Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-11
BREWERS FAVOR
RESTRICTIONS
PASS RESOLUTIONS IN CAUSE
OF TEMPERANCE
DO NOT coUNTENANcE DISoR-
Derby SALOONS
Say They viii Gladly Withdraw from
Politics When Measures for Inn
provenent Instead of Exter-
minatlon Are Used
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June t0.-The
promotion of temperance in the case of
fermented beverages, the meaning of
temperance being neither the abuse nor
disuse, Is favored by the United States
Brewers association In a lengthy set of
principles which the organization
adopted at it's closing session today.
They also favor the elimination OF
the Objectionable features of the retail
liquor traffic and pledge their fullest CO.
operation toward their suppression.
The brewers also declare that it is a
mistake to believe that the commercial
interests of the brewer stand back of
the excessive multiplication of saloons
or any of the unlawful or improper
practices of the saloonkeepers. When
ever a spirit of genuine inquiry and
rational betterment shall take the place
of needless persecution aiming not at
improvement but at the determination
of their business the brewers will well
come and will gladly refrain from par
ticipating in politics. The platform con-
tinues in part:
1--WE believe that temperate use of
beer promotes health and happiness,
which are the underlying conditions
of morality and social order. and in this
belief we are supported by the vast pre-
ponderance of educated as we'll as pop
Consistent with this belief, we favor
the passage and enforcement of laws
for the regulation of the drink traffic
and for keeping such traffic free from
unlawful and improper accessories, and
we earnestly desire such improvement
in the drink habits of the people as is
wisest for the advance of temperance,
together with the spread of enlighten-
ment as to the proper functions of, drink
whereby the individual may be able to
regulate his habits according to the re-
quirements of wholesome living.
"The brewer is charged with being IN
politics and using political power to in
fiuence legislation, paralyzing executive
action and protecting the disorderly
saloon. Such statements are grossly
exaggerated and highly colored. Rather
it Is true that the existence of disor-
derly saloons is in many cases the work
of certain classes of politicians who
keep them alive for their own purposes
against the wishes of the brewers. With
suitable laws properly enforced and
backed by healthy public sentiment,
such disorderly saloons could be ex-
terminated and not only the community
purified of such Objectionable places
but the brewing trade freed of an in
cubus which 1t is now struggling to
shake off"
The platform says If the brewers have
been driven into politics 1t is due to
the intemperate attacks upon them
along political lines, and in closing it
proceeds: 1--WE turn with confidence
to the fair-minded American public and
ask it, in view of many political in
stances of our sincerity given in the
face of great difficulty, to consider the
statements above made"
A letter from j. Topham Richardson
of the English brewers was read, in
which he stated that many churchmen
and other prominent people in England
are opposed to the efforts to prohibit
the liquor traffic.