Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-07
TRADE HAS ITS TROUBLES.
Continued from Page six,

l1ll.
The other two great branches of the
| liquor trade-the National Brewers. the
National DistilIers and the Wholesale
| Dealers Associatlon-ewould undoubtedly
| assist While the brewers and distillers
require their national bodies to govern
| their own local matters. yet in many
cases their interests IRE Identical with
| ours, and provisions should be made
whereby we can cooperate as one great
army.-Sec. Halle National Wholesale
Liquor Dealers Association, Chicago,
June 1911.
As one result of the American occupan-
cy of Manila the liquor business has
reached enterprisng proportions and Is
now considered as one of the leading.
as well as one of the respectable kinds of
business.-Wine and Spirit News, New
York city.
License Chloroforns the Public Con-
science.
The moment is epportune for IS to offer
the two solutions which can be found
only in license. regulation and control
NJ. F. Westhefmer. Pres. National Whole
sale Liquor Dealers Association, 18th
Annual Convention, Chicago, June 1911.
1t is of the highest Importance. in fixing
the rank of the industry, that the cen
sus of the United States should show
that, next to flour and grist mill pro-
ducts liquors are the most important of
the group of vegetable products.-Levi
Cooke, General Counsel Of tile National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association,
Chicago June, 1911.
It cannot be denied that an immense
revenue will accrue 10 the State. making
the liquor business of Ohio Indispensable
to the state. Il will be more difficult to
assah the traffie from a legislative stand
point in the future.-Wine & Spirit News,
Columbus, o.:
Does not government, which collects
over "A per cent. of its total revenue
from one industry. owe that industry
protection from eonfscation, or at least
compensation, when under state laws
confiseation. .results?-M. +. Westheimer.
Pres. Natiohel Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Association, June, 1911.
Money is measure of value. and the
liquor industry Of the United states,
measured moi by the wealth which it has
accumulated, but by the river OF gold
which 1t annually turns, by means of its
invested capital, into the treasury of the
United states, may point otis place in
the finaneesaof this country and justify
its functions and its eXistence.-Leyi
Cooke, General Counsel National Whole
sale Liquor Dealers Association, Chica-
go, June, 1911
Prohibition Most Opposed Restriction.
our brewers are leading in the fight
against prohibition Liberty diquor
journaD, san Antonio. Texas. June, 1911
Maine nears the time when it will add
its record to the undoing of the would
be dietatorT -Llberal Advocate, Column
bus june, @, 1911.
We must endeaVor To educate the
statutory ptu.#bition creates, so as to
build up kehtrnent for license. regula-
ton and controL-M. F. Westheimer, Ex-
Pres. Nat Wholesale Liquor Dealers,
Association, June. 1911.
Constitutional prohibition is mock
cry. elisat and sham. Maine has been
stultified by it. disgraeed By 1t. lowered
in the moral scale by it-Liberal Advo=
cate diquor journap Columbus. o. June
n. 1871.
The general public is convinced that
prohibition is impractical and that the
results from it are worse than the
abuse of license-A. J. Sunstein,
Chairman Executive Committee. Ma
tional Wholesale Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation. June, 1911.
Prohibitionists belong to that same
class rs those fanatics who used to be-
neve in witches and who used to draw
the line for religious belief They have
been the bane Of every country and have
caused more crime and misery than all
the liquors that were ever brewed or
distiled-The Patriot Qiquor Journal.
Free Rum Preferred. But Local Option