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Editorial celebrating the 'glorious fourth' in the context of prohibition laws and the un-fourth-like attack on the civil liberties of German Americans.

Report on beer riots in Johnson County in response to state prohibition laws.

Article bemoaning potential prohibition as of a piece with longer-lineaged nativist attacks on the civil rights of German Americans.

German-language newspaper includes English-language editorial denouncing prohibition as historic attack on liberty and return to barbarism.

Article on potential prohibition law from perspective of saloonkeepers.

Article commenting on proposed 'draconian' prohibition law.

Article borrowed from Illinois Staatszeitung commenting upon proposed prohibition in Iowa.

Article on Iowa Brewer's Convention occuring in midst of prohibition legislation. The members therefore pledge to fight the convention in courts and raise funds.

Editorial from German-language paper concerning temperance.

Why the President of the National Brewers Association won't vote for Blaine Hermann B. Scharmann, President of the National Brewers Association and a very influential Republican of the 21st Ward in Brooklyn, has as of now wholeheartedly declared his…