The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-02
Former Liquor Dealers Are Raise Big Fund For Attack
Against Prohibition Laws
PURPOSE is TO NAME wet CANDIDATES
. AT PRIMARY ELECTIONS ON APRIL 8
Veterans Of Liberty Organized Illinois to Represent Former Liquor
Dealers of the State
ALL WET BODIES WILL COOPERATE IN THE PRIMARY FIGHT

and search and seizure laws. There
fore our immediate work lies at the
coming spring primary elections" The
work of the Veterans of Liberty was
referred to at the convention of the
Retail Malt Beverage Dealers by the
state secretary, NJ. ]. Mccarthy.
Veterans Represent Liquor Trade
In his annual report, Mr.. Mccarthy
referred to various wet organizations,
and then made the following state
ment relative to the Veterans of Lib
erty. "ln order not to lose the inhu-
ence and united strength of those who
are and we're connected with our trade
the veterans of liberty was organized,
January, 1921, duly chartered by the
state of Illinois and registered at
Washington, D. C., the manager Of
which is Cur esteemed national secrc-
tary, who for thirty-fve years has been
one OF the best workers in the cause
| know from personal observation that
this organization has been doing some
excellent work in stirring up the peo-
pie of Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri
and other states and are circulating
petitions, letters and roll calls CT the
members of the legislature and con-
gressmen on the wet and dry question
and Mr.. Halle and his veterans of lib
erty are deserving of all praise in this
work and entitled to our hearty sup
port
Mr.. r. J. Halle, secretary of the vet
erans OF liberty,'is editor of the Cham
pion of Fair Play, now in its hfty-ffth
year, which has always been the Off
cial organ of the liquor dealers. While
the Veterans of Liberty represents
the organized liquor dealers in their
public activities. this organization has
been active from the beginning in Sc
curing additional members from out
side OF the liquor trade. The platform
OF the Veterans of Liberty as published
on its membership cards and applica-
tions for membership, reads as follows:
Platform of Wet Group
The objects of the organization as
provided by its charter are as follows:
First ITO preserve the cardinal
principles of the Constitution of the
United States (Which was conceived
in liberty) against anti-liberty amend
ments of whatsoever kind or nature"
Second "To use every legal means
to have repealed the one anti-liberty
addition to the Constitution of, the
United States known as the Eighteenth
or Prohibition Amendment"
Third. ITO restore to the people of
the United States their rights and lib
critics by amending the Volstead en-
forcement law permitting the manu-
facture and sale of beer and light
Wines"
Fourth. ITO preserve to the people
their religious liberties as contained in
the Bill of Rights by resisting any pro-
posed amendments that would prevent
the people from observing the Sabbath
Day in such manner as their religious
instincts may dictate"
The Veterans of Liberty together
with the Association Opposed to Ma
.:oo,I Drob;h;t;a, fool, +ba faa J;,er
part in the circulation of the beer and
wine referendum petitions. 1t was
claimed by these organizations that the
petition filed by them with the secre-
tary of state, contained the names of
FIVE hundred thousand voters. One of
the continuous activities of the Veter-
ans of Liberty is the circulation of pc
tions to Congress for modification of
the Volstead act. The following is a
copy of one of these petitions:
Ask Congress for Beer
ITO the 6Sth Congress of the United
States of America:
"The undersigned, citizens of the
United States, believing that good gov
ernment and true temperance are Sc
riously imperiled by the present con-
ditions existing throughout the United
States under the Volstead prohibition
enforcement act, respectfully petition
your honorable body to carefully study
the facts, and to so amend said act that
we may see an end to the existing dis
respect for law, promiscuous crime,
corruption of public servants and other
evils that now exist.
I'VE believe that this can be best ac-
complished by modifying the Volstead
act so as to permit the legal manufac-
ture, distribution and consumption OF
beer of moderate alcoholic strength, to