The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
OUR new ELECTORATE; SUFFRAGE
as., an AND PROHIBITION A DUAL ENTENTE
Opposed by Liquor Traffic and Alliance
Womans Vote, With Superior Intelligence and Moral
Outlook, Will Help Every Noble Cause
BY Samuel Wilson

EMBELLISHMENTS were pdlQ lot by inc
Macon County Retail Liquor Deal
ers' Association.
In an address by President Knude
OF the Illinois Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation, he said of suffrage, at is the
childless, homeless, over-ripe maiden
and the owners of detected, hen
pecked husbands that are clamoring
for votes. The franchise in he
hands of such would shortly lead this
country to ruin and destruction
Nugent Bitter Anti
In New Jersey, for many years, the
liquor dealers official organ bitterly
opposed woman suffrage-and coupled
it with Prohibition. And woman
suffrage was coupled with Prohibition
in the speeches made, and in the res
olutions passed by the brewers and
liquor dealers conventions. James
X. Nugent, for instance, liquor deal
ers' attorney, and general defender
of the lawless liquor traffic, was, up
to the last moment, bitter opponent
of woman suffrage. Over and over
again, he has expressed himself in
terms such as he used i'll speech
before the Gottfried Kruger Asso-
citation, at its annual banquet in the
Kruger Brewery, Newark, as reported
in the Newark Star, March 10, 1915,
Mr.. Nugent, who was former city
counsel, declared:
Yesterday | could show you howl
ing Dervishes riding around the city
declaring that women should get the
vote, and | warn you that should they
get the vote you will be ruled as they
see fit, and not as your conscience
dictates or according to the Consti-
tuition Of our nation and state"
The Jersey Journal of February Is,
1915, contained the following item
which voiced the sentiments of the
liquor dealers of New Jersey:
THE Membership Committee of
the Liquor Dealers Protective
League of New Jersey had confer
ence with local liquor dealers yes
terday afternoon at Teutona Hall on
Newark avenue, opposite the court
house. George T. Carroll, president
OF the state League, presided and the
hall was crowded. Sunday closing
was not discussed, but few remarks
were made by several speakers rela-
tive to what might happen to the liq-
uor interests should the women Of
New Jersey be given the right to
vote. TIE members were urged to
use their utmost endeavor to defeat
the woman suffrage movement"
Z. The brewers of America were the
main supporters of the German
I American Alliance, and the investiga-
4 ton Instituted by the state Of Texas
i during the Woman Suffrage Cam
paign in that state, developed the fact
that Adolphus Busch, OF the An
heuser-Busch Brewing Company, had
contributed 100000 to the campaign
OF the anti-suffragists. A letter from
Mr.. Busch was introduced as evil
dence, and in that letter he stated
that he did not object to giving
100000 to help the fight in Texas"
and that "the Anheuser- Busch Com
pany would be fair"
German-American Alliance Against
Suffrage
The main financial and voting
power of the liquor traffic in America
has always been the foreign-born or
the sons of the foreign-born popula-
ton, and the German-American Alli-
ance, whose charter was revoked by
the unanimous vote of the federal
Congress because of its disloyal prop
uganda, was as viciously opposed to
woman suffrage as it was to Prohibi-
ton, and fought it bitterly in its
! propaganda.
| When the woman suffrage referen-
dunn passed the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture i'll 1915, the German-American
Alliance lad a representative to speak
against suffrage, and used its influence
i'll canvassing candidates before the
election to ascertain how they stood
on the question.
The following is taken from cir
cular issued by the German-American
Alliance of Nebraska:
| "Our State Alliance took most
decided stand against woman suf-
frage in the annual convention held
in Columbus on August 25. Our
i German women do not want the right
to vote, and since our opponents de-
sire the right of suffrage mainly for
the purpose OF saddling the yoke of
Prohibition on our necks, we should
oppose it with our might"
And this from a circular issued by
the Michigan branch of the Alliance,
in March, 1913:
"If the suffrage would be laid into
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