The Detroit times., 1909-06-01
MILWAUKEE, HAS WHAT
DETROIT is THINKING ABOUT
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clg industries a business that Is just
AT the threshold of its marvellous pos
sibiltios, upon which IL has the right
to build hopes OF Il splendid material
future. Automobiles are a growing
public necessity. Milwaukee has for
one OF the basic producers OF Its great
wealth and attractiveness, an industry
that Is shrinking az fast as the making
OF motor cars is expanding. Say what
We will about the merits OF the move
ment, the justice OF the onslaught
upon the traffic, the brewing business
IN Milwaukee is being hit hard by the
growing antagonism among even I'D
eral and conservative folks against In
temperance. 1t is now on basis OF
half time. OF the, finest plants In the
world operated only in sections. IL Is
not that Milwaukee has revised It's
ideas of indulgence so much; there are
nc surface signs that Its liberalism is
lessening, OF that that liberalism Is
attended by any shocking exhibitions
OF drunkenness and depravity. Mil
waukee still seems to be standing
insistence that beer garden" is not
paradoxical term There the sturdy,
ample-souled German citizen, by the
reasonableness OF his social instincts,
seems 20 uphold the contention that
there is nothing necessarily antagonis-
tic between garden (purity, grace and
beauty and the brew OF Gambrinus.
But II is the wave or local prohibl-
ton surging quite UP to Wisconsin,
shores that Is menacing Milwaukee's
source OF wealth; for every smaller
brewery driven from its local field,
means more competition in the gen.
eral field.
Something was said in the course of
the interchange of pleasantries at the
Palm Garden-a distinctively Milwau-
keean institution where the visitors
were doing their best to exemplify
the adage, when you are with the
Milwaukeeans, drink what the Mil
waukeeans brew" about Detroit
being behind Milwaukee in river
front development. Yet there may
still be heard in the great brew
ing city tributes to the stunning
water front" which Michigan put up
In Milwaukee in the recent debate in
the person OF President Dickie. Of
Albion college, who grappled with
Mayor Rose on the question OF out
having the liquor traffic. They say
that the Michigan abolitionist an
nounced that he was going TO say
disagreeable thingg, and that he lived
quite up to the advance notices. or
course the disputants didn't settle
IL there, nor at Chicago few days
later; but II is significant that even
in Milwaukee the great issue has
reached the academic stage of discus
sion.
Milwaukee. Ike Detroit, sits upon
the eastward-looking shore. its con-
temptations tranquilized by the I'M
1ecked blue OF lake and strait. Its
windows are open toward the east,
where the star Of deliverance first
shonC and where the star OF empire
started on it's weetward-setting course.
II these fair ports that keep vigil ty
the shimmering waters are forced 10
heed the portents in the commercial
armament and roadjust their Ideas to
meet tho demands OF an awakened
public conscience, no one doubts their
ability to meet the situation bravely.
Milwaukee has done and Is doing 40
many things well. II will quickly 81.
rect the cunning of her right hand 20
replace beer or beer has to go) with
something that. in the public esti-
nation, shall be without spot or biem-
fish or wrinkle. or any such thing.
The calls our good ship made at
Michigan ports served TO intensity In
every instance the pride of the voy-
ayers in their own glorious peninsulas.
Everywhere we found fair lake
Ravens living quite up to the oppor-
tunitiee of their location and doing
credit 10 the state wbD'e riches pour
through their gates for distant ports.
At each stop there was some sign of