The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-11
That and Not Prohibition
Is What They Want,
Says SpOkesmeH.
WOULD EXTIRPATE EVILS
Gottfried Kruger Among Those
Who Favor Publication Of
Saloon. Opposed to Local
Option-.Like Views Ex-
pressed by A. Busch.

Realization of a pending struggle be-
tween the advocates of temperance and
the brewers of the State has aroused
the latter. who. fearing that the spread
OF prohibition sentiment now prevailing
largely In the South and West and in
vading the North may become general
in New Jersey, are making efforts to
combat the feeling, while the anti
saloon men of the country are concen-
trating their efforts in the hope of Sc
curing the passage of local option bills
by the Legislatures next winter
A large meeting of all the brewery
interests in and about New York was
to have been held theIe last night for
a further consideration of the subject.
but notices were sent out early in the
day deferrlng action nnt1 a future date.
In line with the action of representa-
tives Of the Anheuser-iBusch Schlitz,
Pabst and other large brewing interests
who met in New York recently and
pledged themselves to assist in abolish
ing dives and immoral saloons, the New
Jersey State Brewers Association has
decided to eliminate, as far as possible,
the Objectionable featurGRg in connection
with the sale of liquor ny disseminating
the sale of their product to undesirable
saloon-keepers and hous es Of ill repute.
This decision was arrived at recently,
and the consideration of ways and
means OF accomplishing the result is
said to form the principal topic of dis
cussion at the meetings. of the associa-
ton. The question will be brought up
again tomorrow afternoon, when the
brewers meet in the Prudential build
ing, according to the statement of
Gottfried KRUGER, president of the So
ciety.
1--WE have been considering this mat
ter and have decided to have a house,
cleaning" said the former Judge last
night to q reporter.
"At present the temperance people
are making great gains all over the
country, and the wind is blowing their
way; after a while the wand viii blow
the other way.
II don't mind saying" he went on,
THAT we nave given considerable
thought to the problem. We want to
weed out the undesirable class of men
who are in the business, but it is a
big undertaking, and we are now dis
cussing the best way to go about Vt.
The evils that have grown up with the
business must go; but it Is a great task
20 overcome all the difficulties in our
way, and 1t is hard to determine the
best method of action.
1--WE don't want local option, and 1
don't see why we should join with the
temperance workers, who want to
abolish the liquor traffic entirely, in any
of their plans" he said in answer to the
reporters query. but we do want to
a.-I.,,4 .Ir,., l,,rin,rg xUifl, on1tr
clean men in it,"
A meeting Of the big brewing inter-
ests of tho country, held in New York
several days ago, was to devise a
plan to check the spread of anti
saloon legislation and sentiment all over
the country. Within the past few
years tho business of the brewers has
been cut into fine bits in the South and
West. All over the country. the brew
ers declare, the sentiment against the
saloon is spreading. and they believe
that this is largely due to the evils at
tendant upon the traffic and the per-
sonality of many saloon-lkeepers.
After the New York meeting repre-
sentatives of the big brewing interests
declared that they were prepared to
Join with the temperance forces in Sc
curing reasonable regulation of the
liquor traffic and in the suppression of
immortality incidental to the sale Of
liquor.
1t was also said that agents of the
brewers have been in consultation with
ministers and leading citizens in dis
tricts where the troublesome excise
question has been in the limelight, TO
learn their views as to the best methods
OF r%emedying conditions and preventing
n currence-and 1t was said tina the
advice of these men was acted upon
wherever it was sound.
Judge Kruger made 1t plain that the