The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-24
The Association of Indiana
Brewers Has Organized Vig-
lance Bureau to Regulate
Traffic in State.
MjNCK BREWERY WILL
BOOST THE MOVEMENT
L. E. Howe of Columbus, O.,
Who Has Had Experience in
The Work, Has Been En-
pIoyed to Handle the Bureau

Indianapolis, Nov. 24.-The brewers
of Indiana appear actually to have
started in on the work of cleaning up
the saloon business in this state.
They have declared for months that
such was their purpose, but nothing
was done to show that they intended
But an important step has been TAX
en-, and it is one which lodes i'll for
the saloon keeper that violates the
law and for the brewer that upholds
Or even cOuntenances such violation.
The Association of Indiana Brewers
has organized the Indiana Brewers
Vigilance Bureau, the purpose Of
which is to police the saloon business
in Indiana and see to it that saloon
keepers run their business as the law
says it shall or may be run. l.. r..
Howe, of Columbus, Ohio, a man who
has had several years experience in
just this kind of work. has been enl-
ployed to take charge of the vigilance
bureau, and he will devote his entire
time to it.
What Ohio Brewers Did.
Ohio has had such a bureau for sew
eral years. After the stringent liquor
license laws in that state were passed
the brewers decided that if the law
was to be enforced and If the liquor
business was to be cleaned up and put
on a decent basis they would have to
! do it themselves. So they organized
this vigilance bureau and it has been
| in existence ever since. Mr.. Howe
was one of the men connected with it..
| The Indiana bureau is ready to begin
active operations on December l, and
from that time on the saloon keeper
that violates the law or runs his place
, in a disreputable manner had better
look out.
| J. r. Johnson, the secretary of the
Association of Indiana Brewers, says
it will be the purpose of the vigil
ance bureau to regulate the saloon
business, because it is from the saloon
that the brewery gets it's business
The bureau will not undertake to deal
with the blind tiger question or the
problem of the illicit sale of liquor
This, he says, is the business of the
local authorities. But the vigilance
bureau will hunt out evidence against
saloon keepers who violate the laws
and will place this evidence before
the local authorities for action. 1,
will work with the local authorities
in this matter or with any one else
or any other organization that tries
to bring about the same result.
Staff of Field Workers.
The bureau will have a staff of field
men whose business it will be to &C
out in the state and nose around fol
evidence of law violations by saloor
keepers. 1t will keep an eye at al
times on the saloon keepers. Therc
are only twenty-five counties in the
state now in which liquor may be solo
so the brewers association believes i
will not be difficult matter for tn,
men of the vigilance bureau to cove
the ground and keep things straight
Mr.. Johnson says that it will no
make any difference what kind of bee
the law violating saloon keeper sells
The various brewers will all lool
alike to the vigilance bureau.
No crusade will be made agains
any one set of saloons. neither will
any brewery be able to induce tn,
bureau to leave its saloons alone
; Neither will there be any discrimina
ton in favor of or against the saloons
that sell beer manufactured by brew
ers who are not members of the or
|, ganization. An outside brewer will
have the same treatment that asso
citation brewers will get.
Breweries in Movement.
: The following breweries are mem
{ bers of the Association Of Indiani
r Brewers: T. NJ. Morton Brewin'
Company. of Anderson: Walter Raup
fer Brewing Company, of Columbi
City; The F. w. Cook Brewing Com
pany and the Evansville Brewini
Company. of Evansville: Berghof
Brewing Association and C. l. Cent
llivre Brewing Company, of For
WAYNE; American Brewing Company
Capital City Brewing Company. Hom
Brewing Company and the Indianapo
lis Brewing Company. Of indianapolis
!. George A. Bohrer Brewing Compan
: and Theme & Wagner Brewing Com
pany. Of Lafayette: Guenther Broth
ers, of Laporte; Columbia Brewin
Company, of Logansport; Indian
Brewing Association, OF Marion; Pt
Zorn Brewing Company. of Mishs
waka; Paul Reising Brewing Compan
of New Albany; Minck Brewing Com
, pany. of Richmond: Muessel Brewin
Company and South Bend Brewin