The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-08-03
Liquor Dealers of the State
Adopt a Declaration
Of Principles
ASK BREWERS TO COOPERATE
Liquor Will Not be Sold to Minors
and Loafng Will Not be Allowed
in the Saloons in the Future-No
Christmas Presents for Customers.

The saloon IN Wisconsin is to be
placed on a higher plane, and the up
lift movement is among the saloon
keepers.
Beer kegs and whiskey kegs no
longer will adorn the premises, there
will be no loafng and patrons will be
selected with more care if declara
ton of principles adopted at the clos
ing session of the Wisconsin State Lii
quor Dealers Protective association at
Ashland is lived up to-.
One other thing There will be no
mere Christmas presents for customers.
The officers are pledged to see that The
new order Of things is carried out.
The declarations Of principles, which
affect 1890 members in the state, are
in line with those adopted at the ma
tional convention of brewers held in
Milwaukee in 1908.
They are as follows:
A declaration that the liquor business
is an honorable, legitimate and neces
sary form of business activity, and is
conducted by high minded, self respect
ing citizens when not restricted by 10
cal enactments. A protest against the
imposition Of progressive or restrictive
regulations and taxation.
A plea for the cooperation of all
branches Of the liquor business, for
the elimination of any actual condi
ton from which the business suffers
A protest against continued agitation
to harass the liquor interests
A declaration that prohibition and To-
cal option are one, and both failures.
Prohibition in any form tends to the
establishment of direct taxation, the
Illicit sale of liquor, the abridgement
Of liberty, discrimination against the
poor, and in favor of the rich, the cur
tailment OF revenues for schools and
other places.
The nti-Saloon league is menace
to good government, the quietude of
communities and vested property rights
and exists for no other purpose than to
provide occupation and revenue for the
members Of close corporation, by the
process of perpetual agitation. Local
option is confscatory of property rights
without the presentation of any plan
of compensation or the substitution Of
revenues to offset what are proposed to
be destroyed.
Asks the cooperation Of the brewers,
in the effort to weed out dealers who
violate the law.
The sale Of liquor to minors and
habitual drunkards is deprecated but
there should be law requiring writ
ten notices to the saloon keeper in the
case of habitual drunkards.
Advocates the revocation of the Ii
cense of any saloon keeper who uses
immoral women to promote the sale of
his goods, and also opposing the sale
of liquor in immoral resorts.
Opposition to all trusts, pools, and
Illegal combinations. All corporations
should be kept under strict supervision
by the state and nation.
Urging the passage Of limitation
ordinances in every city, town and
village of Wisconsin.
A protest against breweries and
manufacturers sending out to private
individuals, price lists, as tending to
make the individual believe that he can
get liquor cheaper where no licensed
saloon exists. The names of the con-
Germs will be made known, in order
that they not be patronized in their
attempts to get trade, by "aiding the
cause of prohibition"
Recommending all members to pur-
chase union made supplies only.
Recommending the passage of a law
abolishing the present license granted
to bottled beer drivers, compelling
them to secure regular retail licenses.
An Endorsement of the work of the
German Alliance societies.
The duties of retail liquor dealers
are to obey all ordinances, not to sell
to minors, inebriates, or habitual drunk
ards, or to women over the bar ITO dis
continue the unnecessary display of
beer kegs and Whiskey kegs ,diseon-
tinue the giving of Christmas presents
to customers, so conduct the saloon as
to make your neighbor feel that it IS
a necessity and not hindrance com
pei employees to conduct themselves
properly and never appear under the in
fuence Of liquor; limit the sale Of beer
in buckets to residents Of the imme
didate neighborhood, and not to sell in
a bucket to any promiscuous persons to
be drank on the streets.
Prevent disorderly language in the
saloon, as well as loafng.