Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-17
LIQUOR MEN IN
OHIO ARE ALERT
EnpM unu AMnE pIIpEAII Tn
OPPOSE LAWLESSNESS
ENDEAVoR TO MAKE SALOON
BUSINESS REPUTABLE
Brewers and DlstIlIers Unite to See
That Statutes Relative to Sale
of lntoxicants Are En-
forced RigdlIy

LOUISVILLE, KY, June 14-The
National Model License league has
Investigated conditions in Ohio in con-
nection with the liquor business and
has received a report from A. H.
Woodson, head Of its educational bu-
reau. The report says in part:
The distillers, brewers and whole
salers of Ohio assure me that they are
unanimous in the determination to
put the laWbreakers out of the liquor
business in their state. Their view of
the situation is that it is business sui
eide to permit infractions of the law.
1.-THE liquor interests have estab-
lished a vigilance bureau and have put
out twenty sleuths to search for viola
tions of the law. They are gathering
evidence all over the state and in sew
eral instances, notably in Dayton and
Cincinnati, have forced lawbreakers
out of business. In some cases they
have found that the local authorities
oppose the prosecution of offenders,
and in such cases they present their
evidence to the grand juries and en-
ploy counsel in the prosecution. Off
ciai prosecutors, if so inclined, can
hamper the work in some cases, but in
the more fragrant cases dare not act
the traitor to the state in open court.
Embodied in the Dean law, a law
drawn by the liquor interests and sue
cessfully supported by them in the
legislature, are the following regula-
lions:
80 No man who is not an American
citizen shall conduct a saloon.
"' A man who has been convicted of
a felony shall not conduct a saloon.
"A saloonkeeper shall not sell to
minors or intoxicated persons.
"' No gambling shall be allowed in
a saloon.
80 No improper females shall be per-
mitted upon the premises of a saloon.
"' No lewd or improper pictures shall
be exposed in saloon
Supported BY Business Men
"Percy Andreae, president of the
Ohio Brewers association, and Morris
Westheimer. president of the Ohio
Wine and Spirit association, have the
cooperation of the Personal Liberty
league, an immense organization of
business men outside of the beverages
industry. These men take the position
that the prohibition movement would
amount to nothing IL it were not for
the adverse public sentiment engen-
dered by a few lawbreakers.
az It is a plain business proposition
sand Mr. Andreae, laWbreaking hurts
our interests and we intend to put the
lawbrealkers out of business
" The Dean law is the mos. drastic
passed in any state for the regulation
Of the saloon. 1t provides that any
violation of its provisions must result
in the saloonkeeper FORGETTING perma-
nently the privilege of selling liquor
legally in Ohio.
1.-THE Ohio Brewers association and
the Ohio Wine and Spirit association
have sent a poster circular to every
saloonkeeper warning him as to the
provisions of the law and asking him
to report violations of the law by any
of his competitors. The promise is
made that the places of lawbreakers
shall be abated as public nuisances.
'oThere is a widespread public i'm
preston that Ohio has a prohibition
clause in her constitution. The impress
sion is, of course, erroneous, but the
error is due to a clause that pro-
vides that Ohio shall not license the
retailing of liquors. However, the con-
stitution provides for permitting the