Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-07-01
LAISsEz FARE.

LAISSEZ FARE.
The Prohibition Party does not
propose to serve out any Justice
even a poor brand-they seek only
and selfishly their own immediate
ends with no consideration what
soever of their felloW-man, caring not
who sinks@so that they swim. If
they cannot rule they ruin or cripple
and in that respect unlike the slave
question for whose manumission the
Civil War ensued, while tentative in
Identification was entertained yet no
result reachedMthes chaps to reach
their goal would bankrupt the coun-
try by paralyzing the industries of
the nation, render nugatory the four
or five hundreds of millions revenue
receipts and not have the decency of
creating a fund of three or four
hundred millions out of their own
pockets to build us Navy for pro-
lection.
The train of evils following in the
wake of Prohibition are legion. One
of the aftermaths is the coal situ
alton. Some little while ago a
Kansas paper contained an article
elaborately portraying the conditions
as they are with the coal miners who
have declared as their slogan
No Beer-NO Coal.
Can we imagine a greater calamity
Detailing our country than the par
alization of all of our industries as
corOllary of the action Of the coal
miners. The hideous epigram suf-
fees. Needless to dwell or expatiate
further on the gruesome prospect as
q world of meaning can be trans
lated from the sententious utterance.
Hadn't we better exhaust all concil-
iatory measures first before we take
the fatal step so pregnant with hor-
rors Rather much rather accept the
proffer of the brewers to limit their
production and in addition let them
make a still lighter beer with less
alcoholic content thus employing less
material in the manufacture of their
product They could further abandon
the use Of corn and produce their
beer from pure malt as is done in
Germany thus conserving and adding
to the food products of the nation.
The conversion of the starch con-
tanned in the barley is by chemical
process in mailing. transformed into
saccharine which after brewing
leaves the residue rich in protein but
still richer in saccharine matter, tax
ing the place of other feeds prefer
ably for dairy purposes, and this by
product renders gain of easily one
third OF the barley to the food pro-
ducts of the nation. In the last two
months the fallacy of Prohibition
with its attending evils is graphically
depicted by Cardinal Gibbons (than
whom no better authority exists in
.,..fta al ~ ON
daily papers and every line is freight
cd with tons of wisdom. The writer
who has spent a lifetime in the
business of brewing has in the past
fifty years often discussed at inter-
walls with his reference the insensate
trend of Prohibition with its many
accompanying evils and that the peo-
pie would rue the day If ever it was
innovated And right he Is as he
generally IS in his prognostications
They are entirely wrong in their
premises and therefore wrong in
their conclusions. Who would have
the patience to listen to their tWad
die? They are destructionists, not
constructionists Therefore Laissez-
Faire--let us keep on and let well.
enough alone, and keep inviolate all
those Industries that furnish the
"sinews of war; and create others.
Keep the wheels going around and
keep this Prohibs from the throttle
valve Of the nation Keep them out
OF the engine room for fear that they
will commit sabotage and our indus
trial propulsion be crippled. The
nations best interests are promoted
to q better degree by keeping those
Inconsistencies at arms" length.
LET us act sensible and let well
enough alone"
JOHN MARI,
Caswell Hotel,
Baltimore, Md.