Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-27
LIQUOR WAR IS COMING ON.

LIQUOR WAR
 IS COMING ON. - e
 According to reports the brewers and distillers of'-the country are pre- pairing for desperate fight of, resist ance against those who are fighting for the abolition of the liquor traffic in this country. The great strength of the opposition to the retail liquor traffic in this country is not to be found among those who are in favor of prohibition, but among those who object to the manner of conducting the liquor business. When those who are in he liquor business will see that their places of business are not made obnoxious by those who are inclined to become overindulgent and are not , made places where young men and boys may engage in drunken orgies, much of the opposition to saloons will disappear. The inauguration of a gen eral fight by the brewers and distillers against those who are opposing the manner in which the liquor traffic is being conducted by majority of the saloon Keepers will only mean the earlier coming of the day when such thing as an open saloon in this country will be thing of the past. Concerning the approaching war be tween those who uphold the saloons and those who oppose them, the Los Angeles Herald points out the proba- ble result of the titanic struggle which seems to be approaching.
 "A vast national federation is being formed with the avowed object Of giv- ing battle to prohibition and to all al lied and sympathetic movements that tend to forbid or restrict the liquor traffic. The executive headquarters of the federation will be in Chicago. and it will be composed of every associa-I ton connected directly or indirectly with the liquor trades The fedora ton will conduct business through an executive committee, which win be made up of representatives of brew CTS and maltsters' associations. re- tailers and wholesalers associations, manufacturers and dealers clubs, lib- erty leagues of salesmen and all as sociations connected with the allied liquor trades.
 The nature of the membership in- dicates that there will be practical ly exhaustless treasury. Part of the money subscribed will be used for the formation of publicity bureaus, which will send out masses of booklets, leaf lets, statistics and arguments of all kinds in support of liquor. In fact, in opposition to the temperance or anti saloon crusade, gigantic liquor cru sade is planned and financed
 Not content with operating through mediums and means of publicity, the federation will go into politics. The nomination and election of congress- men and state legislators is a matter to which the liquor trades, under the new scheme of federated action, will pay attention. It is explained that the liquor men are entering politics with reluctance, but that they are com pelled to take this field of activity "in seIf-defense." Politicians will be chary of their dealings with the org anized liquor interests. That Is a safe proposition to make. Ihey nave much more to fear from the wrath of the fathers and mothers of the fami- lies of the United States than from any booze organization Another as- sertion that we will dare to venture is that the planned organization and aggressive crusade of the allied liq- nor interests will give a greater i'm petus and a more formidable strength to the anti]liquor cause than anything that has happened since it came into mems minds to impose restrictions and sometimes bans on a traffic that seemed, according to an oyerwhelm-