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After the failure of +this plot to dispose of me, I was subjected to almost unbelievable +insults, persecution, humiliation and injustice in the courts.<p> + +A friendly federal judge was besought to stop me by an injunction. +The United States Circuit Court of Appeals set it aside.<p> + +Four futile attempts were made to influence the Post Office +authorities to deny me the use of the mails.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +I verily believe that the honesty of the alienists in charge of the +institution alone saved me from a living death. +<br><br> + +THE AUTHOR +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + +<a name="photoB"></a><Center><IMG SRC="photoB.jpg" ALT="Political cartoon of ballot box" width="60%"></Center> + +<br> +<p>"<i>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</i>" + + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="1"></a>CHAPTER I. +<br><br><br> + +MY THIRTY YEARS'<br> +INTIMATE ASSOCIATION<br> +WITH THE BREWERS +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>For about thirty years I have been closely allied with the brewing +industry and was daily brought in contact with the brewers.<p> + +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. + + + +<center><h3><br><br><br> +<a name="2"></a>CHAPTER II. +<br><br><br> + +PROHIBITION BANISHES CRIME +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and the reduction of crime +to a minimum, have invariably followed the "dry" wave.<p> + +Prohibition has emptied the jails, and the people are gratified +with the new order of things. Everybody is happy except the +liquor interests.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +Nor will the loss of revenue permanently affect conditions. The +enormous wealth of the country will soon adjust that phase of the +situation.<p> + +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. + + + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="3"></a>CHAPTER III. +<br><br><br> + +WHAT IS BEER? +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>In the well known European beer drinking countries nothing but hops +and malt are permitted in brewing.<p> + +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.<p> + +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."<p> + +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." + + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>"<i>The average beer drinker consumes more alcohol than the average +whiskey drinker</i>" + + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="4"></a>CHAPTER IV. +<br><br><br> + +NON-ALCOHOLIC BEER<br> +IS A MYSTERIOUS COMPOUND<br> +OF DRUGS +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>Numerous Processes are now in use for making non-alcoholic beer +and the ingredients used are usually cloaked in deep mystery.<p> + +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. + + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="5"></a>CHAPTER V. +<br><br><br> + +BEER IS A HABIT FORMING DRUG +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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. + + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>"<i>To rid the saloon of crime and vice would decrease the sale of beer</i>" + + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="6"></a>CHAPTER VI. +<br><br><br> + +WHY BEER IS NOT A FIT DRINK<br> +FOR THE HOME +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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. + + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>"<i>If the saloons and other public drinking places were ousted, +but the breweries permitted to operate, drunkenness, crime and +vice would invade the home</i>" + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="7"></a>CHAPTER VII. +<br><br><br> + +BEER IS NOT A TEMPERANCE<br> +DRINK +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>It can not be denied that people drink beer for its alcoholic +effect--and that most of the intoxication is caused by beer.<p> + +Brewers claim that beer is a "true temperance drink," but they +are careful to add--if taken in moderate quantities.<p> + +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.<p> + +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. + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>"<i>Brewers can not afford to abolish 'treating'</i>" + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="8"></a>CHAPTER VIII. +<br><br><br> + +THE DECREASED ALCOHOLIC<br> +CONTENT OF BEER WILL<br> +INCREASE DRUNKENNESS +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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: <i>This does not include ale and +porter, the alcoholic content of which is permitted to remain +considerably in excess of that of beer</i>.] 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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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."<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +Even with the reduced alcoholic content the beer drinker will consume +more alcohol than the whiskey drinker. + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="9"></a>CHAPTER IX. +<br><br><br> + +BREWERS' GRAINS ARE<br> +CONSIDERED DANGEROUS<br> +FOR COWS' MILK +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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."<p> + +Brewers' grains are the residue of barley malt and corn grits. +They consist principally of barley hulls.<p> + +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.<p> + +Authorities claim that brewers' grains produce functional disturbances +and disease in the cow--and milk from such cows is not safe for infants.<p> + +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. + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>"<i>The closing of the breweries can alone remove the objectionable +conditions inseparable from the beer traffic</i>" + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="10"></a>CHAPTER X. +<br><br><br> + +BREWERS ASSAULT DISTILLERS<br> +TO HIDE THEIR OWN CRIMES +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>A nation-wide campaign has been set in motion by the brewers to +beguile the public by assaulting the distillers.<p> + +Distillers rarely sell direct to saloons as the brewers do.<p> + +Distillers do not own or back saloons.<p> + +Distillers are therefore not responsible for the lawless conditions +of which the public complains--nor were they ever accused of stuffing +the ballot box.<p> + +Whiskey leaves the distillery in an unadulterated condition, while +beer is drugged at the brewery.<p> + +The average beer drinker consumes more alcohol than the average +whiskey drinker.<p> + +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."<p> + +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?<p> + +Why have they not placed a ban upon the sale of whiskey in all the +saloons which they own and operate themselves?<p> + +Why have they not forbidden the sale of whiskey in all saloons? +What is there to prevent it?<p> + +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?<p> + +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.<p> + +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:<p> + +"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.<p> + +"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. . . . .<p> + +"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." + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="11"></a>CHAPTER XI. +<br><br><br> + +ABOLITION OF CRIME AND VICE<br> +WOULD DECREASE THE<br> +SALE OF BEER +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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. + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="12"></a>CHAPTER XII. +<br><br><br> + +CRIME IS PLANNED IN SALOONS +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +Is it surprising that the public is clamoring for the complete +elimination of the breweries? + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="13"></a>CHAPTER XIII. +<br><br><br> + +THE BEER TRAFFIC DOES NOT<br> +RECOGNIZE THE SANCTITY<br> +OF THE HOME +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +If the people are determined to remove the objectionable elements +inseparable from the beer traffic, they must close the breweries. + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="14"></a>CHAPTER XIV. +<br><br><br> + +A VICE COMPLAINT +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>The Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago filed the following +complaint with the Chief of Police:<p> + +"Schoenhofen's Hall<p> + +"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."<p> + +<i>The Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company operates the largest brewery +in Chicago</i>.<p> + + +<a name="photoC"></a><Center><IMG SRC="photoC.jpg" ALT="Drawing of vice scene"></Center> + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="15"></a>CHAPTER XV. +<br><br><br> + +LAWS ARE OPENLY VIOLATED +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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?<p> + +Has it not frequently been said that the "dough bags" of the brewers +control the courts and influence their decisions? + +<br><br><br><br> +<p><i>"Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and the reduction of +crime to a minimum, have invariably followed the 'dry' wave"</i> + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="16"></a>CHAPTER XVI. +<br><br><br> + +ANOTHER VICE BACKED BY<br> +BREWERS +</h3></center> +<br><br> +<center><hr width="20%"></center> +<br><br> +<center><h3> +CABARETS<br> +AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS +<br><br><br></h3></center> + +<p>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<p> + + +<center><a name="cabarets">CABARETS AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS</a></center><p> + + +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?<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +Scenes of indecency are openly indulged in by both sexes as the +result of the excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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."<p> + +Will the brewers continue their policy of defying the people until +nation-wide prohibition will put a stop to these drunken orgies? + +<br><br><br> +<center><b>How a New York Brewer Advertises His Cabaret Resort</b><br> + +The following advertisement appeared in<br> + +<i>The New York Times</i>:</center> + +<center><a name="photoD"></a><Center><IMG SRC="photoD.jpg" ALT="Reisenweber's advertisement"></Center> +<br> +<i>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</i>.</center> + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="17"></a>CHAPTER XVII. +<br><br><br> + +MILLIONS EXPENDED IN<br> +CORRUPTING ELECTIONS +</h3></center> +<br><br> +<center><hr width="20%"></center> +<br><br> +<center><h3> +UNITED STATES<br> +BREWERS' ASSOCIATION<br> +EXPOSED +<br><br><br></h3></center> + +<p>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.<p> + +Political contributions amounting to many millions of dollars, +based upon the annual output of brewers throughout the country, +are turned into their association.<p> + +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.<p> + +<a name="USBA"></a>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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +But even the scandalous exposures in Texas and Pennsylvania will not +stop their interference with elections.<p> + +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.<p> + +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." + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII. +<br><br><br> + +HOW CHICAGO BREWERS HAVE<br> +TRIED TO PREVENT A "DRY"<br> +VOTE +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +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.<p> + +In spite of these methods, 148,802 signatures were obtained, +42,302 more than the 106,500 names required under the law.<p> + +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. + +<br><br><br><br> +<p>"<i>The beer traffic does not recognize the sanctity of the home</i>" + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="19"></a>CHAPTER XIX. +<br><br><br> + +BREWERS FEAR<br> +WOMAN SUFFRAGE +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>Women know that the abolition of the beer traffic will prevent +their children from becoming drunkards and criminals.<p> + +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.<p> + +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.<p> + +That's the reason why brewers greatly fear the votes of women and +why they consider woman suffrage the stepping stone to prohibition. + + +<center><h3><br><br><br><a name="20"></a>CHAPTER XX. +<br><br><br> + +PEOPLE RESENT GOVERNMENT BY<br> +THE BREWERS +<br><br><br></h3></center> + + +<p>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.<p> + +People resent government by the brewers. 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