• Tags: Temperance and Prohibition

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…

Anecdotal reports on the increase in the demand for whiskey, activities of possible informants at pharmacies, and a beer-free circus.

Editorial from German-language paper concerning temperance.

Article on potential prohibition law from perspective of saloonkeepers.

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

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

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

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

Largely-neutral report of Francis Murphy's speech to saloon keepers in context of his prohibitionism.
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