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Show w v -y y g - 1 1 iSEER MAKERS f EH I ! FIGHT UPON DRT 1 UW AT CMFEnEIKEi President to Confab Says Peo-j Peo-j pie are Determined to Protect Pro-tect Their Liberties PROHIBITION CALLED J UNPOPULAR IN U. S. (Brewer Says Short Dry Era Has Awakened Americans to Need of Action ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Feb. 25. . Brewers of the United States will use I "every legal and constitutional mean? !" to keep that liberty and that property . I that is guaranteed to us by iho constitution," con-stitution," Christian W. Feigcnspan ir- Iclared here today at me umieu Mates Iirevers' conference, of which he f.s prqsidehL w.v. - ; 1 . J 'lijOunlmgUienon-rajlifn jfiajO;'1,-those jfiajO;'1,-those which have hot voted lor state prohibition and those which have voted vot-ed against federal or state constitu floua! prohibition in recent years," he said, "we have 25 or more than a ma-Jo'it ma-Jo'it of the whole number. There are 21 referendum states, 15 of which are not included hi the foregoing Other States Considered. In these slates the people have reserved re-served t,o themselves 'the power to approve or reject at the polls any act of the legislature.' They must there fore be counted as states which have not ratified. Adding these states to he 25 mentioned heretofore, we have a total of 40 in which the people are i either opposed to federal prohibition' or have been denied their undoubted rlghl to pass Upon it No wonder the proponents of this system fought tooth and nail against letting the people vote. Prohibition Blessing. 1 "The present short period of prohibition prohi-bition has ben a blessing. in disguise. It has aroused the American people to the necessity of being keenly on th?ir guard to preserve their liber ties. "It is part of tho prohibition propaganda propa-ganda today to pretend that the American Ameri-can people, through their own action, have brought about the existing sit uation. Never was there, a greater; falsehood. The American people havcj nerer acted upon national prohibition.) They have never been permitted to do ! so. Only one state Ohio voted upon thl'j tremendous issue and there tho verdict was against it." DISTILLERS GET ACTION. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Feb. 25. The ' Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse company yesterday laid before Judge' Walier Evans a petition alleging the eighteenth amendment to the consti , union was unconstitutional, had the 'petition dismissed and an appeal cer-, Itified to the supreme court of tho j United States, all within fifteen rain-j (Utes-. j The- main contention of tho suit is j by the constitution refers to the en tire membership of the senate and the house or to the membership who were actually present when the vote was tak?n on the question of submitting the eighteenth amendment to the I slates. |