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Dry League Fights to Save Official Twice Held Guilty 3Vlrs. Mabel Willebrandt Reveals Inside Story.of Battle to Defeat Justice in Notorious Missouri Brewery Case. Thii is b. tenth •! the series an “T he Truth About Prohibition.” he Mr-. Mabel Walker Willebrandt. former assistant attorney general of the lotted States. in rharge of prohibition. BY MABEI. WALKER WILLEBRANDT " 'Cop- right, 1920. bv Current News Features. All rights for publication reset.ed throughout the world.. is no more interesting or unusual chapter in m.v experience 1 as a prosecutor under the prohibition law than that which curiously enough involved a simultaneous battle with a St. Louis brewery and the Anti-Saloon League of Missouri. ...... I have been accused of being under the domination of tnc AntiSaloon League. Such accusations, however, are not unusual with respect to any person engaged in work in any way connected with prohibition. But familiarity with the case of the United States vs. Hebcr Nations absolves me from the charge of league domination. In the Nations case we not only had a legal battle with lawyers, but I met the organized opposition of the Anti-Saloon League in every step of the investigation 611,1 I"bear for the Christian men and women who have worked with passionate zeal for the prohibition cause the most sincere respect. I never however, have seen a more flagrant example of misuse of influence and power than the Missouri Anti-Saloon League exhibited in the Nations trial. . _ The Nations family long had been active m the dry cause. Hcber Nations, the defendant, was state labor commissioner of Missouri. His brother Gus was chief of federal prohibition officers stationed in St. Lotus.

Both had as a mutual friend, Charles Prather, state beverage inspector. The government indictment charged, in substance, that Hebei Nations conspired with others and officials of the Griesedieck Brewery Company to violate the prohibition act through releases of high-powered beer. It was charged that Heber Nations’ part in the conspiracy was to keep the brewery advised, through his brother Gus. then chief prohibition officer in St. Louis, when it would be safe to run out the forbidden brew.’. Heber Nations Fichls. All defendants pleaded guilty to the indictment except Heber Nations Through his extensive affiliation'. political and otherwise. Nations was given the “moral support' 1 of thousands of people, who honestly believed lie was the victim of persecution. However, he twice was convicted by juries. The verdict war, set aside by I lie circuit, court, of appeals because of improper statement, by the United States attorney in the presence of the jury. The rase awaits retrial. When the ease first arose. Nations' family, through press and pulpit. roused Hie organized drys with a frenzy of protest. In spite of it, I insisted that, the rase, resting upon amply corroborated testimony of official misconduct, and bribery, should be handled just flic same, even though one of the defendants were an Anti-Saloon league official.

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as if the defendants were knowrn bootleggers. Anti-Saloon league demands piled up on my desk to order a dismissal. Instead. I asked that the case be set. for trial. The situation grew so hot in St. Louis, that the local office railed for help. I went out for the trial. A jury panel was called. Fought by League. The Anti-Saloon league officials spoke, wrote, pleaded, in an effort to stop the trial, and distributed literally thousands of the following documents printed on the official stationery of the Anti-Saloon league ot Missouri, May 16. 1925: Dear Friend: The purpose of this communication is to appeal to all law-abiding citizens to join in an effort to secure fair play and justice for those who have been the object of attack in their efforts to enforce the law’. Hcber Nations has led 100 raids on moonshine plants and illicit dives. Heber Nations’ Jefferson City newspaper has been a fearless champion and effective medium for the agencies of law enforcement. Hcber Nations procured the information with which his brother, Gus o. Nations, caught the Griesedieck brewery making beer. In revenge, Heber Nations has been indicted, charged w'ith operating that brewery. Every alleged violation of the national prohibition laws is subject to investigation and prosecution under the laws of the state of Missouri. Heoer Nations is to be taken

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away from Jefferson City and haled up before a federal court, which is to be held in wet St. Louis on Monday, May 25. You i have read w’hat the dry editors and law enforcement advocates of i the state have said about it. You ' know' the story. The hour has come to strike—for YOU to strike. A special prosecutor is to represent the department of justice in prosecuting Nations for operating the Griesedieck brewery, notwithstanding the admitted fact that Heber Nations and his brother, Gus Nations, were solely responsible for raiding the Griesedieck brewery at the time it w y as caught making beer, and notwithstanding the fact that local representatives of the department of justice turned loose all men caught at the Griesedieck brewery on two separate trials. Write to President Coolidgc today, demanding an investigation of the prosecution against Nations and protesting against the trial of Nations, a well-known editor. dry leader, and law’ enforcement advocate in wet St. Louis, on the testimony of interested bootleggers and brewers, seeking immunity, w’hom Nations has raided. No favoritism is desired. All that advocates of law enforcement want is to prevent unjust and prejudiced action taken in the name of law’ enforcement by bootleggers and chronic lawbreakers under the guise of witnesses for the government and patriotic aids of the department of justice. If bootleggers are framing to railroad dry leaders under guise of prosecution, the facts should : be known before it is too late. Write it today! Mail it today! The time is short! Please —please—w’on't you please phone five of your friends today and urge them t.o do likewise? Sincerely yours, A. H. POST. Some of these fell into the hands jof prospective jurors. In addition to that appeal, the league drew’ up a mimeographed brief entitled | “Statement, of Facts Concerning Nations Case and Law’ Enforcement, by A. H. Post. Superintendent, 1 Missouri Anti-Saloon League.” Obstruction of Justice. | Tt seems unbelievable-+liat an organization pledged to secure and obey law would resort to tactics to prevent one of its members from facing trial and thus testing in i orderly and constitutional way the truth of the charges against him. It was obstruction of justice. I bordering closely on contempt of < court, and I condemn it as quickly and resist it as vigorously as when bootleggers’ friends attempt the j same interference with trials by dif—j ferent means. Recently w r e have witnessed much attack on the Anti-Saloon league as an invisible government and politi- ; cal oppressor. In fairness, I must ' say, that, the league’s resort to tac- . tics such as in the Nations case is conspicuous by its rarity. Wayne Wheeler was an able law- ■ ycr. He w r as a determined, politically astute man. I always believe j he guided the league into dangerous 1 shoals by too much political activity. | Early in my tenure he offered to ! help me if I w’anted to secure appointments and if for the "good of the cause” I would let him know of matters officially under consideration here. The latter, of course, I never could do—consequently my relations w’ith the Washington office of the AntiSaloon league remained distant, but always were cordial. W. C. T. U. is Lauded. The real undying spirit w’hich I do sense among the league's membership as a beneficent force in civic life is represented by the nonpolitical, quieter approach to the liquor problem by such men as Dr. Cherrington. The league w’ill hold its place just in proportion as it relinquishes any disposition to name appointees, and develops a disposition to continual cvic education on temperance and law’ observance. That is the reason for the con-

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firmed Influence of the Women's Christian Temperance nion. Its consecration is sincere, unwavering, and utterly unselfish. You seldom find its members voting for a carousing public official solely because he voted for a dry law. In my judgment, the Anti-Saloon league's political activity is one of several contributory causes to a very repulsive modern phase of public life. I refer to the political hypocrisy of drinking “drys.” The league, I believe, would be stronger today had it been more reluctant to indorse a man who would compromise his courage and honest convictions just to vote dry while dealing blows in the back to the eighteenth amendment. Some Drys Backslide. I look forward to the time when the powerful devotion to the cause of prohibition represented in the organization known as the AntiSaloon league will become again a virile civic force to teach temperance and obedience to law. This will, of course, indirectly affect political results, but the approach will j be educative and informative rather , than political. After the supreme effort put forth by consecrated “drys,” with the Anti-Saloon league largely acting as shock troops, to secure the eighteenth amendment, these con- j secrated “drys” often have coo developed “Rocking-chairitis.” They have leaned back in complacent enjoyment of the great victory the eighteenth amendment represents to them. The eighteenth amendment is not nearly so much a victory as it is a challenge. One reason for the j slough of despond many serious- j minded citizens find themselves in over the eighteenth amendmentcitizens, who at first were enthusiastic about it—is because there has been a cessation of quiet, steady, forceful education on the value of temperance, community by community, throughout the country, which the dry-thinking, dry-living and dry-voting people maintained before the eighteenth amendment was secured They never should have stopped , it for* a moment. The lull in their efforts along this line in the last five years, particularly, has given a great advantage l to those conducting organized opposition to prohibition The opportunity before the AntiSaloon league and its challenge is to get out of rocking-chairs, and roll up their sleeves, state by state, county by county, and community by community, and revive interest in the desirability and economic advantage of abstinence, and the civic obligation of law observance. (In thp next installment Mrs. Willebrandt tells of Washington’s Wet Drys.)

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City Stations WFBM im<U !Indianapolis Power and Light Company! —Thursday—r m. 4:ls—Jim and Walt 4:3o—Duke Ellington's band CBSp 3:oo—United Symphony orchestra tCBS). s:3o—Twilight 'musicale. B:oo—Daguerrotvpes 'CBS'. B:3o—United States Marine band ‘CBS'. 7 oo—True Detective Mysteries (CBS' 7:3o—Buffalo Cirtc Symphony orchestra (CBS'. ft.PO to 10 00—Silent by order federal radio commission. 10:00—Slumber hour. 10:30—I.ongines time by Julius C Walk X- Son: weather. 10:31—The Columnist. IVKRF (itofli • Hoosier Athletic Club* —Thursday—r m s:oo—Late news bulletins and -ports. 6:30 -Dinner concert 7:oo—Studio program. 8:00 -WKBK trio. B:3o—Broad Ripplr boxing bouts. 10:0IV Roller skating marathon