The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-06-27
W. c. !. U. NQIES

Since the Civil War there have
grown up in America immense bust
ness corporations, knit together into
what we call trusts, or combines.
Among the great Industries so welded
together, stand today conspicuous the
Whisky Trust and Brewery Combine.
"A thousand million dollars will not
exaggerate their combined capital.
They not only control the manufacture
Of whiskey and beer. they practically
own and, through local agents, con
troll the hundreds of thousands of
saloons now operating in America.
The independent ma%nufacturer, the in
dependent saloon. keeper is a thing OF
the past.
Let us understand then, plainly, the
enemy We are fighting. Do not let us
blind ourselves as to its power and
resources. We are:fghting arrogant,
brutal trusts with unlimited capital,
accumulated since the Civil WARM
terests which neither love nor hate the
people, controlled solely by the idea
of extending their trade, and with the
sole purpose of making money. A
thousand times I have said, and so
long as God gives me power to speak,
l will say-it is the cold blooded lust
OF money in men who manufacture and
sell and not the appetites of men who
drink which is responsible for the
alarming use of intoxicating liquors
in America.
The Whisky Trust and the Brewery
Combine are literally forcing upon
the American people the habit OF
drink.
Deliberately, and with a devils cum
ming, the Whisky Trust and Brewery
Combine have twisted, warped and
hidden the real issue before the Ameri.
can people,.
Through the great newspapers they
control, through thousands of pai6
emissaries, they have taught millions
of honest men to believe that this cru
SADIE against the liquor traffic is 8
crusade against men who drink; they
have deceived them into the belief tina
it is a war upon their liberty.
What is the truth? There is not ont
word in any temperance law in Amer
lea which says to the adult grown mar
you shall not drink; not one. wore
which says you shall not keep liquor
for personal use within certain limita
tions. Our war is not upon men wht
drink, but upon a vast class of me,
who have realized the possibility o
making money out of the passion!
and appetites os men, upon the sam
principle that classes OF. men in GU
great cities are making millions on
of the business of gambling, out OF tn
business of prostitution. We max
war upon these men, not upon thei
victims.
Every man who thinks, must kno,
that the value of the property of tn
Whisky Trust and. Brewery Combin
depends absolutely upon the sale c
their goods. If their combined capitC
today, amassed since the Civil Wal
Is a thousand million dollars, il
! value absolutely depends upon on
!, fact, that by pushing their trad
, steadily, persistently, relentlessly
they have taught the people Of the re
public to annually consume two bi
lion dollars worth of the product {
} their stills and breweries.
To maintain the value of their pro-
erty, they must not only hold the me
who drink, but within the limit of tn
lives of the men who drink today, til
Whiskey Trust and the Brewery Con
i bine must teach a new generation
drink.
AS men realize this truth, they star
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