The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-04-30
GOVERNMENT BY BREWERY.
(Concluded.)

as an alderman in favor of good o,der
 in the community He had done noth.
 ing dire;tly to decrease the number of
 saloons nor to reduce by so much as one
 glass the beer transported by the rail.
 road The brewers evidently thought
 an anti.screen rule directly hostile to
 them. Being on the board of aldermen
 he had certain obligations arising out
 of that office; but here is demand
 from a business interest in distant
 city that he pe'iure himself with refer
 ence to his oath of office expressed or
 implied as an alderman, certainly the
 oath he took before he cast his first
 vote as an American citizen. He is
 required ly his employer to refuse to
 act conscientiously as an honorable and
 patriotic American citizen.
 In other words, the brewers intend
 to run this country in their interests.
 In every community where 'their busi-
 ness" is carried on they propose to make that community's laws They
 have men employed whose business it
 is to see to it that no railroad which serves as a carrier for their products shall employ any man who desires even remotely to exercise his rights of citi
 zensbip when those rights seem to interfere with what the brewers con. slider a higher ri riSht-th-ir own private profit. Not only do they demand this,
 which is small matter, but they are able to enforce their demands upon the railroads, which is ly no means small matter. How any self respecting railway superintendent can write sucl, letter as the above is to me incompre
 hensible. The fact is. that letter is not seif-respecting. It is the abroga. tion of self respect lii, the admission of a slavery so atject that many man would rather resign any salary that any railroad could give him rather than sign his name to such letter.
 r The following is an example of another sort of railway official
 The "Wine and Spirit Gazatte" of New York, publishes the following, to which we call the attention of the brewers and joJbers who ship goods to their customers iy rail:
 "The - Railroad company is en. forcing most vigorously it's new rule forLidding its employees from indul sing in wine, liquor, or beer It has n strong force of detectives employed watching the men. and resorts to every artifce to catch them drinking. One young engineer who was hauled uvr, the coal' protested his innocence and insisted that he never drank. There. upon pnotogriph was promptly pro duced showing the young man in the act of drinking a glass of beer. The kodak had done the business and his head rolled in the basket. An engi. ncer who notoriously never touches liquor of any kind was discharged fo' not reporting a subordinate who did. This is carrying the business rather beyond tho bounds of legitimacy. A company may properly demand st'ic: propriety from it's employees while on duty, but it certainly has no right to inte, fere with them at other times. Indeed Employees are not slaves p
 We have reason to know that the . Railroad company has no use for papers published in the interest of the liquor trade, but freely issues editorial passes to the prohibition papers in ex. change for advertising space. "A word to the wise."
 The above slip was sent by certain paper published in the interests of the iquor traffic, to prominent official of ;he railroad named. accompanied by threat to publish it unless advertise. nents and passes were forthcoming. rEe railroad official paid 10 attention > e the communication which course E aems to me infinitely more diynifrd > md worthy of the high position of rhp 5 general manager of great railroad han the letter which stands at the lead of this article, with it's shameful 5 ubserviency to the impudent dictation } f the liquor traffic.
 It is quite easy to understand that he business tempe,tion is great where 'uadreds of thousands of dollars in !