The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-01-30
viii Ask Congress to Restore
Beer and Wine
LIQUOR JOURNAL SAYS
FIGHT JUST COMMENCED
Vets Back New Jersey Governor
For President
WET PROPAGANDA CONTINUES

The fight is not over. That fact
is becoming more certain and more
apparent every day. From many
parts of the country come reports of
great activity by the vets to over
throw the Eighteenth Amendment or
make il useless through securing the
repeal OF state and Federal enforce
inent measures.
Justin McGrath, editorial corre-
spondent for the rald-Examincr
writing from Washington on January
Is, said. The VETS are planning a
comeback They have hopes of Sc
curing enough legislators in the next
Congress to at least remove the re-
strictions against light wines and
beer" After explaining the contcn-
ton of the vets that the legislatures
OF various states ratified contrary to
the wishes of the people, the CORE
spondent continues
Will Fight Dry Candidates
What the vets now propose to do,
| am reliably informed, is TO employ
the same tactics to undo Prohibition
that the drys used to establish it.
Il am told that they will make no
effort to bring whisky back. They
will only demand an expression from
the candidate for the legislature o.
for Congress as to whether. if elect
cd. lie will vote for legislation that
viii permit the sale OF light wines
and beers.
candidates vho stand -out against
such commitments will meet with or
ganized opposition at the polls"
The leading article in the January
18th Champion OF Far Play, official
organ OF the liquor interests in this
part of the country, is headed as fol
lows:
FIGHT ON NATIONAL PRO
H1BITION HAS JUST COM
MENCED."
Tho so-called Eighteenth Amend
nent to the Constitution OF the
United States says the Champion
is now about to be enforced, and its
several weak points could not be coil
csted until now"
Proposed Legal Actions
The various legal moves of the vets
are then detailed Reference is made
10 the suit by the state of Rhode
Island, to be followed by similar ac
tion by the state of New Jersey, and
finally by the state Of Connecticut.
The holding OF referendum votes in
various referendum states that ratified
is mentioned as a final move by the
vets in case their other attempts to
set aside the Eighteenth Amendment
end in failure
Wayne B. Wheeler. General Coun-
sci for the Anti-Saloon League OF
America, is quoted by staff CORE
spondent of the Tribune in a Wash
ington dispatch dated January rs as
saying:
This Fight Is Never Over
Our opponents would not let us
quit even if we desired to do so. The
liquor interests seem disposed to
spend their last dollar to defend their
outawed traffic. In addition to all
old liquor organizations two new ones
have been formed-the Association
Opposed to National Prohibitions and
the Association Opposed to the
Eighteenth Amendment.
I'm Rhode Island, Massachusetts,,
New York, New Jersey, Wisconsin
and several other states, wet organl-
cations and some wet officials are en-
couraging defiance to National Prohi |
bition.
THE court attacks on National Pro-
hibition, the threat of the liquor or
ganizations to elect a wet Congress
and resubmit the Eighteenth Amend
ment and to elect wet legislators to
carry out their program, is sufficient
challenge to the friends of Prohibi-
ton to get busy rather than quit"
Beer Bill introduced
In his inaugural address Governor
Edward |. Edwards of New Jersey, on
January 20, reiterated his campaign |
pledges to use every lawful means to
prevent New Jersey from going dry.
Soon after his Inauguration bill was
introduced in the New Jersey logisla-
ture in which Intoxicating liquors are
defined as those in excess of 4 per