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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
BOOZE ORGANIZATION
SLURS SUPREME COURT
Quoted as Saying That Members are
Sensitive to Public Opinion and In
innate They Can be Influenced

According to General Counsel
Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Sa-
loon League, the following is quo
tation from confidential prospectus
of The Association Opposed to Ma
tional Prohibitions:
Members of the United States
Supreme Court are extremely
sensitive to public opinion. They
must be made to feel the weight
OF public opinion. This can only
be crystallized by the expenditure
Of a considerable sum OF money.
Mr.. Wheeler condemns this state
ment a. a slur on the Supreme Court
OF the United States and says that it
explains the wet propaganda which
has for months misrepresented the
Eighteenth Amendment and the Fed
eral Prohibition code. In comment
ing upon the statement issued by
Governor Edwards to the effect that
he had it from fair authority" that
the Supreme Court decision would
hold the Eighteenth Amendment UNI
CONSTITUTIONAL Mr.. Wheeler said;
The Supreme Court has never
heretofore made Governor Ed
wards or any other nullfcationist
its conhdant in announcing the
decisions OF that court in advance.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
UNDERWOOD'S LEAD CUT
BY THE LATER RETURNS
Was Leading Musgrovc by 1885 On
the Evening of May IL for the DEM
ocratic Senatorial Nomination

According to an Associated Press
dispatch, returns compiled on the
evening of May II by the Birming
ham Age-Herald from official returns
Of election supervisors and newspa-
per estimates, AZ of the Of counties
of the state showed Senator Under
wood leading L. B. Musgrovc by
1885 votes in the race for long term
Democratic senatorial nomination.
Judge Henry B. Foster, manager
for Mr.. Musgrove, declared great dis
crepancies had been noted in the pub
lished returns and those which he
had received from the Musgrove
workers throughout the state. He is
quoted as saying:
We do not conccde defeat by
any means. Already we have I'M
covered gross discrepancies in
reports published in the Under
wood press and the returns as
wired to Musgrove headquarters
by Our managers.
All the later returns have been
in favor of Mr.. Musgrove and we
are confident that the official
count will be sufficient to over
come the Underwood lead as
shown in unofficial returns. Mus
grove will be elected by the Sec
ond choice votes.
Judge Samuel w. Weekley has con-
coded his defeat for the long term
race. Both Judge Weekley and Mr..
Musgrove are pronounced drys while
Underwood is an aggressive wet 1t
is not at all unlikely that the official
count will show that the combined
vote of Weekley and Musgrove ex-
ceeds that of the vote given Senator
Underwood.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
EVANSVILLE WHISKY RING
To FACE JUDGE ANDERSON
Big Gang of Alleged Booze
Sellers Indicted by Federal
Grand Jury
POLICE CHIEF IN NET
Evidence That Fortunes Were
Made In Rum Running Un-
der Police Protection
POLICE CHIEF IN NET

The chief OF police of Evansville,
Ind, the sheriff OF the county in
which Evansville is located, the dep
uty sheriff of the same county, and a
local Republican politician were
among those taken into custody last
week by deputy United States mar
shalls charged with liquor law viola
tons. The men were indicted by
Federal grand jury in Indianapolis
on charge of conspiracy, the charge
being that they formed an alleged
whisky ring that operated in Evans
vile for year, and in which fortunes
we're made in bringing liquor into
Evansville from points i'll eastern
Kentucky.
There are about so men now under
arrest on this conspiracy charge and
all of them will be arraigned before
Judge Anderson of the Federal court
in indianapolis this week. All OF the
men arc under heavy bond.
A similar case is attracting wide at
tention in Minnesota in which the
same charge OF conspiracy is pre-
ferred against number of public
officials. This case involves the sher-
if Of Hennepn county minneapolis
who has been indicted and who has
been suspended from office by the
governor pending the outcome of the
trial which is now being conducted.
1t is charged that this Minneapolis
booze ring imported tremendous
quantities OF liquor from Canada and
disposed of it to bootleggers.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
JAPANESE LAUNCH SHIPS
WITH FLOWERS-NOT WINE

The Japanese observances attend
ing the launching OF ship as de-
scribed by writer in the Ways OF
Groton Iron Workers, says the New
York Evening Post are begun with
religious ceremonies. Then the ship
is released in the usual way but in
stead OF cracking bottle of cham
payne across her stem great guam
titles OF cut flowers, usually chrysan-
themums, and the sponsors bouquet
and a number of pigeons are dropped
from the launching globe suspended
over the platform, the sponsor pulling
a cord the flowers fall about the
launching party as the freed birds
circle overhead.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
!, -FOUR new ORLEANS BARS
NOW BANKING HOUSES
Mid-Continent Banker Tells
What Happened in One City
n That Went Dry
REAL ESTATE PROBLEM
Nothing to 1t Says the Banker
Who Says Bank Isn't Bet
\ ter for City Than Bar

The Mid-Continent Banker, a
bankers magazine published in St.
Louis, Mo-, for April tells what hap
pened to number OF saloons in New
Orleans when the Eighteenth Amend
ment became operative. The article
reads in part:
"One thing that was not stipulated
i'll the Prohibition Amendment was
what disposition should be made of
saloons bars, cafes, ct cetera. This
apparently was left TO local option.
"But down in New Orleans the
Hibcrnia Bank and Trust Company
has made four decisions on this ques-
ton, namely, four branch houses or
banking institutions which formerly
were wet goods retail stores. And so
in the year one A. 7. (meaning the
first year after Prolbition) these
four thirst emporiums have been
converted into substantial up-to- date
banking Offices Thus the
Hibernia Bank is answering in a very
practical and constructive manner the
age-old question which prevailed 3.
p. before Prohibtion)--what will
become OF the real estate now oc-
cupied by saloons if Prohibition sue
ceeds?
Is we'll appointed banking house
preferable to a saloon?
The Hibernia Bank says yes.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
POLISH NEWSPAPER USES VETS ATTACK
ON AMENDMENT IN OPPOSING DRY POLAND
Refers Opposition of Rhode Island and Kentucky and Says This
Discomfort is legitimate Argues for socaled Lighter AL
coholic Beverages Condemns Strong Liquor"

to protest They even pretend that
this arbitrary decision is nothing but
political conspiracy. The states of
Rhode Island, Kentucky and Massa-
chusetts have placed complaints be-
fore the Supreme Court.
Their discomfort is very legitimate.
What would our Polish friends say if
such decision had been made by
their government?
alcohol is poison taken strong,
but it is delectable poison if not
abused. 1t is all question of de-
gree"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
ALL INDIA TEMPERANCE
COUNCIL IN CONFERENCE

All-India Temperance Council met
in 10th annual Conference at Amrit-
sar, India. Two delegates were pres
ent at the conference from the Ma
tional w. c. T. U.-President Mrs
+. B. Price and National Organizer
Mary J. Campbell. Attendance was
excellent. The hall in which the con-
ference held its sessions was packed
and hundreds were turned away.
Pundit Modan NOLAN Mallaviya,
member of the Imperial Legislative
Council, was elected president and adj
dressed the conference. This All-In-
dia Temperance Council embraces all
the subsidiary temperance organiza-
tons of India.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
BUTLER FkvORS wine AND BEER
Columbia President Assays Scylla-
and Charybdis Stunt in Stormy
Seas Of American Politics.

DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler, can
didate for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination, has made public his
personal platform" The following
is his attitude on the question of ell
forcement of the Prohibition law:
Resist every attempt to bring
Back the saloon whose abolition
as public nuisance and source
of immortality has given profound
public satisfaction. Displace the
Solstead act by a measure writ
ten without fanaticism for the en-
forcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment on the basis of fact,
common sense, justice and regard
for established principles of
American civil liberty.
There are beers and light wines
that form part of the staple diet
of civilized people everywhere,
that are not more Intoxicating
than molasses and not half so
harmful as ice water. To pro-
ilibit the domestic use of those
is unreasonable.
The good doctor must admit that
to legalize the manufacture and sale
of beer would restore the brewer to
his former political power. Of course
he knows the brewers record, how
they supplied the German-American
Alliance with Funds, which alliance
was proved to be the sworn enemy of
the United States government, and
how they corrupted elections. He
knows too that they owned the over
whelming majority of the saloons of
this country. 1t is gratifying to
know that he believes the abolition
of these saloons. which he says were
a nuisance and source of immortality,
has given profound public satisfac-
ton; but it is discouraging to think
that he sponsors plan that would
restore the owners and promoters of
these public nuisances to power.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
JUST AN AGGRAVATION
is NEW YORK'S BEER LAW

Here is the way the Brooklyn
(New York; Standard Union look!
upon the beer bill recently passed b,
the New York Legislature:
The Legislature passed a 275
beer bill. If the Governor signs
it the state excise department
will grant licenses for its sale.
But there will be no beer. A
thirsty man may look at the Ii
ccnsc which will afford him about
AS much satisfaction as a hungry
man derives from looking at fried
eggs and bacon and boiled ham
and chocolate cake, etc, display
ed in the advertising cards i'll
street cars.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
GOVERNOR EDWARDS NOW
AN AVOWED CANDIDATE

Governor Edwards OF New Jersey
OIL May 6 became an avowed active
candidate for the Democratic nomi-
hation for President. His manager
explains that he is running on his
record as Governor and his record
as business man. His fight for the
reinstatement of the liquor traffic in
this country is not mentioned.
No use, Mr.. Edwards. It's too
late to cover your tracks now. You
would never have been heard of as a
presidential candidate except for your
active opposition TO the Eighteenth
Amendment and that opposition dis
qualities you,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
MISSOURI Cities SOLDERING UP
Kansas City and St. Louis Experience
Decrease in Arrests for Drunken
ness Past Year

Reports from Missouri's two large
cities, St. Louis and Kansas City,
show that Prohibition has effected 4
marked decrease i'll arrests for drunk
enness and cases directly attributed
to drunkenness.
The number of cases OF alcoholism
treated at the St. Louis city dispcn-
sary during the year ending March
81 was 1000, a decrease of 897 from
the previous year, according to the
annual report OF Dr. Walter A. Rohl-
mug, chef dlspcnsary physicians, to
hospital Commissioner Shut Dur
ing the year ending March 81, 1918,
the last year Commissioner Shut has
statistics for comparison, there were
1857 cases OF alcoholism. Last year
there were 81 cases of delirium ire
mems. In l9l7-l8 there were 70.
Nine months of Prohibition has
served to curb brawls and guthrie AXIS
in Kansas City, according to the fig
ures compiled for the police depart
ment for the fiscal year ending on
April 3. The report was made public
by the police department on May 9.
The reports for the last fiscal year
show that 1880 persons were ar
rested for being drunk. The num-
Der is 5000 less than the figure re-
ported for 1918.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
LEGISLATURE
ASKS FOR DRY VOTE

The Legislature OF Ontario, Can
ada, by vote of SO to Il, has decided
to ask the Dominion government 10
take vote i'll that province on the
following proposition: THAT the inn
portation and the bringing-in of in
toxicating liquors into such province
may be forbidden"
While Ontario has prohibition OF
the manufacture and sale OF ntoxicat-
ing liquors, the Dominion govern
ments repeal OF war restrictions left
it exposed TO intcr-provincial ship
ments OF liquors.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21

The liquor interests attack on the
Eighteenth Amendment is bearing
fruit in Europe. To this extent,
viewed from their side of the ques-
ton, their attack has not been in
vain. The following is an excerpt
from Polish journal OF Warsaw:
New Law in America on Alcohol
"The law prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale of alcoholic drinks is
meeting in America with very marked
opposition, especially in the eastern
states. These wish to ally themselves
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
ENGLISH STUDENTS ARE
GETTING INTO DRY FIGHT

Some of the English college stu
dents are bestirring themselves. Not
long ago large attended meeting OF
the Birmingham University Political
Union and Debating Society passed
by a large majority the following
resolutions:
That, economically and NOR
ally, the prohibition of the com
mon sale OF alcoholic liquors and
beverages in this country is most
desirable. The means by which
this reform must be obtained will
be by an Act of Parliament grant
ing local option in given areas on
the lines OF the Scottish Temper
ance Act of 1913, which comes
into force next June.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
CHICAGO BREWERS IN
FEDERAL OFFICERS NET

Four large brewing companies of
Chicago are under investigation, says
the Chicago News of May 4, fol-
towing the report that they had been
manufacturing and selling seven and
nine per cent beer. The complaints
against the brewers were lodged with
Major A. V. Dalrymple, federal Pro-
hibition enforcement officer of the
Chicago district, and Captain How
ard, State Prohibition Administrator,
by other brewers who say they are
being put out of business by law
evaders whose product seems to be
the most popular.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
DRYS OF GERMANY ARE
POLITICALLY ACTIVE
Universal Suffrage Adds Recruits
to Force Demanding Anti
Alcohol Legislation
WOULD BAN, BRANDY
Reichstag Committee Objects to
Increase in Brewing Quota;
Food Shortage Cause

ut hdlHOlloCHE hlCuZDuHulliS
Gratz, Austria, forwards American Is
sue an article signed by F. Goesch
Hamburg, March II, 1920, dealing
with the anti-alcohol movement i'll
Germany. The following are excerpts
from that article:
THE number of persons in the
anti-alcohol organizations in Germany
has unfortunately experienced a great
decline on account OF the influences
of the war At present the number
or organized abstainers would prob
ably not amount TO more than $780,
600. The decline i'll this total NUM-
Der is not caused by the discontinue
ance OF organizations but is a part of
a general decline i'll membership of
all organizations
The weakening i'll numbers OF the
anti-alcohol movement in Germany
need cause no anxiety for the future
In the summer of 1918 a
few resolute men in the movement
felt called to oppose further decline
by hrmer union and by revival
of the work of the General German
Control Association for fighting alco-
hol
The Abstinence Convention held
in Berlin in the autumn of 1918 show
ed far greater feeling of congenial-
ity than had previously been the case.
Shortly after this close reunion had
been brought about the political rev
olution in 1918 brought to all persons
twenty years old, including women,
the unlimited political suffrage giving
the opponents of alcohol an oppor-
tunity of pushing their political
wishes more than ever into the fore
ground, So the. Genera. Control AS
ISOLATION has launched a campaign
for local option and is at present pre-
pairing a popular demand (petition)
through which in the new Imperial
Constitution the complete Prohibition
of brandy will be demanded
Further evidence that the anti
alcohol sentiment is growing is seen
in the fact that the inter-party COM
mittee in the Reichstag OF the Nation
al Assembly has on several occasions
worked in the interest OF the temper
ance movement. This committee at
the end of December 1919 questioned
the government about the importation
of alcohol from foreign lands, and
at the beginning of February it rails
ed objection to the decree of the
Reichstag that the quota for brewing
should be increased and it demand
cd that the decree be not put into
effect OH account of the lack OF food
supplies.
The article concludes:
"In spite Of all the difficulties which
oppose any work of civilization in
Germany at the present time, in spite
of the economic need and the uncer-
tainty OF the future of our race, we
opponents of alcohol will continue
our work theoretically and with our
minds fixed upon our goal i'll the hope
of preventing as much as possible the
return of the people TO their previous
state of alcoholism, and to the con-
tributing an esseptial part to the re-
construction of our national life"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
NEW YORK INTRODUCES
NOVEL TRICK SALOON

Revenue agents of Brooklyn dis
covered trick" saloon. A spring
board was arranged under the bar on
which liquors poured in glasses ready
for serving were placed. The bar
tender on the approach of officers
could spring the trap by pulling a
string and the drinks would be sent
crashing to the floor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21

A result of Prohibition was record
ed at the county jail, Louisville, KY,
when the force of guards was cut
from Is to IA by Tailor John H. Barr
who was compelled to retrench be-
cause the "booze shortage" has made
a prisoner shortage and brought re-
duced Jail revenues.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
WHISKY THIEVES COMPEL
OWNER TO ASSIST THEM

Five unmaskcd robbers on May 10
held up the storerooms OF former
Kansas City saloonkecpcr and drove
away with two truckloads of whisky
valued at $4,000 They forced the
to run an elevator to help
them take the goods from the third
floor.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
ALLIANCE ADOPTS
NEW CONSTITUTION

The New South Wales {Australia)
Alliance has adopted new Constitu-
ton in which it is declared that its
purpose, among other things, is to
advocate local and state Prohibition
by bare majority by the direct vote
of all the people"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21

Canadian Alliance workers under
the auspices of the World League
Against Alcoholism are already in
Scotland assisting in the local option
campaign beginning June |.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21

A Hagerstown Nd, dispatch says
that for the first time in many years
the Rockville Jail without a single
prisoner, a condition entirely due to,
Prohibition. In the old wet days the
Jail usually contained from ten to
twenty prisoners.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
VETS MARK SPROUL FOR
SLAUGHTER IN CAMPAIGN

Pennsylvania liquor interests are
sending out specimtp sample ballots
with instructions to knife Governor
Sproul and AttorneyGeneral Schaef-
fer delegatcs-at-large to the Chicago
convention
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21
RULES MAN MAY ACT AS
own COMMON CARRIER
Toronto Court Gives Far Reach
ing Decision Which May
Boost Rum Trade
FOR HOME CONSUMPTION
Only Necessary to Prove Liquor
Is for Home Consumption;
Montreal the Mecca

Justice Middletown of Toronto rem
dered decision on April 10 which
is likely to exercise a far-reaching
effect upon the rum running industry
between Montreal and Windsor.
The Justice ruled that man may
act as his own common carrier and
therefore may lawfully be in posses
sion of liquor about his person or
in his grip ii he is taking it to his home
The decision was made in the case OF
John Kozak, foreigner residing in
Toronto, who brought two suitcases
of liquor from Montreal to Windsor
ostensibly for his own use. Kozak
was arrested for violation OF the tenn
perance act, his liquor conhscated,
and he was fined $500. The higher
court now rules that the fine shall be
refunded and the liquor returned to
him. The st. Johns Standard of
April 20 in commenting upon the rul-
ing says:
III the ruling be taken as a pre-
cedent, and local experts say it
will, there appears to be nothing
to prevent any number OF indi-
siduals from driving their auto
mobiles to Montreal, loading
them to the. guards with fruit
OF the vine" and then driving
back to Windsor They will be
immune from police interference
on the route and provided they
take the cars to their homes the
police at present can discern no
loopholc by which they have au-
thority to interfere The only
chance the whisky trafficker now
takes is that he might be tempt
ed to divert his load to some
place other than his own domi-
Gle, in which event he would be
amenable to the full force of the
law
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-05-21

Ex-Premier Clemenceaus amazing
youthfuness and vitality is credited
to his simple diet and abstinence from
wine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-23
Dry Nominee
Offers Inducement
to Cox and Harding

aShlnSton. -. G.. Sept. 22-Aaron
s. Watkins, prohibition Presidential
nominee, declared in an address to-
day before the fifteenth international
congress against alcoholism that he
would withdraw from the Presiden-
tial race if. a pledge of support for
the dry program could be obtained
from any one of the other candi-
dates.
Il ask only two things of the other
two candidates" Mr.. Watkins said.
whenever one of them pledges him
self to enforce the eighteenth amend
ment and enforce the Nolstead act. if
elected. and to use all of his power
and influence to retain them us a
part of the nations law, ] will agree
to ask our national committee to re-
lease me from the ticket
Mr.. Watkins made his statement
as a reply to limitations by several
other speakers that the presence of
the prohibition ticket in the field
might jeopardizc the chances of
known" dry advocates and might
also result in overturning the dry
ma jority in congress.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-23
Terror Stricken
Balbriggan Folks
Flee Battered Town

Balbrlggan. Ire. Sept 22-(By The
Associated ess)-Nearly 1000 per-
sons. about half the population of
this partly devastated town. crept
back to their homes today after
having spent a second night OF tor
ror in hay fields, Once during the
middle of the night an alarm was
raised which caused a STAMPEDE Of
the people to remoter fields where
tthey took refuge under hodges and
hay cocks. or whatever shelter they
could find.
Women and old men shivered in
the cold until dawn. when search
ing, party found things quit in Bal
briggan and all of them gradually
returned to their homes
The correspondent witnessed the
last of the population coming home
women with infants in their arms,
men carrying blankets and baskets
of food and children trying to rub
the sleep from their eyes Only n
handful of the residents Of Bal
briggan had sufficient temerity to
pass the night in their homes.
Many of the townspcople had
scattered among friends in neigh
boring villages. while others had
gone to farms about Dublin. more
than 90 miles distant.