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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
BOSTON TRANSCRIPT CORRESPONDENTS
GHOST STORY REFUTED BY League SUPT.
Superintendent Davis of the Massachusetts, AnSaoon League
Appreciates the Compliment for League Efficiency But Denies
Inference That Rockefeller Millions Control League

The following appeared in recent
Transcript article signed by Brigham,
the Washington correspondent:
ut is stated to your correspondent
as a fact by men in position to
know the truth that John ID. Rookie
Teller has expended no less than ST.
100000 to make the United States
dry. The authority for this infor-
nation is OF such an intimate char
acter that its accuracy can hardly be
doubted. The Prohibitionists have
achieved their object i'll accomplish
ing the adoption of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the passage OF an
enforcement law SO strict that the
most apparently innocent soft drink
might easily violate the law without
such intention on the part of its
manufacturer; but it is hardly with
in the province OF Mr.. Rockefeller
or any other private citizen TO pour
forth money in unlimited quantities
to insure enforcement of the law.
This clearly is matter for Congress
and the Federal Government. Never
theless it is we'll recognized that un-
less an army of prosecuting officers
is organized and Congress appropri-
ates untold millions for the support
of such an army, the intent of the law
will succeed only in part and thou
sands of citizens will be heavily fined
or imprisoned, while thousands more
will go free.
"Mr. Rockefeller in his campaign
for the Prohibition Amendment, en-
ployed the same quality of brains
that has made the Standard Oil Com
pany success, with the result that
no finer working organization ever
existed than the Anti-Saloon League
Its affairs were governed with an in
telligent sureness which almost never
made Mistake, and while the coun-
try was distracted with the turmoil
of world war, the agents of the
Anti-Saloon League, directed by the
cleverest lawyers that money could
hire, were setting up the pins in every
state, city and hamlet to knock John
Barleycorn off his perch, They sue
ceeded beyond the most horrible
imaginings of their opponents. Now
the question is whether the same un-
matchable support for the enforce
ment of the law will be available.
As long as Mr.. Rockefeller lives
he is now eightey-one, and still play
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27

ing goif-doubtless it will"
The following letter was addressed
by superintendent Davis of the State
League to the editor OF the Tran
script:
My attention has been called to
recent article i'll the Transcript
originating with your Washington
correspondent, Mr.. Brigham. l
quote from the article as follows:
ut is stated to your correspondent
as fact by man In position to
know the truth, that John d. Rookie
Teller has expended no less than ST.
100000 to make the United States
dry. Mr.. Rockefeller in his
campaign for the Prohibition Amend
ment, employed the same quality of
brains that has made the Standard
Oil Company a success, with the re-
suit that no finer working organiza-
ton ever existed than the Anti-Sa-
loon League
1T is very pleasing TO one who has
been actively identified with the Anti
Saloon League for many years to
learn that your correspondent be-
lieves that no finer working organ
ization ever existed This is more
than even the most ardent friends OF
the League have ever claimed.
"The statement that John D..
Rockefeller has expended no less than
$l2000.000 to make the United States
dry may or may not be i'll keeping
with the facts. I am not in posi-
ton to know what Mr.. Rockefeller
has contributed to any other organ
ization than the An:i-Saloon League.
From time to time Mr.. Rockefeller
and his son, John D. Rockefeller, ]r.,
have made small contributions to the
Anti-Saloon League, the total only
amounting to few thousand dollars
in period of over twenty-five years.
Never at any time have either of the
Rockefeller's or any person repre-
senting them controlled the opera
tons of the League or had any part
in shaping its policies.
II am afraid that your correspon-
dent has not gone to original sources
for his information and has swallowed
hook, bait and sinker' the propagan-
da of the wet interests. In the inter-
est of fair-play and accuracy of
statement, ! am sure that you will
be glad to correct the statement con-
tanned in Mr.. Brigham's article"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
NO STATE enforcement
CODE; STATE LOSES fines
Not a Dollar of Half Million In
the Fines From Bootleggers
Goes to Buckeye State
A MOST FOOLISH POLICY
Refusal to Cooperate With Fed
eral Government Working an
Injustice to Taxpayers

During the past year lines assessed
i'll the United States Court at Cleve-
land, Ohio, aggregated more than
1887, 000 According to the United
States district attorneys Office, most
of this money was collected from
persons convicted of illegal liquor
selling or manufacturing. More than
500 cases OF alleged violation OF the
liquor law will be ready for the Sep
TENDER federal grand jury and the
Cleveland court will collect thousands
more in fines before the close of the
year. 1t is estimated that with the
fines collected in Toledo, Columbus,
and Cincinnati, the aggregate will
exceed a half million dollars.
Not dollar OF this money goes
to the state or the political sub-divis-
ions OF the state All OF it goes to
the federal government. The reason
for this is that Ohio has no dry en-
forcement code. The Legislature
passed an adequate code but the drys
were not sufficiently strong to pass
it with an emergency clause and
therefore it was referred to the voters
where it was defeated.
The Legislature last winter passed
another code and this. too, will be
referred to the voters. II the voters
are wise they will approve the code.
The federal government will enforce
the law without Ohio's assistance il
necessary, but with state code in
effect, not only will cooperation with
the federal officers on the part OF
state and county officials be assured,
but the state will come in for share
OF the fines collected.
The same situation probably pre-
walls in other states where no code
has yet been put on the state statutes.
Prohibition is here to stay and the
states might as we'll accept the situa-
ton and enter heartily into program
OF enforcement with the federal gov
eminent.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
SCRANTON BOOZE RAID
TIPPED OFF is REPORT

Trained government sleuths arrived
in the city OF Newcastle, Pa, on Au-
gust II to take steps toward making
Scranton dry, but hours before the
government men arrived the saloon
men had descriptions OF them and
knew about what time they would
reach the city. AS result of the COM
ing of the special crew, stocks were
hastily removed to cellars, and hall
ways and darkened rooms and even
red-nosed regulars were compelled to
sneak stealthily into Railways and
corridors to get their nip: Saloon
men announced their opinion that the
crusade would blow up in few days
and bars would again be open and
doing business.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
= FEDERAL AGENTS NOT
GUILTY OF MURDER
Dry Officers Acquitted of Murder
Charge in the Virginia
Federal Court
AID LAW ENFORCEMENT
Richmond Paper Says Verdict
Will Go Long Way in
Stopping Bootlegging

Federal Judge Mcdowell of the
United States District Court for the
western district of Virginia has made
it plain that federal officers will be
protected in their fight against the
moonshiners which will undoubtedly
have the effect OF giving the officers
fresh courage and will make the un-
dertaking of the lawless element to
nullify the laws OF the country haz-
ardous venture. The Evening Jour
nal of Richmond for August IS in
commenting upon the case referred
TO, says:
when Judge Mcdowell OF the
United States District Court for the
western district for Virginia took the
indictment against the federal officers
charged with having killed moon
sinner in Patrick county a few days
ago and wrote thereon, we the jury
find the accused not guilty. he did
more to put an end to bootlegging
and moonshining in Virginia than has
been done since the state voted liquor
out.
-Four or five officers had been in
dicted for the killing of man who
had big machine loaded with whisky
and the prose sutton was bitter against
the officers. The case was tried at
Roanoke. Judge Mcdowell is quoted
in newspaper as having said from
the bench that he did not believe the
statements of the prosecution and to
have added that had the verdict been
otherwise than in accordance with his
directions, he would have set the
same aside.
"That this step. will have great in
fuence in breaking up the illegal liq-
quor business which has long flour
ished in the state of Virginia is the
belief CT the state officers and the fed
eral officers"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
SCOTCH DiSTlLlER VISITS U. S.
Sir Thomas Dewar Opines America
Went Far Too Far in Prohibition;
Doesn't Know the People Did 1t

Lord Thomas Dewar, the Scotch
distiller, was a guest of Sir Thomas
Upton in attendance on the cup
races. In an interview in the Sun
and New York Herald August ), he
. is quoted as saying:
81 have watched the Prohibition and
restriction laws as they have been in
augurated in various countries and
my belief after coming here for the
first time in fourteen years is that
the American people have had some
thing passed that is too drastic for
the majority. / do not question that
regulation of the sale OF liquor was
quite necessary, but l have not seen
that it was necessary here to create
bone dry situation which results in
the law being constantly broken. In
England the hours are now five a
day instead of fifteen for the sale of
liquor in public places. Alcoholic
content has been reduced and the
business is in the hands of men OF as
high standing as are engaged in any
trade"
Maybe Lord Thomas doesn't know
that it was the American people them
selves who passed the drastic" anti
liquor laws. He probably doesn't
know that the so-called bone dry
law isn't the only anti-liquor law
that has been violated by the liquor
makers and liquor sellers They have
violated every law and ordinance that
has been enacted to regulate or con-
troll the liquor traffic and naturally
they are making no exception in this
case.
Ii liquor isn't menace to the peo-
pie and welfare OF nation why does
England limit the hours of its sale to
FIVE? Is any such limitation put on
the sale of clothing or groceries or
any commodity of necessity?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
SHOENHOEFER BREWERY
STOCK IN EQUITY COURT
One Charles O. Netterton Files Petit
ton Alleging Stock Purchase; Re-
straining Order Asked For

Count Oscar Bopp Won Obcrstadt
whose fight against government Gus
tody OF his million dollar dowry in
stock in the Schoenhofen Brewery
Company, Chicago, made him a prom
inent figure in the alien enemy cases
during the war period, has again
come into the limelight III federal
court.
A petition filed with the court by
Claude O. Nctherton declares the
stock which was seized shortly after
the war began by the alien enemy
custodian was purchased by him from
the Oberstadts in February, 1918, and
should be returned to him. He asks
that an order restraining Garyen
from returning the property to the
Count be granted Immediately.
According to the petition, Neither
ton paid 100000 for the stock. Part
was paid in cash and the balance in
notes and as security for payment of
the notes the certificates for the stock
were left with the Count and were to
be held by him until final payments
were met.
The Count had stormy career
during the war. While attempting to
reach Germany he was captured and
sent to an English prison camp.
Later his activities at his home in
McHenry county, Illinois, were in
vestigated several times by Depart
ment OF Justice agents.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
DOCTORS
MAY LOSE PERMITS

The state Prohibition director OF
Kentucky has cited 81 physicians and
II druggists of Louisville TO appear
before him early in September to
show cause why their permits to
handle whisky should not be revoked.
The Prohibition director declares
the men lave violated the Prohibition
law by issuing prescriptions for
whisky in greater quantities than
needed for medicinal use The di-
rector indicates that he may make the
investigation statewide by issuing
citations for physicians and druggists
in other Kentucky cities and towns.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
Geo. McGinnis

Under the caption, Marriage BY
Capture" the Chicago Tribune edi-
torially rescnts the attempt of two
Italians III New York City to capture
and marry two Irish girls. 1t justi-
fes its resentment in these words:
"The case is worthy OF considera-
ton in two respects We should
think it might remind those OF our
citizens who arc inclined to insist
upon importing into this country and
maintaining here customs, standards
and conditions in the country they
found it profitable to leave, that this
practice cuts both ways and is likely
in the long run TO injure themselves.
"There is just one justiiable course
Tor people who come to this country
to follow, and that is Loyalty to adopt
and support the standards and laws
of this country. That is the only
common ground in which they can
live in harmony with their neighbors.
II they arc not willing to do this they
ought to stay where the way OF life
they prefer is normal. Hyphenism is
a nuisance to this country and should
be stamped out as disloyalty to this
country"
SO say we all of Us, Chicago Trib.
Now if the Chicago Tribune will
rc-publish this editorial and put over
it the caption, Prohibition, we will
heartily indorse both.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
FEDERAL AGENTS RAID
OKLAHOMA PRIZE STILLS

An important source OF the whisky
supply OF Oklahoma City and what
officers claim are the biggest Illicit
stills ever found in the western dis
trict OF Oklahoma, were broken up
in Canadian county last week by led
eral Prohibition agents. The two
stills were OF giant construction.
Each was sea up in a dug-out a few
hundred yards apart Each had a ca
pacity of 100 gallons per day. One
arrest was made.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
VERSATILE FOUNTAIN
FOUND IN NEW YORK

Prohibition enforcement agents con-
fiscated soda fountain outfit in New
York last week, together with $50 gall
Ions of various liquors. The agent
said that the initiated could get al
most any kind of liquor by simply
knowing the key. Raspberry pro-
duced whisky, strawberry begot
brandy and lemon led to gin, they
charged.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT
WAS DRAFTED IN 1875
Has Been Designated as the 10th,
18th, 18th and 18th; First Intro
duced in 1878 by California Senator

Tic Nineteenth Amendment to the
Constitution OF the United States
which bears her name was drafted by
Mrs. Susan B. Anthony in 1875 aud
was first introduced in Congress in
1873 by Senator \. \. Sargent OF
California, and it is in the same Ian
guagc that the new principle OF the
national law reads:
Article -. Section /. The
right OF citizens OF the United
States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States
or by any state on account of
sex.
Section ,. Congress shall have
power by appropriate legislation
TO enforce the provisions OF this
article.
The amendment holds the record
of being before the country longer
than any other successful amendment
to the Constitution. 1t was intro
duced as the Sixteenth Amendment
and has been successfully the Seven
teenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth,
and has been before every session of
Congress since its initial appearance.
State after state gradually enfran-
chised its women citizens, beginning
with Wyoming in 1869. BY 1910 six
teen states had given women the
right to vote and fourteen states had
presidential suffrage previous to rati-
fcation of the Nineteenth Amend
ment
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
ELABORATE MOONSHINE
DISTILLERY UNCOVERED

In an artificial subterranean cham
Der built, at an expense of several
thousand dollars, with cement walls
and floor, with a heavily reinforced
cement roof, sodded and camouilagcd
with trees and shrubbery, near Whit
tiers birthplace in the Corliss hill
section OF desert woodland, Massa-
chusetts, Sergeant William Gavin of
Boston and federal officers last week
located one of the most elaborate
stills discovered in this section of the
country since the Nolstead act went
into effect
1t was a revelation i'll completeness
with furnace in full operation, a one
hundred gallon copper tank for dis
tilling purposes, and other para
phanclia and is barrels of mash
ready for distilling. Stylinas Au-
goustinas. Pole, was arrested
charged with being proprietor and
was released under $500 bail TO ap-
pear before Commissioner Hays in
Boston for arraignment on a charge
of violating the -Volstead code
The officers found 20 gallons OF one
hundred proof moonshine and are con-
fdcnt that they located one I'M
portant source OF supply Of contra
band liquor in Haverhill.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
CHICAGO SALOONS TO Be CLOSED BY
INJUNCTION FOR LAW VIOLATIONS
United District Attorney Says That Old Method of Merely
Filming the Propretors of Lavless Saloons Is Be
Abandoned for the Injunction Procedure

judges part after Mr.. Tinker had
shown that on July 50 Mexican,
Pedor Alvarez, was shot and seri-
ousiy wounded in the saloon in a
drinking brawl Mr.. Tinker said:
"This is the line OF procedure from
now on. When we find saloon open
and selling booze we are going to
close ii. Heretofore we have been
giving the owners 4 short sentence
but the saloon remained open
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
TO MAKE REAL BUG
JUICE

Another Berks county, IA,
distillery. according to a Read
ing dispatch OF August Il. viii
be converted into a plant Tor
the manufacture OF a useful
commodity. It is the large
Miller plant at Womelsdorf.
just acquired BY the Standard
Chemical Works OF Reading.
Instead OF producing poison
destructive to mankind. the
plant will now turn out a prod
uet designed to Kill bugs and
other plant pests. Tie COM
pany makes sixteen different
kinds OF bug and other destroy
ers and has increased lis capital
stool, from 100000 10 100000.
The Jour buildings with a
power plant with 800 horse
power equipment will be in
creased TO seven and the entire
plant will be fire proof.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27

The federal government has started
on new line of attack against Chi
eago saloon men. This was an
nounced on August 8 by Assistant
United States District Attorney
Tinker when he went before Judge
Lands and obtained an injunction
closing the saloon OF Joe Danyanovich,
East 93rd street. The injunction was
granted without comment OH the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
NEW YORK BONIFACE GETS
STIFF u. S. COURT FINE

Maxim's hotel and restaurant, New
York City, was fined $1,000 in United
States federal court July Fl on con-
viction of violation of the wartime
Prohibition laws. According to an
Associated Press dispatch, the presi-
dent and treasurer of the company
was sentenced to thirty days in Jail
and a bartender and two walters re-
ceived sentences of from thirty days
to two months on the same charge.
Those convicted were paroled in
custody of their counsel for one week
to give them time to make appeal.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27

Captain Hubert Howard. state Pro-
hibition director for Illinois, has an
nounced that approximately five
thousand physicians have applied for
whisky prescription books. The new
quarterly issue OF these books is
about ready aa4.la asa s...i
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27

Those who attend the Anti-Saloon
League conference to be held in
Washington, September 1917, should
If at all possible plan to remain over
for the fifteenth international Con-
grcss Against Alcoholism.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
GOVERNOR OF GUAM
RULES AGAINST LIQUOR

A San Francisco dispatch announces
a proclamation by Governor w. w.
Gilmore of Guam prohibiting the use
of tuba" under penalty of fine not
to exceed $500 or Imprisonment for
90 days, or both. Tuba is the native
national Intoxicating drink.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-08-27
AN EMINENT PHYSICIANS
ESTIMATE OF DRY LAW

DR.. Arthur Dean Bevan. Of
Chicago, one of the foremost
physicians of the world, is
quoted by DR.. w. Z. McClel-
land, special investigator for
the Federated Council OF
Churches in America, in con-
nection with the social and eco
nomic effects of Prohibition, as
saying: 81 think Prohibition is
the biggest thing that ever hap
pened in this country"
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-07-23

ments. BY an act OF the Continental
congress Of September 20. IT'S the
treasury was organized with an au-
ditor. comptroller and treasurer. and
the same officers still run the treas
ury under the secretary and his as
sistants, and all paper money and
bonds have the seal. not Of the
United States Of America, but OF
the treasury Of North America. 1t
was the United States of North Amer
lea which made treaties with France
and Spain in ITS, Benjamin Franklin
acting as commissioner for Congress.