The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-02

+ Second.--The brewer is charge,
, with being in politics and using po
+ 'iticaI power for the purpose of in
ftuencing legislation, paralyZing exec
rive action and protecting the dis
,orderly saloon. Such statements art
grossly exaggerated. Rather it /,
true that the existence of disorder
" saloons is in many eases the work
! lof certain class of politicians who
keep them alive for their own pur-
tposes and in opposition to the wishes
of the brewers With suitable law
iprorerly inforced and backed by
healthy public sentiment, such disor-
lderly saloons could be eXterminated
land not only the community purified
iof the Objectionable places, but the
lbrewing trade freed of an incubus
(which 1t Is now struggling to shake
foff without such assistance No one
lworl hail such nmation with
Igreater satisfaction than the brewer.
| If the brewers have been driven
finto politics. 1t is due to the intemp-
crate attacks unon them along po-
I'itical lines. and we ask the public to
hear in mind that self-preservation Is
/ n very elementary instinct. Whenev
era spirit of genuine inquiry and RAJ.
tional betterment shall take the
! place of needless persecution aiming
, not at Improvement, but at the exter-
minauon of our busine sand that
is the object Of both the Prohibition
and the anti-saloon movements, the
protestanons of the anti-saloon men
70 the contrary notwith: tandng-the
brewers will welcome it sympathetic
Tally and bring to all efforts at trpe
progress the knowledge acquired
from their pracaical acquaintance
fwith matters. and will. as brewers.
elally refrain from participation in
politics.
THE Brewers are ready to be TAX
en- at their word. Already in many
'7'laee, they are engaged in active
work for the publication of the re-
tail trade. In some places this is be-
ing done on their own initiative with
The help of the constituted authori-
ties, in other cases, they are cooper
sTing while the authorities and GER
tan volunteer organizations are lead
ir7E again. they are doing it in spite
of, the politicians and against the
wishes of the so-called reformers.
They are trying to do what is really !
and properly the work Of the official |
relS'e eDtativeS OF the people.
While rot denying certain |
of Needless competition |
which our business has shared with |
many other lines-the lealization of |
and unlooked-for con e.
Guences having come nome to US on
ly within recent times-we turn with
confinderce to the fair-minded Amer |
lean public and ask it. in view of /
many practical instances of our sin
certify given in the face of great diff
entities, 10 consider the statements |
above made and to accept our assur-
ance that the Objectionable features
of the retail liquor traffic do not rest
upon, and ore not backed, either byI
the co nmercial interest or by anyf
supposed political power of the brew
ers. but that the elimination Of such
objectio rable features is most ear.
nestly desired by our trade, that VIC
will lend our fullest cooperation to-
wards their extinction. and that we
ials and the people in general to that
end.
Reform of the Saloon.
The law-maker, the magistrate the |
pplice authorities. the landlord. the |
bonding companies, and the licensing
authorities must share the odium
which rests upon the saloon and its
hackers, for the evils which have
arisen. But whoever may be respon-
sible, the plain fact is that the sa-
loon business is Ieopardized by its
black sheep. and as matter of en-
Heightened sef-int crest. we must pro
ceeh to find remedy.
y Experience proves that all cite
have saloons. If the saloon is not lie.
gabzed, an illegal substitute appears
in the form of "speak-easies," drug
stores and the like. AS even the An.
ti-Saloon League in its Blue Book con-
cedes that the use of intoxicating
liquors cannot well be reached by i
law. and the most rabid Prohibition
States have not yet attempted to leg.
islate against the use of liquor.
there must and will be agencies to
supply the demand. Therefore we
stand for open legalized saloons as
against the hidden dives or speak.
easles.' for the decently conducted |,
saloon under proper law and regula.
tions, as against the secret drinking
which demoralizes the home: we Il
stand against the tricks and evasions.
the manifold evils of Prohibition, Il