Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-12-12
The Brewers Educational
Campaign.

The following statement appear
ed in the st. Louis Republic Nov.
18th, 1907. The editor OF the ISSUE
has added the comment in the
brackets, also emphasized acme
Of the brewers statements. Be-
You'd a doubt in our minds the
brewers are paying $50 much per
line" for these "interview adver-
tisements."
"The Anheuser- Busch Brewing
Association has inaugurated a
campaign against prohibition.
With the cooperation OF practical
ly all the large breweries in the
United States, the company will
endeavor in every commonwealth
to prevent the application of ex-
IRENE policies.
"We still desire as always"
said August A. Busch, vice pres
ident Of the association, "to con-
duct our business along legitimate
and respectable lines"
"As always" that is as they
have in Kansas the past twenty
five years until the supreme a%court
of that state literally kicked them
out and coniscated their Illegal
holdings. "As always" that is as
they are now doing in Rich Hill
and many other border towns,
maintaining an agency to ship
liquors into Kansas. Legitimate
and respectable lines" that is lid
lifting clubs, st Louis county law
less saloons, Sunday Beer Gardens
and Wine Rooms.)
If evidence is submitted to us
that any saloon violates the law,
or is run in a disorderly manner,
we shall refuse to sell beer, malt
nutriue or any other product of
our establishment to it. That 1
believe, is a fair proposition"
Very we'll, no saloon could eX-
list and pay the tribute money
without selling to drunkards,
which is unlawful. There would
be few drunkards to rob their
families, beat their wives and
damn their own souls if the liquor
traffic did not make them out of
boys, and it is unlawful to sell to
a minor. We can furnish the
evidence that would close every
saloon in the State if the brewer
told the truth as above stated
"The pay roll of our brewery
alone aggregates no less than
S220, 900 a month. Besides the
brewery, glass, ice and other
plants in st. Louis, we have six
breweries in as many different
cities and states, supply depots
and iceing plants at numerous
points, hundreds of auxiliary
businesses, coal mines, terminals,
railroads and freight facilities. 1t
would be impossible to indicate
offhand, the heavy investments OF
our company or the extent and
variety Of our auxiliary interests"
C'S250, 900 a month";" and most
every dollar of it comes from
drunkards whose wives and child
rem need it, and yet the breweries
have gathered such vast fortunes
from the misfortunes Of the help
less that sit would be impossible
to indicate, offhand" how much
"our company has invested.)
ONLY EXTREMES FOUGHT.
Our success, along proper lines,
is of Importance to st. Louis and
Missouri and other cities and
States in which we operate, as
we'll to us. The employees of our
breweries and auxiliary industries
are materially concerned in our
prosperity, and SO are those who
grow and furnish all the ingred-
tents for making beer"
(''As we'll as to u.s." yes there is
the rub. The brewers are Interest,"
ed in themselves first, last and all
the time. How much interest
have the brewers in the two thou
sand convicts they have at Jeffer-
son City in the wives and child
rem Of the drunkards they have
made; in the homes they wreck;
in the souls they destroy9)
"The wal for prohibition is Pc
ing carried to absurd extremes
to extremes which, ii generally
enforced, would have evil rather
than beneficial consequences.
Prohibition is eveu worse than ex-
cess indulgence, as experience
and statistics prove"
('sIf generally enforced" and
that is what they fear, claw en-
forcement." None but a "crimi-
nall fears law enforcement.
prohibition worse than excess"
Yes, for the brewers. That is all
the the average brewer has.
a sober man, in his right mind,
worse than a crazy drunken man.
Yes, better for the brewer and his
fortune for the brewer might have
to work TOR an honest living if he
could not make drunkards.)
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