See the American Brewers Congress -- under various names, such as National
Congress of Brewers -- from the 1870s on, as well as its funding of other
organizations, especially anti-woman suffrage organizations.   That
organized undermining of other organizations later was investigated by
Congress, so those records are archived.

And papers of its and other Germans' organizations' lobbyists may be
available -- for example, the papers of Robert Wild in Wisconsin, where the
Brewers Congress began in reaction to the Women's Temperance Crusades and
subsequent WCTU.   Some of his papers are archived at my campus and others
elsewhere.  (Fyi, my research also found Crusades began in Wisconsin and
were publicized nationwide many months before Crusades in the East, so it
may be useful to look for the original Milwaukee brewers' actions before the
more usually accepted date of the start of the Crusades.)

Genevieve G. McBride
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee



On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:42 PM, John, Galliher <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues;
>
> I'm searching around for ideas and citations on the issue of organized
> opposition to the U.S. Prohibition of alcohol.  Joe Gusfield could think
> of
> nothing off the top of his head and Harry Levine recommended that I
> contact
> this list serve.
>
> Since the largely protestant WCTU pushed hard against the culture of Jews
> and Roman Catholics I'm wondering if they pushed back.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John Galliher
>