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+Title: Government By The Brewers?
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+Author: Adolph Keitel
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, GOVERNMENT BY THE BREWERS? ***
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+GOVERNMENT BY THE BREWERS?
+
+By ADOLPH KEITEL
+
+For thirty years intimately associated with the brewing industry
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+Chapter
+
+        Preface
+
+        Ballot Box (Illustration.)
+
+ I.     My thirty years' intimate association with the brewers
+
+ II.    Prohibition banishes crime
+
+ III.   What is beer?
+
+ IV.    Non-alcoholic beer is a mysterious compound of drugs
+
+ V.     Beer is a habit forming drug
+
+ VI.    Why beer is not a fit drink for the home
+
+ VII.   Beer is not a temperance drink
+
+ VIII.  The decreased alcoholic content of beer will increase drunkenness
+
+ IX.    Brewers' grains are considered dangerous for cows milk
+
+ X.     Brewers assault distillers to hide their own crimes
+
+ XI.    Abolition of crime and vice would decrease the sale of beer
+
+ XII.   Crime is planned in saloons
+
+ XIII.  The beer traffic does not recognize the sanctity of the home
+
+ XIV.   A vice complaint
+
+        An every-day vice scene (Illustration)
+
+ XV.    Laws are openly violated
+
+ XVI.   Another vice backed by brewers
+
+        Cabarets and tango dance resorts
+
+        How a New York brewer advertises his cabaret resort
+
+ XVII.  Millions expended in corrupting elections
+
+        United States Brewers' Association exposed
+
+ XVIII. How Chicago Brewers have tried to prevent a "dry" vote
+
+ XIX.   Brewers fear woman suffrage
+
+ XX.    People resent government by the brewers
+
+
+
+
+
+PREFACE.
+
+When it was found impossible to suppress my writings by attempts
+to bribe me, men were hired to poison me.  After the failure of
+this plot to dispose of me, I was subjected to almost unbelievable
+insults, persecution, humiliation and injustice in the courts.
+
+A friendly federal judge was besought to stop me by an injunction.
+The United States Circuit Court of Appeals set it aside.
+
+Four futile attempts were made to influence the Post Office
+authorities to deny me the use of the mails.
+
+I was twice presented with the alternative of either agreeing to
+stop the publication of the truth or being thrown into jail on
+"framed" libel charges.  I chose the jail rather than renounce the
+right of the freedom of the press guaranteed me by the constitution
+of my country.
+
+When even the jail could not silence me, a diabolical attempt was
+made to bury me alive in an institution for the insane, but when
+it was found impossible to discover the slightest trace of insanity,
+or drive me insane during a sojourn of a month among maniacs, I
+was released.
+
+I verily believe that the honesty of the alienists in charge of the
+institution alone saved me from a living death.
+
+
+THE AUTHOR
+
+
+[Illustration: A Menace to good Government]
+
+
+"_The very nature of the business of the brewer makes it imperative
+that they retain a strong hold on the ballot box.  By those methods
+alone have they been able to exist in the past.  By those methods
+alone, can they hope to save themselves_"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+
+
+MY THIRTY YEARS' INTIMATE ASSOCIATION WITH THE BREWERS
+
+
+For about thirty years I have been closely allied with the brewing
+industry and was daily brought in contact with the brewers.
+
+I have been interested in a number of breweries as a stockholder.
+I have been intimately associated with many brewers throughout the
+country.  I am therefore thoroughly familiar with the inner history
+of the beer business and the political corruption, crime, vice and
+degeneracy closely interwoven therewith.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+
+PROHIBITION BANISHES CRIME
+
+
+Naturally, I am not a prohibitionist. Nevertheless, I dispute the
+contention of the brewers that they did not oppose but, instead,
+actually approved the enactment of the recent "bone-dry" prohibition
+legislation forbidding transportation of alcoholic beverages into
+states which prohibit the sale and manufacture of intoxicants, on
+the ground that its drastic measure would have a "reactionary effect"
+and thus result in the return of a number of the present "dry" states
+into the "wet" column.  Vaporings of this sort sound very much like
+the old sour grape story and have their origin in the fertile brain
+of the publicity manager of the beer trust.
+
+Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and the reduction of crime
+to a minimum, have invariably followed the "dry" wave.
+
+Prohibition has emptied the jails, and the people are gratified
+with the new order of things.  Everybody is happy except the
+liquor interests.
+
+A town in Georgia, having no further use for its jail, not having
+had an occupant for a long time as the result of the bone-dry law,
+has rented it out for another purpose.
+
+The most remarkable proof comes from the national capital.  Washington
+became saloonless on November 1, 1917.  During the month of November--
+the first dry month--official figures made public by the commissioners,
+comparing arrests for drunkenness during November, 1917, and the same
+month a year ago, show that during November, 1917, 199 arrests for
+drunkenness were made, as against 838 for November, 1916, a reduction
+of 639, or 76 per cent.  The greatest number of arrests for any one
+week in November, 1917, were 61, while the greatest number for the
+same period a year ago were 218.
+
+In Decatur, Ill., which went "dry" four years ago, the population
+has increased from 25,000 to 45,000.  It is claimed that the criminal
+cases have lessened 90 per cent, that the building of factories
+and houses has increased 30 per cent, that 2,700 savings depositors
+in banks were added and that there were 37 per cent less cases of
+public charity yearly.
+
+Nor will the loss of revenue permanently affect conditions.  The
+enormous wealth of the country will soon adjust that phase of the
+situation.
+
+Authorities assert there is no license city that keeps within its
+budget, whereas there is no dry city that is not financially
+improved by the ousting of the brewers.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+
+WHAT IS BEER?
+
+
+In the well known European beer drinking countries nothing but hops
+and malt are permitted in brewing.
+
+Here beer is a concoction of corn, rice, hops, malt, glucose,
+preservatives and other drugs--and, in most cases, it has nothing
+in common with real beer other than its artificial foam and color.
+
+A leader of public opinion made the statement in the United States
+Senate that "Beer that is brewed in this country is slop.  They say
+it is 'good for the health.' I never saw a man who drank it who was
+not a candidate for Bright's disease or paralysis."
+
+Mr. J. Frank Hanly, editor of the National Enquirer (Indianapolis),
+and former Governor of Indiana says: "Nor will the people be deceived
+by the fallacious contention that beer is a safe and harmless drink.
+Every laboratory in America refutes it.  Every sociologist knows
+better.  Every scientist of reputation condemns it.  The management
+of every great industrial interest, compelled by economic necessity,
+seeks its complete overthrow."
+
+
+
+"_The average beer drinker consumes more alcohol than the average
+whiskey drinker_"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+
+NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER IS A MYSTERIOUS COMPOUND OF DRUGS
+
+
+Numerous Processes are now in use for making non-alcoholic beer
+and the ingredients used are usually cloaked in deep mystery.
+
+In a recently patented process for the production of non-alcoholic
+beer it is admitted that salt, gum arabic, quassia, a pepsin compound
+and meta-bisulphite of potassium, or another suitable drug, are some
+of the materials used in brewing the non-alcoholic product.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+
+BEER IS A HABIT FORMING DRUG
+
+
+Eminent physicians ridicule the claim of the brewers that beer,
+even assuming that it were pure and unadulterated--and entirely
+free from poisonous drugs and chemicals--is a beverage of high
+food value and ranks with milk as a blood producer.
+
+A bulletin issued by the Department of Health of the City of New York
+in relation to the question of alcohol as food states that ten cents
+worth of beer provides 240 calories of food energy, while ten cents
+worth of oatmeal will provide 3,720 calories.
+
+There is no question that the indulgence in beer is merely an
+acquired habit.  To those who have not cultivated it, its taste
+is generally repugnant.
+
+Total abstinence for a while invariably cures the habit.  I have
+been told by a number of former strong adherents to the cause of
+the brewers, residing in territory now "dry", that even they are
+wondering why they ever saturated their systems with beer.  Physicians
+condemn its use and claim that the widespread idea that alcohol is
+a stimulant is wrong.  Beer is fast becoming an outcast.
+
+Fresh fruit juices, notably grape juice and apple cider, and other
+satisfying beverages, well flavored, with a considerable food value,
+are daily growing more popular and will take the place of beer.
+
+
+
+"_To rid the saloon of crime and vice would decrease the sale of beer_"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+
+WHY BEER IS NOT A FIT DRINK FOR THE HOME
+
+
+The alcoholic content of beer has been about four per cent.  The
+alcoholic content of the quality of whiskey generally sold over
+the bar is about forty per cent--and  frequently much less.  It
+can therefore be readily seen that the quantity of alcohol contained
+in a large glass of beer, even with the recent slightly reduced
+alcoholic content, is equivalent to about that contained in an
+ordinary drink of whiskey, which is sufficient to intoxicate any
+person not accustomed to its use.
+
+It is nothing unusual, even in the case of confirmed drinkers, to
+feel at times the intoxicating effect of a single glass of beer,
+especially when taken upon an empty stomach or when the system may
+not just be in proper condition.
+
+Brewers are recommending beer to expectant and nursing mothers and
+as a fit drink for the home.  But, on the other hand, they prefer
+to employ men who have not acquired the beer drinking habit.
+
+The most valuable men advocating the "wet" cause fight shy of beer.
+They know what it is made of.  Many saloonkeepers never touch it,
+nor will they employ bartenders unless they are total abstainers.
+
+
+
+"_If the saloons and other public drinking places were ousted,
+but the breweries permitted to operate, drunkenness, crime and
+vice would invade the home_"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+
+BEER IS NOT A TEMPERANCE DRINK
+
+
+It can not be denied that people drink beer for its alcoholic
+effect--and that most of the intoxication is caused by beer.
+
+Brewers claim that beer is a "true temperance drink," but they
+are careful to add--if taken in moderate quantities.
+
+If beer were ever consumed in moderate quantities it would result
+in a fifty per cent reduction of the beer output of the country.
+It would force most of the brewers out of business--and I doubt
+if any saloon could earn enough money to pay the rent of the place.
+For that reason brewers can not afford to encourage the enactment
+of laws abolishing "treating," despite their public statements that
+they are in favor of its suppression.
+
+In discussing the question with an acquaintance whom I know to be
+a very moderate drinker of beer only, he advanced the much heard
+argument that a glass of beer will harm no one.  He said that he
+occasionally dropped into a saloon to take a glass of beer.  When
+I asked him if, when he had gone into a saloon he had ever run
+across some friends and, to be a good fellow, he had been obliged
+to take a number of glasses, he replied "yes"--and that they had
+made him drunk.
+
+
+"_Brewers can not afford to abolish 'treating'_"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+
+THE DECREASED ALCOHOLIC CONTENT OF BEER WILL INCREASE DRUNKENNESS
+
+
+The decree of President Wilson that beer brewed henceforth in the
+United States during the pendency of the war shall not contain more
+than 2.75 per cent alcohol by weight, which is equivalent to
+3.4 per cent by volume,[Footnote: _This does not include ale and
+porter, the alcoholic content of which is permitted to remain
+considerably in excess of that of beer_.] and that the amount of
+grain used in its manufacture shall be reduced to approximately
+seventy per cent of the volume used heretofore, will not decrease
+intoxication, but it has caused intense jubilation among the
+brewers.  They pronounce it a great victory over the "dry" forces,
+and they have lost no time in again broadly proclaiming the virtues
+of their product and its "food" value.
+
+The slightly reduced alcoholic content of beer will still be ample
+to produce a high state of intoxication if, as is usually the case,
+it is consumed immoderately.  In substantiation of my contention I
+need but cite the irrefutable fact that a barrel of beer holding
+31 gallons would still contain a whole gallon of alcohol.
+
+Where the great danger lies is that the widely heralded reduction
+of the alcoholic content and the claim of the brewers that beer
+is now to be classed as a true temperance drink will tend to greatly
+deceive the public and thus largely increase its consumption, in
+most cases to cause "the same intoxicating effect as before."
+
+Besides, it has already become a common practice among many misguided
+drinkers to produce the desired "kick" by pouring whiskey, and even
+plain alcohol into the beer.
+
+In my opinion, therefore, the reduced alcoholic content will make
+the consumption of beer still more harmful than before, because,
+instead of diminishing drunkenness, it will have the opposite
+effect--and the brewers will be the big gainers because the new
+order of things will not only largely increase their output, but
+it will also reduce the cost of production without cutting the
+selling price.  And, by reason of their increased output, they
+will use the same amount of grain as before.
+
+Even with the reduced alcoholic content the beer drinker will consume
+more alcohol than the whiskey drinker.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+
+BREWERS' GRAINS ARE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS FOR COWS'MILK
+
+
+As an argument against the extermination of the breweries the claim
+is made that a part of the grain used in brewing is converted into
+a cattle feed which is a great "milk producer."
+
+Brewers' grains are the residue of barley malt and corn grits.
+They consist principally of barley hulls.
+
+Corn stalks are also fed to cattle, but they have very little
+food value without a considerable addition of whole grain.  Brewers'
+grains, as a milk producer, are a very poor substitute for the
+grain from which beer is brewed.
+
+Authorities claim that brewers' grains produce functional disturbances
+and disease in the cow--and milk from such cows is not safe for infants.
+
+Brewers' grains are not allowed to be used for the cows that yield milk
+and butter for Copenhagen, the capital of the country that leads
+the world in dairy farming.
+
+
+"_The closing of the breweries can alone remove the objectionable
+conditions inseparable from the beer traffic_"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+
+BREWERS ASSAULT DISTILLERS TO HIDE THEIR OWN CRIMES
+
+
+A nation-wide campaign has been set in motion by the brewers to
+beguile the public by assaulting the distillers.
+
+Distillers rarely sell direct to saloons as the brewers do.
+
+Distillers do not own or back saloons.
+
+Distillers are therefore not responsible for the lawless conditions
+of which the public complains--nor were they ever accused of stuffing
+the ballot box.
+
+Whiskey leaves the distillery in an unadulterated condition, while
+beer is drugged at the brewery.
+
+The average beer drinker consumes more alcohol than the average
+whiskey drinker.
+
+The National Advocate (New York) maintains that "beer is a greater
+peril to manhood, home and society than whiskey ever has been or
+can be."
+
+Are the attacks upon the distillers merely a ruse to conceal the
+fact that officers, directors and thousands of stockholders of the
+largest brewing companies in all parts of the country are either
+wholesale or retail whiskey dealers, or saloon keepers, or both?
+
+If the brewers are sincere in their promise to divorce beer from
+whiskey, why have they not closed their own whiskey stores?
+
+Why have they not placed a ban upon the sale of whiskey in all the
+saloons which they own and operate themselves?
+
+Why have they not forbidden the sale of whiskey in all saloons?
+What is there to prevent it?
+
+Is it not a fact that, with few exceptions, the so-called owners
+of saloons, not operated by brewers themselves, are merely slaves
+of the brewers, the latter owning either the property or the lease,
+the license and a chattel mortgage upon the fixtures in the place?
+
+The truth is that a saloon keeper can not exist if his business
+should be restricted to the sale of beer--and the closing of a
+saloon means a loss to the brewer.
+
+I quote here again from an editorial written by Mr. J. Frank Hanly,
+former Governor of Indiana, which appeared in the National Enquirer
+(Indianapolis), of which he is the editor, as follows:
+
+"When the writer of this editorial was a candidate for the nomination
+for Governor of the State of Indiana it was not the distilling
+interests of the State, but the brewers, that sought to wring from
+him a promise that in consideration for his nomination he should, if
+elected, permit no temperance legislation during his term.  It was
+the brewing interests of Indiana, not the distillers, that sought
+on the eve of election, after his nomination in spite of their
+opposition, to extort a like promise as the price of his election.
+
+"It was the president of the Indiana Brewers' Association, and not
+a representative of the distillery interests of the State, that
+walked into the Governor's office in Indianapolis, and with the
+arrogance of a Hun announced that he had come to say to the Governor
+that a township and ward remonstrance law which the governor had
+recommended to the General Assembly for enactment could not be
+passed by the legislature. . . . .
+
+"In all the history of the political and civil life of the American
+people there has been no combination or organization of power so
+brutal, so domineering, so corrupt, or so dead to every sense of
+civic interest or concern as the brewers of America. They have been
+and are the chief criminals, and no camouflage to which they may
+resort will save them.  The people will see beneath the false
+pretense the bare, naked facts.  The legislatures of the States
+will be organized into firing squads, and the beer trade will be
+compelled to meet its fate."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+
+ABOLITION OF CRIME AND VICE WOULD DECREASE THE SALE OF BEER
+
+
+Because brewers control the saloons, it is also within their power
+to suppress "treating," stop the operation of disorderly hotels
+and private drinking rooms in conjunction with saloons, stop
+bookmaking and other forms of gambling, in short, remove any and
+all of the undesirable features connected with the saloon which
+are objected to by the public--but any serious disturbance with
+existing conditions would decrease the sale of beer.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+
+CRIME IS PLANNED IN SALOONS
+
+
+The brewers know that the saloons are the meeting places of
+lawbreakers and disreputables, that they enter the side doors
+leading to private rooms where burglaries, holdups and other crimes
+are planned and the booty is divided--yet, brewers will make no real
+effort to improve these conditions.
+
+Is it surprising that the public is clamoring for the complete
+elimination of the breweries?
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+
+THE BEER TRAFFIC DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE SANCTITY OF THE HOME
+
+
+On the other hand, if the saloons and other public drinking places
+were ousted but the breweries permitted to operate, drunkenness,
+crime and vice would invade the home.
+
+If the people are determined to remove the objectionable elements
+inseparable from the beer traffic, they must close the breweries.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+
+A VICE COMPLAINT
+
+
+The Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago filed the following
+complaint with the Chief of Police:
+
+"Schoenhofen's Hall
+
+"One of the waiters serving drinks was no older than 14 years.  At
+midnight this boy was sitting at one of the tables half asleep
+trying to support a drunken man.  Fifty minors were illegally present.
+Ten minors drank intoxicants.  Three minors were intoxicated.
+Twenty soldiers were drinking intoxicants.  About fifteen soldiers
+were intoxicated.  One of the soldiers dancing was so drunk that
+the girl could hardly hold him up.  There were four instances of
+kissing, five of embracing, three of improper handling, and one fight."
+
+_The Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company operates the largest brewery
+in Chicago_.
+
+
+[Illustration: AN EVERY-DAY VICE SCENE]
+
+
+[Blank page]
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+
+LAWS ARE OPENLY VIOLATED
+
+
+I want to say here, however, that not all the brewers are as black
+as they are painted.  There are some among them who are clean and
+honest men who, bitterly resent the lawless methods of their colleagues.
+
+Upon the request of the respectable element I have frequently
+warned the brewers of the country that nothing could save their
+industry unless they made up their minds to become law abiding
+citizens and stop fooling the people.
+
+I have warned them on many occasions that they had no right to
+enlist the sympathy of the people as long as they persisted in
+defying the laws enacted by the people, but my warnings fell upon
+deaf ears.
+
+What can cause greater hostility toward the brewers than the fact
+that midnight closing and Sunday laws are openly violated with their
+knowledge and connivance and that political influence and the liberal
+use of money will gain them immunity from prosecution?
+
+Has it not frequently been said that the "dough bags" of the brewers
+control the courts and influence their decisions?
+
+
+_"Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and the reduction of
+crime to a minimum, have invariably followed the 'dry' wave"_
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+
+ANOTHER VICE BACKED BY BREWERS
+
+
+
+CABARETS
+AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS
+
+
+How little my advice was heeded was clearly shown by, the appearance
+of a comparatively new vice--openly aided and abetted by brewers--
+which in a few years has spread its poisonous tentacles to all parts
+of the country.  I refer to
+
+
+CABARETS AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS
+
+
+What more can inflame the mind of the public against the brewers
+than these vulgar and liquor flowing twentieth century dives,
+especially when the fact is considered that many of these gilded
+hells are owned and operated by brewers themselves?
+
+In many European cities similar resorts are classed among houses
+of ill repute and the same police regulations are applied to them.
+Here, they are brazenly advertised as "afternoon teas" to lure
+the unwary.
+
+In my travels I have visited many of the most prominently
+advertised places of this kind in different parts of the country
+to study the habitues.
+
+It can not be denied that most of these dives are the rendezvous
+of the demimonde, breeding places of vice, crime and degeneracy,
+and an ally of the white slave traffic.
+
+They are keeping the divorce mills busy.  Their glitter has led
+astray, caused the disappearance of and has driven to suicide
+innumerable young women, particularly from among those who have
+come from rural districts to seek employment in large cities.
+They have made criminals of many young men because their salaries
+would not permit them to lead the fast life of their newly made friends.
+
+The principal source of profit to the keepers of these dives is,
+of course, the sale of alcoholic drinks--in most cases grossly
+adulterated despite the unreasonable prices exacted for same.
+
+Female performers are frequently expected to drink with the patrons.
+Usually these women are paid a commission on the drinks they can
+persuade their dupes to purchase.
+
+Scenes of indecency are openly indulged in by both sexes as the
+result of the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks.
+
+A recent development of the cabaret is the "hostess."  Her duty
+is to "introduce" men and girls.  In many instances hotels of
+questionable character are operated as an adjunct to these places.
+
+The managers of a number of large hotels which have built up a
+reputation for respectability and exclusiveness have long ago seen
+the handwriting on the wall and therefore wisely placed a ban upon
+this evil.  Ladies refuse to stop at hotels that attract an undesirable
+element by the operation of cabarets and present-day dances.
+
+The fact that many of these places which are owned and operated
+by brewers themselves continue in full blast again discredits the
+statements of their press agents that "the cabaret must go."
+
+Will the brewers continue their policy of defying the people until
+nation-wide prohibition will put a stop to these drunken orgies?
+
+
+How a New York Brewer Advertises His Cabaret Resort
+
+
+The following advertisement appeared in
+
+
+_The New York Times_:
+
+
+[Illustration: _John Reisenweber, the keeper of this resort, is
+a well known brewer. He is President of the Excelsior Brewing Company,
+Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York_.]
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII.
+
+
+MILLIONS EXPENDED IN CORRUPTING ELECTIONS
+
+
+
+UNITED STATES BREWERS' ASSOCIATION EXPOSED
+
+
+I have also many times urged the brewers to break away from their
+national organization, the United States Brewers' Association--
+also known as the Brewers Trust--because I felt convinced that
+they would sooner or later lay themselves open to exposure and
+criminal prosecution, and that it would further increase the
+hostility toward their industry if they should persist in their
+attempts to defeat the prohibition movement by the expenditure
+of money in corrupting elections, legislation and public officials.
+
+Political contributions amounting to many millions of dollars,
+based upon the annual output of brewers throughout the country,
+are turned into their association.
+
+Other enormous sums are collected from those who sell to brewers.
+They are expected to join a "league of manufacturers and dealers"
+organized to fight prohibition.  From invoices rendered to brewers
+for goods purchased a certain amount is retained.
+
+Officials of the United States Brewers' Association declare that
+checkbooks, bank passbooks, checks, stubs and correspondence are
+destroyed monthly, and that the only record left is the money the
+association has in bank.
+
+That my warnings were justified was amply proven when, not long ago,
+the large brewing companies in the state of Texas were indicted
+charging them with the distribution of many millions of dollars to
+promote anti-prohibition legislation and the payment of the poll
+taxes of thousands of persons so that they could vote against
+prohibition.  All of these breweries except one pleaded guilty
+to the charges against them and paid penalties aggregating $276,000,
+also expenses incurred by the Attorney General's office, totaling
+about $10,000, and the court costs, and they accepted an injunction
+restraining them from violating the state anti-trust laws and
+contributing to political campaigns in the future.
+
+One hundred large brewing companies in the State of Pennsylvania,
+and officers of the United States Brewers' Association, were
+indicted by a Federal Grand Jury, charging conspiracy in the
+unlawful expenditure of money to influence elections at which
+votes for federal officials were cast.
+
+The office of the United States Brewers' Association in the City
+of New York was raided and its files were seized.  The secretary
+of the association was committed to jail.
+
+It was alleged that these brewers raised and spent a fund exceeding
+$1,000,000, to influence the election of a United States senator
+and thirty-six members of the lower House of Congress and to pervert
+to selfish and sordid purposes the government of the nation.
+
+The United States Attorney charged in court that these brewers had
+boasted in their circulars of their ability to poison the ranks of
+organized labor through labor unions, to kill at one session of
+Congress two hundred bills inimical to the liquor interests, and
+to capture entire states at elections.
+
+Fines aggregating $50,000 were imposed upon thirty-three of these
+brewing companies. The United States Brewers' Association was fined
+$10,000--the maximum amount possible under the Federal law.
+
+Federal authorities have hinted at a nation-wide traffic in election
+corruption.  Intimations have come from the same source that similar
+indictments may be handed down against brewers in all parts of the country.
+
+But even the scandalous exposures in Texas and Pennsylvania will not
+stop their interference with elections.
+
+The truth is that the very nature of the business of the brewers
+makes it imperative that they retain a strong hold on the ballot
+box.  By those methods alone have they been able to exist in the
+past.  By those methods alone can they hope to save themselves.
+
+In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the mere suggestion to
+keepers of saloons, hotels and other places where liquor is sold
+that the "dry" wave may soon put them out of business usually
+brings forth the reply: "Our state will never go 'dry.'  The brewers
+have too much money.  They can buy all the votes required, as well
+as public officials, to kill any legislation hostile to them."
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+
+HOW CHICAGO BREWERS HAVE
+TRIED TO PREVENT A "DRY"
+VOTE
+
+
+In Chicago, heretofore considered by the brewers one of their
+greatest strongholds, in order to enable the people to vote whether
+the city shall remain "wet" or become "dry," the law requires the
+filing of a petition with a certain number of signatures, but the
+brewers opposed even the right of the people to vote upon this
+important question and in glaring advertisements boldly advised
+them to withhold their signatures.
+
+Attempts were also made to intimidate the circulators of the
+petitions by threatening them with prosecution for perjury unless
+they personally knew that all the signers were registered voters.
+
+In spite of these methods, 148,802 signatures were obtained,
+42,302 more than the 106,500 names required under the law.
+
+Attempts made by politicians to defer the election for a year on
+the plea of "economy" were also unsuccessful.  In many quarters
+same was branded as another ruse on the part of the brewers to
+prevent a "dry" vote.
+
+
+"_The beer traffic does not recognize the sanctity of the home_"
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX.
+
+
+BREWERS FEAR
+WOMAN SUFFRAGE
+
+
+Women know that the abolition of the beer traffic will prevent
+their children from becoming drunkards and criminals.
+
+Women know that the abolition of the beer traffic means a full
+pay envelope on Saturday--a happier home--and more food and clothes
+for them and their children.
+
+Women know that in the states where the beer traffic has been
+ousted, wage earners who formerly spent the greater part of their
+earnings in saloons have, since the advent of the "dry" wave,
+invested their savings in a house and lot, and in a few years
+were able to pay off the entire indebtedness--and now are masters
+of their own home.
+
+That's the reason why brewers greatly fear the votes of women and
+why they consider woman suffrage the stepping stone to prohibition.
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX.
+
+
+PEOPLE RESENT GOVERNMENT BY
+THE BREWERS
+
+
+It is not the beer traffic alone, but the social and political
+crimes of the brewers, which is leading to rapid prohibitory laws
+all over the country.
+
+People resent government by the brewers.  People resent the election
+of legislators and other public officials, city, state and national,
+to serve ends hostile to social decency, to rule by the people, to
+the very life of the nation.
+
+
+
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