Washington sentinel., 1901-05-04

ture the kegs here. In this work IRON
/, 200 to 500 men would be employed
which would be a great benefit TO the
city,"
The invention has been patented and
Mr.. Sauer expects the last papers from
Washington in a short time.
Mr.. Charles Ehlermann, Of the
Chas. Ehlermann Hop and Malt Co ol
ST. Louis, Mo. ,:last month celebrated
the fortieth anniversary of his entrance
into this business. He signalized the
event by sending to his friends and
patrons a tray handsomely done in
colored enamel, having in the center a
portrait of himself and in the margin a
view of his factory and warehouses and
other subjects associated with his busi-
ness, with a memorandum of the occa-
sion of the fortieth anniversary at the
bottom. The tray constitutes a beautiful
souvenir of an event in which the entire
brewing trade and the auxiliary trades
are profoundly interested.
The liquor dealers of Ohio, says the
Columbus EVeainR DiSpateh, will have
to pay the fddlers at the fall election,
but whether in the nature Of an increase
in the Dow tax or the enactment of a
local option bill along the lines of the
defeated Clark bill, remains to be seen.
The temperance sentiment among the
people OF the State is on the increase,
and it was to appease this sentiment
that the Dow tax was increased from
S'so to $3.50 several years ago The
Dow tax would have been increased to
$500 last winter, but the Republican
party leaders had promised the saloon
people that there should be no adverse
legi laiion of any kind, and for that
reason no compromise was sought with
the antlsaloon people, the issue being
squarelY upon the passage or defeat OF
the Clark Local Option bill,
IIe same question is up again this
year. The antsaloon people have
already prepared a draft of the local
option bill which they will have intro
duced, and they are trying hard to secure |
the return OF former Representative |
Harris of Ashtabula county, to the |
Senate, 50 that he can champion the |
measure in the Senate, hoping at the
same time to secure the reelection of
bill in the House. The citizens OF Gin
cinnaG Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo,
Dayton, Akron and Canton will send a
total Of IA members to the Senate, so
that out OF all the other districts in the
State the saloon people will have to
carry only six or seven to insure defeat
Of any temperance legislation that may
come before the General Assembly, on
the assumption OF course that the cities
will follow the old rule of sending liquor
1t is IN recognition OF
This fact that the antisaloon people are
sndeavoring to control the nominations
IN the rural districts.
The anti saloon people experience
heir greatest trouble in the Senate, for
he reason that nearly one.hali the
membership comes from the cities,
where the saloon keepers are a power
n politics. The leaders Of both parties
IRE opposed to local option legislation,
'ut they are not particularly hostile to
increasing the Dow tax, and It is said
t will be part of the Republican plan
his year to increase the Dow tax and
q this way to insure the defeat Of local
ption. There will be no radical tenn
ersnce legislation if they can prevent
!. The anti saloon people Of course
,ill oppose any such plan. They com
lain that the number OF saloons in the
tate has increased under the taxation
ystem, though the immediate effect Of
he Goodaie amendment to the Dow
Nv increasing the tax to $3.50 was to
sduce the number, In the last two or
Tree years the number has been steadily
Icreasng until now there are more
lloons in Ohio than ever before, unless
be to go back to the DAYS when there
as tax on the traffic. The Repub-
can politicians attribute this increase
saloons to the wave of Republican
which set in soon after the
ectiCn OF an Ohio man to the Presi.
,ncv. and which still continues.