The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-11-02
EQUAL RIGHT D
HOME INDUSTRIES
Committee Presents
Facts.

The committee advocating the pass.
age of what is commonly known q
he Beer amendment, No. 314 on the
sllot, have pledged themselves as de-
termined to have the law, II passed
endorsed according to its true intent
and purpose, namely. as merely putt
ng the Oregon Hop growers and
brewers on an equal footing with out
siders.
The committee feel the public will
believe such eminent lawyers "a
EMessrs. Montague, Gearin, Pipes,
Carey, Fulton, Simon, Bernstein, Co.
jhen and others, who have given their
carefully considered opinion that no
attempt to establish saloons, bottle
houses or other unregulated sales of
beer would be successful. 1t would
be turning the law away from its
Iplain intent and therefore impossible
But the enthusiasm of the prohibi-
tionistS continues to misrepresent the
purpose of this law and the good
faith of this committee, and having
abandoned the idea of the general
saloon, the Prohibitionists now insist
that is is the bottle house" which is
to be feared. They say that the COM
nittee can only speak for itself not
he brewers. Wishing to meet all OBJ
ections, however fanciful, the COM
mittee finally thought best to lay the
matter before the brewers, and in res
ponse to our request we have received
the following statement:
To c. S. Wood and c. T. Haas,
Chairman and Secretary of the ECU
al Rights for Home Industry" Com
mittee and to the several members OF
|said Committee:
We, the undersigned, formerly in
the brewing business in the State of
oregon, in answer to your request beg
O say, for record and publication that
Ii case the constitutional amendmer.
No. 314, providing for the manufac
ure of a light beer, not exceeding
our per cent alcoholic strength, is
passed, we will not attempt to open
saloons or bottle houses, or in any
way directly or indirectly to violate
the plain terms of the law which we
understand is intended to give US
only the rights enjoyed in Oregon by
brewers outside the State, and we
will join in enforcing the law accord
ng to it's spirit. For our own pro-
lection and in the interest of the pro-
posed amendment, we respectfully
request your committee to prepare
plan by which the sale Of state brew
ed beer, if permitted, may be fully
and satisfactorily regulated, and we
suggest that a registration book OF
those entitled to receive beer be open
ed and the taking of affidavits be
handled by some public official. We
will ourselves ask cities and counties
to make proper regulations, and aid
to the extent of our ability in their
enforcement. Also, it must not be
orgotten that within four weeks after
this amendment becomes effective, if
passed, a law mey be enacted for the
full and complete regulation, and un-
til some other plan is adopted by ci
ties and counties, we will be compell-
ed to follow the procedure now in
force at the express Offices for the
of liquors namely we
will not sell or deliver to any person
who is minor, habitual drunkard
Or who is not properly entitled to re-
3eiye his quota of beer under the ex-
sting law, and we will enact an afii-
1avit showing all those facts, and al
SO stating that the affiiant has not |
within the said period imported his
quota of beer or other liquors from |
outside the state or received it else |
where. In other words, we will CO.
operate in detailed regulation of the |
sale Of beer permitted by the amend
nent.
We desire to add what should be |
'elf-evident, that our heavy invest
nents in the state, our self-interest,
make it necessary that we win the ia
gor and approval of the public, by |
aiding on honest Interpretation and |
enforcement of the law. We now
leave 1t to the public to determine |
what this law means to the entire
state, not only through the preser-
vation of the hop and allied indus
tries, but as tending toward true tenn
perance.