The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-06-13
BREWERS meet TO
Plan WAR ON DRYS
CONFLICT AGAINST PROHIBITION
Is INAUGURATED AT MIL,
WAUkEE SESSION,
MAYOR ROSE GIVES
AN OBJECT LESSON
In Welcoming Producers Of Thirst
Quenchlng Beverages, City Execu.
tive Sounds keynote-JuIius Lieb-
man Replies to Enemies of Saloon.

milwaukee, June lU.-WnaL 10
regarded as the most important con-
vention in the history of the brewing
interests of the country opened Tues
day when the members of the United
States Brewers association met in the
Terminal building In this city. It is
the forty.eighth annual meeting. Dur
ing the convention the prohibition
question is expected to be discussed
from every standpoint.
Mayor David 8. Rose of Milwaukee,
who has started a war against the dive
saloons in Milwaukee, made an ad-
dress of welcome and in the course
Of his remarks referred to the war
fare being made against an saloons
which do not come within the decent
class. The mayor and chief of police
of Milwaukee in petition to the COM
mon council have placed the ban on
about so saloons OF the class consid-
cred as being "low" and recommended
that no license be granted to those
contained in the list. The step taken
by Milwaukee, executive is believed
to be in line with the policy OF the
brewers association of the country.
Rose Welcomes Brewers.
Mayor Rose said that Milwaukee
was the ''home of personal liberty"
He appreciated the fact that q great
wave of sentiment tn favor Of prohi-
bitton was sweeping over the country
and said that too many good men
are being carried away by the con-
sideration Of that sentiment and that
they are committing an onslaught
against great interests and vested
rights. He did not believe in prohibit
ton, but believed sincerely that pro-
hibition was un-American. Instead of
prohibition accomplishing good re-
suits. which the sensationalists and
radicals of the country hope to
achieve from 1t, it would have just the
opposite effect, he said
There are all kinds Of politics In
Milwaukee" continued the mayor,
"but the worst kind is the politics that
we meet from the pulpit, and much
disturbance is caused BY men who
preach one thing and practice an.
other"
President LIebmann's Address.
President Julius Lehman Of the
association followed with his annual
address, in which he referred to the
regulation of the saloon and advocated
the spreading of the conviction that
the brewing industry stands for tenn.
perance in the best sense Of the word.
He said:
I'm spite Of the fact that our beer
10 universally pure and that the lead
ing psychologists are so thoroughly
agreed as to its food value, the brewer
finds himself held up to obloquy and
scorn. and in many states his business
10 in danger of confiscation. What is
the cause of this clamor? It is, we
believe, the fact that few Of the men
and women who preach prohibition
have any frsthand knowledge of the
saloons They do not enter them,
even for purposes Of observation, and
they certainly do not know that by far
the large majority of saloons are de-
cent and respectable and do not toler.
ate drunkenness or disorder.
1T is of the utmost Importance that
the saloonkeeper should respect the
laws, but the constant injustice meted
out to him under the guise OF laws
is q force which tends to undermine
this respect"