as an act of hospitality under Sec
ton Is of the act could be declared
common nuisance and abated as
SUCH
Mr.. Mayer also spent considerable
time in arguing that because OF the
wet and dry vote i'll Chicago, every
member of the Legislature from Chi
cago who voted for this bill, misrep-
resented his district
On the first proposition, the state
= IL l.. l.,
TO Senate Bill $50 in which the words
give away" are used in the same
sense The Michigan Supreme Court
in three separate decisions has COLI
strued the words give away to not
apply to a gift to guest in the
home as an act of hospitality. Gov
ernor Lowden and Attorney General
Brundage were convinced that this
was the correct construction to put
on these words,
Mr.. Mcbride answered Mr.. Levy
Mayer on the question of the Ch,-
cago vote and showed that from the
actual facts OF the case, the Chicago
members o. the Legislature Wh
voted for the blind tiger bill did not
msrepresent their districts.
Senator Jewell presented the ques-
ton of the intent of the Legislature
in the enacting of this law, that the
sole purpose was to reach the blind
tiger or bootlegger and not to dis
turb the home life in the matter OF
serving Intoxicating liquors to guests
as an act OF hospitality.
Captain Gilbert answered the legal
points that were raised by MIR. Mayer
and Mr.. barrow.
The opponents OF the bill consum-
et. four and one-half hours in pre-
senting their case, while the propon-
ents of the bill speny one hour and
thirty MINUTES.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
C. 7. A. U. TAKES SkOT
At old John BARLEYCORN
Notification Propagandists are
Condemned
Attacks on 18th Amendment are
Un-American
President Wilson's Assistance
Invoked
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Congress Felicitated on Equal
Suffrage
Appeals for Disregard of Wet
Propagandists
Educational Efforts Must be Con-
tinued Until the Scientific Facts
About Alcohol are Fully Under
stood

The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of Chicago on June % passed
resolutions declaring the propaganda
intended to nullify the National Pro-
hibition amendment TO be un-Amer-
lean and calling upon President Will
son to refrain from interfering with
the enforcement of war Prohibition
on July l. The resolutions also con-
graduate Congress for submitting
woman's suffrage to the states and
congratulated Illinois on being one of
the first to ratify.
I'VE earnestly appeal to all law
abiding citizens to disregard the So
called warnings of the liquor advo-
cate Bolsheviki, whether the warn
ings come from American Catholics
or foreign enemies"
John +. Cunneen was elected state
president and John p. Melvin was
elected second vice-president. All
other officers were retained. The
Rev. Thomas F. Quinn, the retiring
president, was elected one of the dele
gates at the convention to be held in
New Haven, Conn, in August. The
Very Rev. Peter ]. O'Callaghan of
Washington, formerly pastor of St.
Marys church, Chicago, made the
principal address. He said.
We have been on the side of
the under dog. But now we are
on the victorious side of the tenn
perance cause. There is more
work than ever to do in the period
of reconstruction. There will be
bitterness over Prohibition be-
cause some of them will think
they have been deprived of the
means of extending hospitality to
their friends and we must con-
tinue education until the scien-
tihc truth that alcohol is poison
will be the common belief of the
man on the street.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
CHICAGO BREWERY WAGONS
DISTRIBUTE BUTTERMILK
Will Sell Buttermilk TO Swell Fund
for Free Milk for Chicago Babies

Discarded brewery wagons will be
used to peddle buttermilk through the
loop on Chicago's first dry day, July /,
according to an announcement in the
Chicago Tribune.
The Chicago free milk for babies
fund has planned the loop the loop
tour for the benefit of the thirsty
souls who may be left alive after the
celebrations OF June 50. Every cold
bottle of buttermilk that is purchased
on that day from the buttermilk squad
will bring two bottles of plain milk
for the children of Chicago's poor.
In addition to the money to be
raised in this manner the officials an
nounce that there will be buttermilk
shop opened in the loop July 7 and
that there will be distributing sta
ton ready to do business with the adj
vent of Prohibition where poor moth
ers may obtain milk for their babies.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
Wet Organization
to Keep Up Fight

Michael thinner, warden OF the
County Hospital was recently elected
president of the United Societies. In
his inaugural address he outlined
large activities for the organization
He declared that Chicago is entitled
to be heard in the matter of laws
that seek to limit the personal lber-
ties and habits of the people. APP
parently the United Societies will
continue to fight the battles OF the
outlawed liquor interests.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
DECENTRALIZATION ONLY
TWO-THIRDS COMPLETED

According to a Washington press
dispatch of June Is, the army is only
two-thirds demobilizeG, says an an
nouncement by the War Department.
1t is declared that it will take more
than three months to complete the
work at the present rate of 1000
discharges month. During the first
ten days of June 10000 soldiers were
embarked from France, new record.
This announcement would indicate
that war Prohibition will be in force
at least three months unless declara-
ton of the rehabilitation period
ended is made before rehabilitation
is actually completed.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04

The Daily Average was 90 Under
License
Has Been Reduced to Is Under
Prohibition
Chief of Police Says Cause is
No Liquor
No Adequate Enforcement Law
Either

The first Is days of June the aver
age number of arrests made daily by
the Toledo police were from one-ffth
to one-third the average daily num-
Der made in 1918, according to a
statement i'll the Toledo Blade based
on the police court record of that city.
The official record shows that the
first Is days of June the police arrest
ed 237 persons. During the CORE
spending Is days in May when the
city was wet the total was o54.
The Blade reporter asked the chief
of police how he accounted for the
big difference in the figures and the
chief merely replied, you know
The reporter pressed him for an an
swer and the chief answered in one
word, Liquor"
IF the average number of arrests
since saloons closed in Toledo is
maintained, it will be only 20 to Is
per cent of the number made in that
city when practically 400 licensed sa-
looms dispensed liquor six days in the
week and bootleggers worked on Sun
day. According to the police chiefs
1918 report the average daily number
of arrests in Toledo was o. under the
licensed liquor system. The average
daily arrests for the first Is days OF
June with the city dry was l3, and
that without adequate laws for the
enforcement of the dry amendment.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
WATER NOT SO BAD

After July the man with
thirst instead of seeking to sat
isfy it in a glass OF foaming
beer, will have to be content
with cup of cold water.
Here is his great opportunity!
If he refuses all substitutes for
the beer and surrenders abso-
lutely to The cold water he is
bound to awake to the fact that
he has never known what it
was to satisfy his thirst so COM
pletely before. The drink that
is without money and without
price and leaves his liberty
bonds still intact and his house
,unmortgaged is, after all, the
best thirst quencher in the
world.-Dr. Eugene Lyman
Fisk, in New York Herald
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
AMERICA WILL ACCEPT

Bassett Digbey, i'll special
correspondence to the Chicago
Daily News from Stockholm,
Sweden, contrasts the attitude
OF that country on intoxicants
with public opinion in America.
Speaking of his experience, he
says:
Nowhere is the temperance
question SO real as in America,
but no one. talked there about
spirits. And yet they are con-
fronted with total Prohibition
III a few months. | asked
large number of influential peo-
pie, politicians and others, Pro-
Libitionists and their opponents,
whether they thought that the
public would submit to Prohi-
hibition. None of them had the
least doubt OF it. 1t was, de-
clared with great incisiveness
that once a question is decided
by law in America the minority
always Loyalty accept the deci-
sion"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
Congress Prepares
Enforcement Bills
Strict Regulations Provided to Pre-
vent Violations

] AT the time OF this writing work on
the national Prohibition law enforce
ment code has been almost completed
For several weeks committees in the
House and the Senate have been hold
ing hearings and perfecting details of
the bill. 1t is expected that the bill
will soon be voted upon by Congress
and that it will pass with a good ma
jority.
! The following are some of the main
provisions of the proposed enforce
ment bill:
! Any beverage containing more than
onc-hal; of one per cent of alcohol is
Intoxicating liquor"
! When the wartime Prohibition act
or constitutional Prohibition goes in
to effect, it shall be unlawful to imam
ufactuic, sell, barter, give away,
transport, import, export. deliver, fur
nsh, receive or possess any intoxicat-
ling liquor except as authorized by this
act" The only exceptions are for
medicinal, scientific or sacramental
purposes, or where liquor is stored i'll
private homes, before Prohibition
goes into effect, for private use
Patent and proprietary medicine
manufacturers must prove to the COM
missioner that their products cannot
be used in place of Intoxicating liquor.
Liquor may be prescribed for me-
dcinal purposes only by reputable
physicians, and not more than one
prescription shall be given every ten
days. Pharmacists filling these pre-
scriptions must be licensed.
Advertisement of Intoxicating liq-
uor, by any method, or telling anyone
where he can get drink is prohibited
Bllboards with liquor ads must have
the power to paint them over or re-
move them.
Any picture OF brewery, distillery,
bottle, key, barrel or box or other
receptacle designed as an advertise
| Tlenl tuereOl, is lllSSdi.
No formulas or recipes for making
liquor, and any tables, substances,
compounds or preparations for the
same purpose may be sold.
Curb on Newspapers
No newspaper or periodical can
print Statements concerning the
manufacture or distribution of alco-
holc liquors, for which the paper re-
ceives compensation, unless with the
article is the following statement,
printed as paid advertising.
Drinking OF liquor in public or in
railroad train, automobile, dining car
or vestibule of train is prohibited
and conductors are given the power
to arrest.
Any person injured by an intoxicat-
ed person can bring suit for damages
against the person who sold or assist
ed in procuring the liquor for the in
toxicated person.
Bootleggers shall be fined not less
than $500 nor more than $1,000 and
imprisoned for not less than one
month nor more than year.
Any violation of the act on leased
premises shall constitute forfeiture
of the lease.
The Search Provision
Search for liquor may be made on
warrant issued by federal court,
court of record or United States
commissioner.
Liquor seized may be destroyed or
turned over to the government for
scientific or medicinal purposes, upon
conviction of the holder.
All vehicles used for illegally trans
porting liquor, including motor cars,
boats, buggies and airplanes shall be
seized by the officers, and disposition
or order by the court
|
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
A New Wet Agency 4
Showers Congress
With Card Protests
Congressman Yates Exposes and
Condemns Plan

An organization calling itself CAS-
ISOLATION Opposed to National Pro-
hibitions," with headquarters in Chi
cago, recently carried out a postcard
campaign against the passage of an
enforcement bill by Congress. The
card is a combination affair with the
name of the Congressman to be adj
dressed printed on it, with a message
TO the Congressman on the opposite
side, a place for the address OF the
person asked to send the card, and a
return card to be sent to the Asso-
citation as evidence that the person
receiving the protest card has sem
it to his Congressman.
The message to the Congressman
is as follows;
Dear Sir: The United States SUI
preme Court will determine whether
the Eighteenth Amendment is legally
a part of the constitution OF the
United States Why should you be
called upon. to accept responsibility
for bill to enforce that amendment
until it has been passed upon by the
body whose function and duty it is
to decide upon the constitutional
legality of measure SO vital to the
interests of 100000 people2
81 shall be sternly and irrevocably
opposed to you, or any other MEM
Der of the Sixty-sixth Congress, who
votes i'll favor of any bill providing
for the enforcement OF this amend
ment. Furthermore, | demand, as
one OF your constituents, that you
use every effort in your power to
repeal, on or before July 80, the So
called Sheppard amendment to the
agricultural bill. j
Very truly yours.
Congressman Richard Yates, re-
fcrring to the cards he had received
mostly from liquor dealers in Chi
cago and other wet cities, said on
the floor of the House:
This threat against an American
Congress by the brewers and bar
rooms OF Illinois is not voluntary
act of individual citizens voicing the
citizens opinion. 1t is the result of
an organized propaganda which
seeks to set at naught the constitu-
ton and seeks to overthrow this
form OF government "a propaganda
so we'll organized that it can afford
to pay for the wholesale printing of
threats against the Congress of the
United States"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04

A La Porte (Ind.) bootlegger made
weekly trips to Chicago bringing back
each time trunk full of booze. He
also brought back homing pigeon
owned by the saloonkeeper who sold
the whisky. As soon as he arrived at
LaPorte he would release the pigeon
which had message, attached to its
legs reading, Got by the thick heads
again" 1t is said he would have elud-
ed the police department if he had
left the pigeon in Chicago. As it is,
he is in the hands of the law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
DOES AMERICA WANT
PROHIBITION?

In the 80 states that ratified
SO per cent of the population
lives in dry territory. In the
three states that did not ratify
SO per cent of the population
lives in wet territory. The con-
gressmen who voted for ratifi-
cation represented SO per cent
of the population of the United
States. Eighty per cent of the
members of the legislatures
that ratified voted dry.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
SOME WET ADVICE

The Peoria Star says: "If the
dry leaders want to do their
cause infinite harm, they will
continue TO make it as odious
as they are now doing"
When will the vets ever
wake up and realize what is
odious 10 them is necessarily
odious to everybody else?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04

privacy of the home. That provision
semms to be entirely misunderstood.
The section authorizing a search
and seizure in Prohibition territory
contains this provisions: Provided,
however. no warrant shall be issued
TO search a private dwelling occupied
by two judges, and unless such resi-
as such unless such warrant is signed
dence is a place OF public resort. or
Intoxicating liquor is sold or kept for
sale in violation OF the law
I'm constituting this section, the at
torney general, in his opinion. says:
you also ask me whether, under any
circumstances. it would be lawful, un-
der the provisions of this law. to
search private residence for intoxi-
eating liquors in place where the
householder has Intoxicating liquor in
his possession for his own use and for
the use of his family and bona fide
guests. My reply is that there is no
warrant of law for search and seiz-
ure OF intoxicating liquor in private
residence on this statement of facts
"The proviso, however, is SO clear
In its language that ] cannot imagine
how the popular misrepresentation of
this section OF the law could have
arisen.
1T is said, however, that this pro-
vision may be used as pretext for
entering the private home for some
Interior or sinister purpose. II any
individual now desires to use the right
of search for such purposes, he can
do so under other statutes. Ii ones
private enemys desires to invade his
home for some improper purpose, it is
easier now to procure a warrant OF
search and seizure under the gambling
act than it will be under this act, If it
becomes a law.
As Immune as Ever
For, under the gambling act. the
affidavit would be as easily made and
would contain no more falsehood in
the one case than i'll the other, and it
requires but one judge to issue the
warrant, while under the proposed
law it requires two judges. With this
bill law, the private house where
liquor is kept, unless such liquor be
sold or offered for sale, | undertake
to say, is as immune as at present
from search and seizure. OF course,
if the private house be used for boot
Logging purposes, this law would
reach it. That is what was intended.
Some question has been raised as
TO whether private dwelling includes
an apartment. The attorney general
advises me there can be no doubt but
that it does.
"The subject of this bill has been
discussed for many years before our
people and before Our legislature. 1t
has been the issue upon which more
legislative contests have been. decided
in recent years than in any other issue.
No Ground for Veto
The legislature has finally acted.
1t is not claimed that the law is
unconstitutional. 1t certainly cannot
be said, after al, the years OF con-
troversy which have ragged around it,
that the bill was hastily passed.
There is no ground upon which. in
my opinion, | would be warranted in
vetoing this bill. 1t will, therefore,
become a law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04

Announcement has been made that
the Meadville Distilling Company's
plant at Meadville, Pa, will be sold
at auction.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1919-07-04
WELL, WHAT is THE
NEXT WET PREDICTION7

Confidence that President
Wilson will proclaim demobil-
ization before July l, thereby
preventing wartime Prohibi-
ton from going into effect on
that date, now amounts to a
conviction.-Champion of Fair
Play, June %, 1919.
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