Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-14
SURE PEOPLE ARE
MORE TEMPERATE
Liquor Dealers. Who Attack
Hobson Amendment, Say So
briefly Increases Daily.
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WASHINGTON. May 1.-The pend
ing prohibition resolution Of Congress
brought to this city the largest al
tendance IN the history Of the Ma
tlcnal Wholesale Liquor Dealers As.
soeiations. At the final session, held
today, President II. J. Kaltenbach, Of
View York. impressed upon the con
vention that the prohibition fight was
not between the so-ealled moral
forces and the liquor interests, but
rather between those forces and the
liquor consumers.
Commenting on the Hobson resole-
ton, pending In the House. President
Kaltenbach expressed the belief thai
when the people knew Il sought ONLY
to prevent the manufacture of liquor
for sale, If would lose any strength
It might now have. J. Walter Frei
berg, of Cincinnati, chairman oS the
executive committee OF the Protective
Bureau, is said to have been the
most foreeful paper laid before the
members of the convention.
Chairman Freiberg said the peopes
of the United States are more sober
and temperant than ever before IN tbs
history of the nation. He said tenn
perance and sobriety have kept pace
y it'll increased consumption. This car
be only because there are fewer peo-
pie who drink to excess and larger
number who dring moderately. Con-
sumption has increased in territory
where so-called prohibition obtains
and Illicit manufacture increases from
time to time in that territory.
The prohibition agitation OF the
past wears has accomplished nothing
in the interest of temperance. It's net
result is loss and confscation Of
property on the one hand and the
lowering of the moral tone of conf
munities and disrespect for the law
on the other.
We have as high a sense Of honor
or moral, or patriotism and of civic
duty as have other men, continued
Mr. Freiberg If we thought the
business inherently wrong, We would
not be in it. There is no evidence that
the people of this country no longer
desire our product.
Il am honest in my contention that
prohibition means only the illegal sat-
of liquors." said E. A. Bioxsen. o.
Newark. n. J. THE sale Of brewee
and distilled products is well regu7
lated by the States and Municipalities
better. In ternal revenue figures susl
out show that there was large IN
crease in the sales of whiskey and
beaar during the last fiscal year; and.
in spite OF that increase, the peopls
are more temperate than in the his
tory of the nation. People are learn
ing how to drink.
Mr.. Bloxson went on TO say that h
is not fearful of the pending Hobson
resolution, which seeks To give ma
tionwide prohibition through Con
stitutional amendment.
when the people learn that tbs
Hobson proposal only stops the man
ufacture of liquors for sale and no
for use, the honest contenders for pro
hibition will oppose the proposition
Under strict regulation. which nov
very generally prevails. the sale Is no
| harmful, but If the Hobson resolutaoE.
| should be adopted every man coale
/ set up his own little brewery ana as
/ tiilery and then conditions would be
/ come intolerable Il is the illegal sale
/ OF liquors that makes the trouble.
IF the liquor trade is destroyed
win it not be the duty OF the govern
ment to compensate US? When
Switzerland outlawed absinthe, man
ufacturers, dealers, growers ane
workmen were compensated. Shout
not our government do the same, !.
prohibition should prevafl?"
T. NJ. Gilmore, president of the No
tionaI Model License League, spoke
ar the afternoon session on 'What
Does the PROHIBITION Movement
Mean?" Mr.. Gilmore declared tina
nowhere in the country does prohivt-
ton prohibit, nor are local option laws
effective. All State prohibition ana
local option laws. he said, provide
that individuals may purchase for
their own use such quantities of
LIQUOR as they desire, the use Of liquor
not being prohibited, though It's sale
under such legislation be out1awed