Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-09-22
The Boston Herald Waging
Fierce Battle on the Brewers.

An lubCiOSlinS SOh1Oob 10 nv"
going on in Massachusetts be-
tween the Boston Herald, one of
New England's leading news
papers, and the brewers, who UNI
til recently have used the Herald as
an advertising medium.
1t all came about through the
enactment by the Massachusetts,
legislature of what is known as
the Bar and Bottle law, which law
will become effective the first of
May, 1911. Under the license laws
of Massachusetts, licenses for
beverage purposes may be issued
in two general classes. One class
permits the sale over the bar for
drinking on the premises, the
other permits the sale in bottles
for carrying away or not to be
drunk on the premises.
AS a rule, the liquor dealer takes
out both licenses and after selling
over the bar until closing hour he
advises his customers to purchase
a bottle of liquor to take away.
AS a result the debauch which be-
gins at the bar is continued in the
home or elsewhere.
The new law is designed to sep
arate the two classes of licenses at
the same place. The person who
takes out a bar license will not
under the new law be permitted to
take out a bottle license, and the
law works the other way also.
After the battle in the Legislature
which resulted in the enactment
OF this law came JUNIORS of aggres-
sive action on the part of the
liquor men to defeat those sem
ators and representatives who
voted for the measure. At this
time, the Boston Herald took a hand
in the fight against the brewers
and charged them with attempting
to punish the paper because Of it's
advocacy of the Bar and Bottle
bill. At the same time the Herald
devoted several columns to point
ed truths about the methods of
control exercised by the brewers
over the saloons. This fight the
Herald has kept up until it has
stirred not only old Boston and
Massachusetts, but all of New
England.
The brewers for years have been
sending broadcast stories of their
purpose to eliminate those OBJ
lectionable features from the sa-
loon business which have done so
much to produce the great upris-
ings for no-license. The on
slaught made by the Herald shows
that even while setting forth the
methods of their reform they have
have been acting improperly in
elections, the appointment OF
License officials, the distribution
OF licenses and in attempting to
subsidize newspapers.
The Herald also shows that eighty
per cent. of the saloons of Boston
are controlled by a very few brew.
ers by mean of mortgages upon
the stock OF the saloons. 1t also
shows that the brewers have gone
into town politics, exerting the
same improper influence, and thus
the fight impresses the public
with necessity for action in check
ing the power of brewing corpora.
tons.
The forceful fight made by tht
Herald is of service to the cause o.
temperance in general. The Her.
alt is " no means considered {
radical temperance paper; in fact
its attitude has always been ont
OF such extreme l~iberality that BY
many temperance people it was
considered a liquor organ. Tha.
IL is being boycotted by the liquor
interests because of it's stand OF
the Bar and Bottle bill and because
1t is telling some great truths abou
the methods employed by tn,
liquor men indicates that tn,
brewers insert and pay for ad,
vertising, not solely for the pub.
Lefty desired, but that they ma,
be immune from the publication
OF adverse news or editorial criti
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