Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-08
BREWERS OPTIMISTIC
NATIONAL CONVENTION TOLD OF
INCREASED CONSUMPTION
OF BEER.
COMMITTEE"
REPORTS ON BUSINESS
Profess to See Recession Of Prohibition
Wave, With More Beer Drank While
at Its Height-SaIe Of Beverage In
creases Faster Than PopuIation-Ar-
sued That Drunkenness is on the
Decrease.

Decrease.
Washington, June S.-The vigilance
ers Association. in annual conven-
ton here, believes that the year just
ended marked the highest and the be-
ginning of the recession of the wave of
prohibition, and SO reported today.
In Alabamas Reputation Of a pro-
hibition amendment to the state con-
stitution the brewers see great hope Of
the license principle being applied in
territories now totally dry and the
committee views with satisfaction the
districts which have swung out of the
dry column.
A resume of conditions thru the
states, presented to the convention by
the committee, charges in effect that
prohibition in many states prohibited
nothing at all
For Georgia the committee reported:
This state is legally dry but actually
as moist as the needs of the people re-
filling has trebled in the state and the
moonshiner now gets five dollars gal
lon for the stuff he used to sell for
dollar"
In Oklahoma, the committee declar-
ed, there We're three times as many
arrests and violations since the state
had gone dry as there were when it
was licensed territory.
,o1r, Ia too ta6
gives unn1istakable signs that it has
no use for statewide prohibition, while
Maine. the parent of prohibition. is
still going on in the old way giving
forth no fruits of repentance"
A condition which the committee de-
scribed as alarming was reported as
existing in South Carolina. Never has
Illicit whiskey distilling there been so
popular as the last year" said the COM
mittee Revenue officers records
show more than 200 Illicit distilleries
destroyed and more than 200 900 gall
Ions, of whisky and low wines. includ-
ing white Ticker confiscated." In
Greenville county, in a month. 81 stills
were confiscated the report asserts.
Reports from other states, the COM
rnittee told the convention, gave hope
lndC the NlRH llQe OIL was
over.
Sale Of Beer Increased.
While the prohibition movement has
ridden at high tide. the sale of beer
has increased 90,000,000 gallons and the
sale of spirits has bounded upward H.
100000 gallons. In these ninety mil
lion gallons of beer were nearly 4,o0o,-
900 gallons of pure alcohol.
Such was the report OF the board Of
trustees to the United States Brewers
Association in convention here today.
The volume of business Of the year
Just ended. the trustees believe will
exceed 1908. which was the banner
year for the brewing industry in this
country.
The poor prohibitionist is up against
a hopeless fight on the natural law Of
fermentation, the board of trustees be-
lieves. To quote the report:
1.-The whole vegetable world is in a
conspiracy against the prohibitionist.
The bees become intoxicated with the
distillation of the honeysuckle: the
wasps grow dizzy in the drowsy clover
patch and even the ants Wobble in their
walk after they have Toasted upon the
over ripe fruit fallen from the tree,
which has started natural fermenta-
ton
Paradoxes Of Drunk Question.
And all the increases in the volume
of the brewing industry have been
made in the face OF the fact that 49,
100000 inha bitants of the United States
are said to live in dry territory. In
these gains the brewers see signs Of
hope that the prohibition m ovement has
touched its highest spot and is now on
the wane.
Zone cannot study the drunk ques-
ton without being puzzled by its para
doxes," says the report. TT is an I'M
questioned fact that the people of the
United States are steadily becoming
more temperate and yet the consump-
ton of alcohol incre asses just as stead
lily as the growth of temperance. Not
only is the volume of the sale of alco-
holic beverages becoming larger but
the per capita consumption is increas-
ing. =
What does THIS mean? Does it
not indicate that while such beverages
are coming into more common use the
people are learning to use them more
intelligently? The old idea that total
abstinence is the only road to safety.
is being replaced by the new idea of
modera lion both in eating and in
drinking, by that Of self control"
Boutell Condemns Prohibition.
Addressing the United Brewers As
ISOLATION today Representative Boutell,
of Illinois, attacked prohibition. He
declared that prohibition did not pro-
hibit: that when the open sale of mild
beverages is forbidden surreptitious
sales of strong spirits are greatly in
creased: that there is an appalling in
crease, in prohibition states, in the de-
mand for patent medicines, tonics and
narcotics and drugs. BoutelI argued
against prohibition and declared that
in It's place genuine temperance was
advancing rapidly.
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