Bernard Gettelman

Bernard Gettelman was the State Senator of the City of Milwaukee in 1925. He is most notably known for vociferously defending home brewing as legal, and daring Prohibition agents to arrest him. "Let them come in. Let them taste some of my wine, they can't prosecute me and they won't try. ...The joke is on the Anti-Saloon League.", he once stated to agents. "It must be terrible wine," a league official replied. "They tell me he makes it out of raisins and yeast and potatoes. I can't imagine how he can drink it. Such courage should be applied to legitimate ends."