The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-18
BREWERS WOULD
ELEVATE SALOONS
United States Brewers Association
Plan to Drive the Dives Out Of Bus
mess to Offset Temperance Wave.
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mess to Offset Temperance Wave.
Milwaukee, Wis, IS June-As
result OF the temperance wave that
IS now sweeping over the country
the United States Brewers Asso-
citation. which began its annual
convention here today, will seek
to secure the adoption of plans
that will drive the dives and low
groggeries out of business. Brew
ers who are here from all over the
land agree that such action is
necessary to protect the legitimate
liquor dealers and to prevent the
spread of the dry" sentiment to
sections yet unaffected.
One Of the plans under consider
alton is that recently adopted in
Cincinnati and which has met with
much success.
In Cincinnati several leading
brewers have been sworn in as pro-
baton officers of the juvenile court
of that city and are taking part in
prosecuting every case of liquor
selling to minors and endeavor to
revoke the leases as we'll as liCen-
ses Of those who have violated the
law.
As the brewers own large per
centage of the property in which
saloons are run, their power is
considerable.
They also employ secret agents
to make Investigations, and ifthey
find saloons not being conducted
in accordance with the law, they
put them out of business.
In small way the crusades
against dive saloons have already
been begun by the brewers in var
ious other parts of the country,
but the plan is to extend this
movement al d during the next
year many undesirable saloon men
will be driven out of business.
The spirit Of inquiry, which has
been started by the anti-saloon
agitation has brought the reputa-
bic saloon men throughout the
country to realize that their worst
enemies are within their own
ranks. For some years efforts
have been made here and there to
rid the saloon business of its dis
orderly and w-defying element.
In Massachusetts, this has been
pretty thoroughly accomplished by
wise legislation. In other states
the laws themselves have invited
and stimulated over-competition,
which has proved disastrous to
the morals of the business.
The Texas brewers two years
ago employed their own lawyers
and secured their own evidence
and forced the hands of the police
and prosecutors and have rid the
state of 1000 gambling and other
| joints which were annexes to the
saloons. The brewers Of the board
of trade of New York have now
undertaken to do the same thing
in cooperation with the Commit
tee of Fourteen organized to reg
ulate the Raines hotel law eviD
and the bonding companies which
bond the licenses. AS a result of
this arrangement it is expected
that $50 disorderly places will be
put out Of business through their
inability to obtain new licenses.
The Buffalo brewers have al
ready done the same thing, and it
IS expected that similar resolutions
will follow in Rochester, Syracuse
and other up state cities.
The West Virginia Brewers AS
ISOLATION has sent circular letter
to liquor dealers, insisting upon
their rigid compliance with the
law in every particular. The New
Jersey brewers passed resolutions
to the same effect few months
ago, and in Ohio brewers have
taken similar action.
The Minnesota brewers are also
in line, and the Milwaukee brew
ers are now taking the matter up.
1t is expected that a wholesale
housekeeping will take place in
the retail liquor trade in every city
of Importance.