The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-09
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE GIVES
RESUME OF THE YEAR
PAST.
REPUTATION
Gives Brewers Hope That License
Principle viii Soon Be Applied
in Territories Now
Totally Dry.

Washington, June S.-The vigilance
committee of the United Brewers As
sociation, in annual convention here,
believes that the year just ended
marked the height and the beginning
of the recession of the wave of prohi
btion, and so reported today.
In Alabama's Reputation Of a pro-
hibition amendment to the states
constitution the brewers sIh great
hope of the license principle being
applied in territories now totally dry
and the committee views with salts
faction the districts which have
swung out OF the dry column.
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 11,0000 600 gallons. In these
ninety million gallons Of beer were
nearly 1900, gallons of pure alcohol,
Such was the report of the board
of trustees to the United States Brew
ers Association in convention here to-
day. The volume Of business of tne
year just ended, the trustees believe,
win exceed 1908 which was the ban
ncr 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
|lieyes. To quote the report:
"The whole vegetable world is in
a conspiracy against the prohibition.
ist. The bees become intoxicated with
the distillation of the honey suckle;
the wasrs grow dizzy in the drowsy
clover patch and even the ants woD-
bic in their walk after they have feast
ed upon the ever ripe fruit fallen from
the tree, which has started natural
fermentation.
An all the increases in the volume
lf the brewing industry have been
made in the fact of the fact that A.,
100000 inhabitants of the United
States are said to live in dry terri.
tory. In these gains the brewers see
signs of hope that the prohibition
movement has touched its highest
spot and is now on the wane
One cannot study the drink qucs-
tion without being puzzled by its para
.doxes," says the report. 1t is an un
questioned fact that the people of the
United States are steadily becoming
more temperate and yet the consump.
tion Of alcohol increases just as
steadily as the growth of temperance
Not only is the volume of the sale OF
alcoholic beverages becoming larger
but the per capita consumption is i
creasing.
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
/ intellgently? The old idea that totaN
abstinence is the only road to safety
is being replaced by the new idea OF
moderation both in eating and in
+, drinking, by that of self control
Strong argument for the restora-
| tion of the army canteen was made
in the report of the publication com
mittee, The editorial expressions OF
| many newspapers, magazines and
other publications favoring license
were presented to the convention.
The restoration of the army can
teen. the committee declared, was
demanded louder than ever, not alone
! by the most intelligent organs of pub
lie opinion but by army officers who
had witnessed the results of its sup
preston
/ The last report of the secretary OF
war is quoted as saying the abolition
Of beer halls has not made for so
briefly and religious observance among
the veterans Basing its statement
upon the secretary Of wars report
the committee declared to the conven
ton that in 1909 there were 80 pei
cent more trials for drunkenness II
the soldiers homes than in 1906 wher
/ beer halls prevailed