The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1920-07-16
President of Cook County Vets Says Illinois Enforcement
Law Must Be Wiped Out
VOLSTEAD DEFEAT CALLED FIRST WET VICTORY
OTHER DRYS ARE SLATED ITO BITE The DUST
New York and New Jersey Liquor Associations Announce Nationwide
Wet Campaign
TO DEFEAT BEER AND WINE ALL DRYS MUST VOTE SEPTEl

1V DLl Lnt ULLh hi1D UiSL HhA
The vets are planning to make II
lliuuor traffic. The desperate activitit
idrys who incorrectly believe that til
lby the Supreme Court have put the
danger.
The plans and purposes of the v
frecent actions but by official expressi
ttheir organizations.
| The June 20 number of the Cham
lpion of Fair Play contains a report
Eof the address by Fred Rohde, presi-
ldent of the Cook County Liquor
Dealers Association, at its 4lst annual
lconvention on June oath. The part
lof President Rohde's address relative
to the future plans of his organization
lin Illinois reads as follows:
Vets Want Liberal Congress
but, gentlemen, we may have a
president who would make this coun-
TRY as wet as the Atlantic Ocean,
tbut not to have liberal Congress it
will avail us nothing; therefore, we
must continue to work and labor with
our friends in every congressional
district in the country, and ! am OF
an opinion that public sentiment is
growing so rapidly against the Pro-
hbition Amendment that | feel con-
fident that in due time the people of
this country will demand their rights,
which they can secure only through
the selection of liberal Congressman.
Volstead Defeat Pleases Vets
Il anl Happy 70 advise you that on
Tuesday last the first gun was fired
out in the 9Th District of Minnesota,
, where Congressman Volstead was de-
feated for denomination after having
represented his district for the past
twenty years. Thus will die all trail
tors to the cause of liberty.
Again must we remember that even
with a wet President and a wet Con-
gress, that would amend the Vol
stead Act to give light wines and
beer to the people, yet we in Illi-
nois have, thanks to Governor Low
den, a Legislature that betrayed the
people, Search and Seizure law that
must be wiped out before we can be
benefited by national legislation"
The resolutions passed by the Cook
tCounty Liquor Dealers Association
tat its meeting on June "a, 1920, con-
stained the following program:
Will Work for Wet Congress
Let it therefore be
Resolved, That we exert every in
Huence within our power to elect to
lCongress men who are pledged to
lso modify the stringency of the Vol
Fstead law as to ensure to the people
|of our country quality of beer that
Twill be healthful and potable and wine
sufficiently fortified to be fit for the
invalid and the table.
Whereas, The United States Su-
lpreme Court has upheld the legality
Iof the Eighteenth Amendment to the
lConstitution of the United States
(Which robs the citizens of the country
tof their personal liberty and drives
the liquor dealers out of business in
Ian unjust and unfair manner, without
one cent of compensation; and
Whereas, The question of National
prohibition is now thrown into poll
tics as a vital issue in the coming
presidential, congressional and state
campaign; and
Whereas, 1t is manifest that vast
nnajority of the voting public of the
nation is strenuously opposed to Pro-
thibition and prepared to elect a Con-
lgress which will modify the present
tVo1stead enforcement act, be it
Resolved, That we the members
of the District of Cook County Liq-
kuor Dealers Protective League of
Illinois, feel it our bounden duty and
the duty of all members of the said
organization. to exert every effort to
bring about the election of a Presi-
dent and members of Congress and
state Legislature who will so amend
the Volstead Act as to remove its
tyrannical restrictions so far as posi-
bic until such time as the constitu-