Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-12-22
SALOONS Plan
SUPPORT
new DRY Law

SAN FRANCISCo.-What Is inter
preted by local saloon men as an nitl'
matum to them either to abandon the
sale of spirituous liquors or go rout
OF business is contained in big as
play lad" published in the NEWSPAPERS
over the signature OF the uniteo
States Brewers Association.
The United States Brewers Asso'
citation embraces in its membership
all OF the state brewers associations
in the country.
Its advertisement contains the FOL
lowing significant statements:
The, true relationship Of beer is with
light wines and soft drinks--not Win
hard liquors. !.
For this false mental association
the brewers are largely responsible.
Keen competition in the early days
of the brewing industry, before the
perfection of modern bettling meth
DDS, led the brewers as individuals
to encourage the establishment OF
saloons, which were at that time the
only agencies through which their
Eroduct could be lawfully sold. This
uuwise individual action on the part
of mony led To an undue multiplied.
ticn OF the saloon--a form OF retail
distribution which dealt not only IN
malt beverages but also in fntoxicat-
ing LIQUORS, and established a busi-
ness utilization that has since created
the false mental association.
Thus our product has been unJustiy
and improperly linked with those In
fluences- which we have had no
control, that have actually promoted
intemperance.
For years. we have hoped, with
wine growers, that some factor would
intervene which would enable us to
sever, once and for all, the shackles
that bound our wholesale. products
slight wines and beer, the handmade
ems to true temperance-to ardent
spirits In popular mental association
and actual business practise. The
federal en-; ctment prohibiting the dis
tiIiation Of spirituous liquors. has
broken those chains at last.
Freed now to speak for the great
moral truth Of temperance that we
have long realized was ours-heart,
ened by the action of Congress and
the president-we welcome the OPP
portunity that Is thus afforded US to
promote .-ue. temperance. Further,
we pledge ourselves to cooperate with
the spirit OF the law by adding our
utmost efforts to dissociate beer from
distilled liquors In every way, in popu-
lar thought and In the saloon.
After. reading tn advertisement q
number Of local saloonmen declared
that II meant that the brewers had
decided TO abandon them, and that
they were evidently going to support
either the Rominger bill or some
other anti-saioon measure at the next
state election.
Secretary Schultz OF the California
State Brewers association said that
the advertisement had been sent to
the local newspapers from the ma
tional headquarters of the United
States Brewers Association.
1T came to us like a thunderbolt."
he said. ave do not know what It
means.
The proprietor OF a prominent sa-
loon on Market street announced his
intention of posting a big, sign in his
place. urging all his patrons to vote
the state bone dry.
IF the brewers are going to quit
us. we may as well fight them to a
finish,r he said.
It Is known that recently the mem
bers OF the California Brewers Asso.
citation have been considering the ad.
visibility of supporting the Rominger
bill In the next state campaign. This
utterance by the national organization
Is believed to assure such action on
their mart