Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-26
How the Brewers Regard the Prohibition
Movement.
Extract from a letter by D. W. Gage in th'
Maririta Re1iSter

Extract from q letter by u. W. GaSe IN lne
Marietta Register
Wi bout at al arguing the question, |
desire 10 quote a few sentences taken
from the twenty.first annual report OF
United States brewers convention, held
in Chicago, Illinois, May 18th and 18th,
1891, which by the kindness. and
courtesy of the secretary | have now be-
lore me.
On page - Of the report is the follow
ing from the Executive and Board OF
Trustees:
Your Executive, in presenting the
annual report of the action OF your as
ISOLATION during the past year, regret
that they are enable TO congratulate you
on any remarkable increase in produc
,iun and sale of malt liquors; this, they
believe, may be partly accounted for by
the prolonged Indictment winter through
which We have passed and also by the
increased activity displayed by our re
~lentless adversaries, the ultra.prohibi-
tionists, who appear, since our last o
ventiOn, to have been passing through
one Of their periodic spasms OF fanatic
ism, causing measures to be passed I'D
various States (which will he presented
in the report OF your Agitation Com
~n.i,tee) calculated to r-tard and destroy
the brewing business
From the report OF the Agitation Com
mittee l quote from pages 81 and 81 a.
follows:
IL is with extreme regret that your
Agitation Committee notice that since
the presentation of its last report con-
siderable progress has been made IN
MANY States by the ultra-Prohlbltion
ist party. In Congress the commission
of FIVE TO investigate the liquor traffic
has for q time failed, not that the matt
LIQUOR interest has anything to fear from
such an investigation, yet the principe
in itself is odiouS in q free and enllght'
ened country, and you are to be con-
graduated on this result.
"The State Of Kansas, for the time
pea entirely subjugated to the ultra
Prohibitionist, having passed a law de-
priving the brewing business OF all us
privileges, and which renders all prop
erty EMPLOYED in it yalueless. " In the
State of Iowa an amendment to the con,
stitution has beer adopted, by a vote OF
70 to 81, threatening the brewers Win
similar consequence. = In the state
of Indiana both houses of the Leslsia'
ture have passed a prohibitory constitu,
tional amendment. > In the State Of
Pennsylvania the Lower House OF the
LEGISLATURE has adopted q prohibitory
| constitutional amendment by o to o9
| In the Illinois Legislature a prohlbltory
| constitutional amendment passed by a
majority of five votes, but ultimately
failed for want of a constitutional ma
ioritv. This amendment, if passed woulo
have destroyed every brewery in the
State Rhode Island has decided IN favor
of a constitutional amendment. In con
cIusien your committee present as tneli
opinion. which has been more or less
stated in the puolic press, that the signs
of the times indicate that the poiltico-
moral question OF the rising generation
will be the prohibition OF all into1lca'
ting liquors, just as the abolition o
| slavery was Of the past; therefore 1t De
hoyes us to use every means to MAN
tain in its proper position the mall
Eouor interests of the United States
and to this question they earnestly Ill
rect our attention"