The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-06-09
BREWERS ASSN
HEARS REPORTS
BOARD or TRUSTEES TELLS OF
PROHIBITION FALACtES" AND
OTHER MATTERS.
QUOTES BISHOP LINES
Aaanst Unfair Legislation Which
Can Not Be Enforced-Temper
ance Has Much to Fear
From Friends.

Milwaukee, Wis. June 8.-The fea
ture of today at the meeting of tn
United States Brewers Association
was the report fthe Board OF Trus
tees which touched upon variety o
subjects, including Labor, Finance
Inebriety, Religion and Politics, etc
Following is an extract from the re
port:
prohibition Fallacies-The purpose
of the Anti Saloon League is avowedly
the total abolition of the saloon, to
gether with absolute Prohibition o
the manufacture, sale, or distribution
of any beverage which contains alec
hol. BY this prescriptiye method, tht
agents of the League would have Us
believe that the taste, and therefore
the demand. for such beverages viii
ultimately cease.
The advocates of prohibition have
been forced by the logic Of facts to !
nit that prohibition does not prohibit
But they say, neither do the crimina
laws prohibit crime. Thieving is call
ed fine art" the enterprising bur
glar still burgles. the pickpocket Is
still working overtime. But the act o
theft Is crime; the act of drinking
Intoxicating beverages Is not crime
| We don't forbid man his household
| Injuries, because of the Temptation
which they offer to burglars; we pun
ish the burglar! Moreover, all effeo
| tive laws depend for their enforce
ment upon the will of the community
| A law which governs our persona
habits can only be sustained by over
whelming public sentiment The pc
| liceman Is the servant of the people
not their forbidding autocrat! Their
are probably not ten men in a MI
lion who would condone burglary bu
| there are thousands of men who per
| lure themselves to buy a drug stor'
drink every month, In our prohibition
towns Prohibition legislation puts
premium upon law breaking. and COZ
rupts the whole machinery of gov
eminent.
| almost every function of life cal
be made vice, If 1t is improper
fused. Bigamy is a vice; shall w
therefore forbid marriage? No ma
can be a bigamist who has not bee
married at least once. Extortion J
crime: shall we therefore sto
banking? Gluttony is a vice; shall W
stop eating? Typhoid is a dire disease
must we stop drinking water? Milk
Frequently injurious; shall we Kill on
cows? There is a limit even to tn
Imost benevolent paternalism. We a
have to fight for our lives; We eac
lhave to work out our own salvation
and there are literally millions c
people who indulge habitually bu
Temporarily in alcoholic beverage
without injury to their physical @
moral welfare. No doubt there
Imuch to be learnt by studying tn
mechanism which keeps me
straight. The pathologist, the physi'
llogist and the psychologist can a
lbear testimony on this score"
The report then quotes a portion {
an article is the April issue of Nj
lClure's Magazine, on The Preventio
lof Crime" in which Prof. Hugo Mul
lsterburg says mere abstinence frol
lstimulants is no real solution OF tn
problem. The report continues:
Bishop Lines on Temperance LIE
islation.-L Legislation which is unfai
which cannot be enforced, or which
lsure to produce reaction, is unwis
1t is not strange that people who haN
suffered in one or another way fro
the abuse of strong drink. or hay
seen its i'll effects, should feel stron
lIv and be ready to do that whiC
promises restriction of abuse. b
men are needed who are at once ter
perate in speech. thoughtful wise al
right-minded, to guide public opini'
and to influence legislation. Tempe
ance, like religion, has a great deal
fear from its friends.
These words are the deliberate
lterance of Bishop Edwin S. Line
in Lenten letter to the clergy of Z
Prote slant Episcopal Church of Il
Newark, N. j., diocese. There is
question before the American pc
. pie today which is more widely d
cussed than the liquor. question, Nj
= lof clear vision and intelligence. who
. experience has taught them to
l. worldly wise are in, common agr'
Iment upon these points:
Il. That the temperate use of alC
J holic liquors is so widely spread as
i be a national custom.
so: That this generation of m
: and women is more temperate tn
; any preceding generation in our h
: TORY.
"3. That the abuse of such liquo
" while comparatively small, is new
fConoIndad on Sixth PaqaA