Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-13
BREWERS TO FIGHT IT
Allegheny County Men of Hops on
Their Pilgrimage to Discover
THE DEADLY DOSE FOR PROHIB.
A Great Volume of Literature. Appealing
to Every Voting Citizen,
50 AS TO COUNTERFEIT COLD WATER

About dozen brewers of this city left
yesterday for Philadelphia to attend the an
nual meeting of the State Brewers Associa-
tion to be held at that place beginning to-
day. Among the party were Edward j.
Frauenheim, L. Vilsack, Samuel VAIN
wright, John Walters, Joseph Bruening,
Herman Straub, j. w. Nusser, Chris
Bauerlein and Frank Ober.
The convention will be the most impor-
tant that has been held since the formation
of the Brewers Association. After the
ton of officers the question of what part the
brewers shall take in the coming special
election will come up for consideration. 1t
is expected thata programme of work will be
outlined in the different sections of the
State and strong effort will be made to
stem the tide of public opinion in favor of
the Constitutional amendment. Several of
the brewers here will agitate the question of
sending out speakers to stump the State
close upon the heels of the prohibition
speakers. Others are in favor of putting
thousands of
DOLLARS IN LITERATURE
to be sent to every voter in the State.
There is no question but that something
will be done, and thousands of dollars will
be spent to defeat the proposed amendment.
Mr.. Edward Frauenheim, of the firm of
Frauenheim & Vilsack, the Iron City
brewery, said yesterday:
''In answer to the question of what part
the brewers will take in the coming election
on the Constitutional amendment, cannot
say definitely, but you can rest assured we
will fight it from every quarter. If the
election would be held next week there is
strong probability that we would be de-
feated. As it will not be held for months
yet the voters will have time to think the
matter over and carefully consider what they
intend doing. All the popular sentimentthat
is now sweeping over the country will die
out long before the time for voting comes.
There is great difference between abso-
lutte prohibition and local option. The
Prohibitionists think that because certain
town or county voted for local option they
will vote for prohibition. This has been
found not to be the case. Thousands of
people will vote for local option who would
not vote for prohibition. The reason for
this is because a man does not wish to have
a saloon right near him where his sons will
be tempted into it. These people will vote
for mo liquor right in their immediate
vicinity, but when it comes to driving the
business out of the State entirely they will
look at the matter in serious light, and
VOTE THE OTHER WAY.
'Take for instance a man living at
place like Sewickley. He will vote against
having liquor in town, but does not object
to having it in Allegheny or Pittsburg.
st is to be expected that we will fight
this matter. and the public may rest assured
that we will protect our business. The vote
in the country districts will not be as large
as people are now expecting. One particu-
lar county I will mention. It has been said
that Westmoreland would give big prohi-
hibition majority. Now 1 have been all
over the county and from very close esti-
mates 1 think the liquor interests will have
a majority of between 1000 and 5,000
"Since the agitation has beenstarted the
prohibition people have been, claiming
everything, and one would suppose that
they intend to wipe the liquor men off the
face of the earth. The brewers and distillers
have been Saving a lot of wood in the
meantime, and saying nothing. When the
time comes We will be on hand. We GER
tainly don't intend to see hundreds of mil
lions of dollars of capital killed and the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ruined by
prohibition laws. The Brooks law made
wonderful change in this State, and the
temperance folks may find out that they
did not know when they had enough"