The Yale expositor., 1912-03-14
GOVERNOR SENDS
SPECIAL MESSAGES
WOULD PROHIBIT BREWERIES
OWING SALOONS, URGES DIRECT
VOTE ON STATE OFFICERS
SUGGESTS equal SUFFRAGE BE
PUT up FOR VOiE.
In Five Messages to Legislature He
Deals With Much Legislation
Would Curb Bonding
Company.

Gov. Osborn submitted five special
messages to the legislature Monday
Night.
In specific terms he asks the legis-
lature to pass woman's suffrage bill
and statewide primary bill, provide
for the submission OF an amendment &c
the constitution providing for the init
alive, referendum and recall; pass a
bill amending the banking laws SO as to
permit state banks to pledge their
assets to secure postal savings funds
a bin making it unlawful for brewers
or wholesale liquor dealers to own Oh
operate saloons, and bill to repeal the
charter of the Michigan bonding Com
pany, which furnishes bonds for the
saloonkeepers.
The Messages.
The messages in full are as fol-
lows:
TO the Forty-siXth Legislature of
the state of Michigan:
"Gentlemen--You are hereby au-
thorized and requested to give your
consideration to a dill or bills to
amend section two of act 313 OF the
act TO provide for the taxation, IL
censlnG and regulation OF inc pus-
mess OF MISUNDERSTANDING, selling,
keeping for sale, turnlsnIng, giving
or delivering spIrituous anu lntoNi-
eating malLs, brewed, rermented
ana vinous liquors IN this state
me purpose OF tins requested leg
islation is TO make it unlawful Tor
brewers, or those engaged IN the
brewery business or III the whole
In
troll, or To be interested directly or
indirectly in any saloon or place
where Intoxicating or alcoholic
liquors or any kinu are sold, pur-
Veycd or deiIVcrcd in Il retail man
ner. This Legislation is particular
~ aimed at Tie ugewery-owned sa-
loon.
In Michigan, and throughout the
United States, and all over the
world where excessive use or, al
cohol is curse and one of the
gravest dangers that confront man
KIND, attention is beng given TO the
necessity for lettering conditions
An Official BRUSH parliamentary
commission has reported that al
cohollc poisoning is the great cause
of their national degeHcracy The
French> government has placarded
that country with appeals to the
people, 0ttrbutlng the decline IN
the birth rate and the increase in
the death rate to widespread en-
CtSSlNe use OF dlcOnOIC beverages.
The German emperor has stated
that leadership in war and in peace
will be held by that nation whose
people use the least alcohol and has
pointed with serious emphasis 10
the dangers arising from the eN-
cessiVe use of beer IN Germany. All
Of the countries of continental Eu-
rope are alert in combating the
fearful menace. out of the degen-
eracy produced by excessive alec
holism or from the deaths from al
coholism produced by degeneracy,
and II matters not which, because
the cause and effect are so init
mately associated as 10 be indie
terminable, flow crime, misery, di-
rect and indirect private and public
burdens, political abuse, moral
breakdown. and all the influences
that make for depreciation and de-
struction OF society. The world ad-
mits the danger. How can it be
averted?
AssaiIs Brcwer-ONncd Saloon.
There may be some questions OF
human rights ana personal liberty
involved and there may be a plane
where regulation and prohibition
become supcr-sumptuary. With H.
500 inmates of Michigan state char
liable, penal and correctional insti-
tutions, and thousands more in coun-
ty houses and private sanitariums,
with crime on the increase in our
f1lr state, Win the owners Dig
breweries, through their strings OF
saloons and otherwise, mis- chievous-
ly and boldly active in endeavors
to control elections, legislation and
public officials. there is aroused in
tcrest on the part of all classes OK
citizens.
"While there may he some argu-
ment as to whether saloons shall
he permitted to exist in this state,
there is no argument against a de-
% GnlnnnG
VIGOROUSLY vicious and lawless shall
not exist. There are those who
argue and sincerely believe that the
saloon is the poor mans club. But
they have no defense for the vile
saloon which is "a combination grog-
shop, den of prostitution, resort of
robbers and gambling hell.
I'm the state of Michigan there
are. I'm all counties, 1886 saloons.
In the city of Detroit there are
1870 saloons, or one for every 500
persons. In Wayne county there
are 1852 saloons. 1t is estimated
Detroit, and more than one-half OFFS
those in the state. are brewery
owned. This number of saloons. so
disproportionate to any need that
can be shown by any person. has
been made possible because the
big brewers Of Detroit, Chicago. st.
Louis, Milwaukee and elsewhere are
In the business of starting. encour-
trolling saloons.
source of Great Danger.
examination Will show that 50
per cent OF dives are brewery
ow ned saloons. The evil participa-
ton of these big brewers in the
salCon business not only constitutes
a source of greatest danger 10 the
health, safety and morals OF society,
but IL is unfair to the independont
saloonkeepers and to the small
brewer who cannot afford TO start.
own or control a string of saloons.
The man who is thrifty and saves
enough money to go into the saloon
business, and who may try to be
decent saloonkceDer and who IL re-
fCrrcd to as such, must compete
with the fellow who. without money
or character. lis set up in business
by big brewer The brewer finds
n fash barkccper who has attrd cted
friends and who is willing to he
his man. He Is started in business.
His fixtures are owned by the
brewer; he is bound To buy his
beer of the brewer who owns him
ana at "A greater price than the In
dependent saloonkeeper pays; he Is
compelled to pay a usurious rate OF
interest upon the license money and
other investments, and In other
ways he is made the slave OF the
brewer as much as any peon ever
What Is the result? The saloon
IL more than apt 10 be located
where there is not sufficient