Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-10
MIL WAUKEE BEER
VANISHING AT LAST
Wisconsin Town Disturbed
as Dry Raiders Threaten
Real Prohibition.

apeciai Dispatch to The Star
- MILWAUKEE,, April 9.-Prohibi-
| ton is coming at last to Milwaukee,
: where age-old institutions are crumb.
ling under the ruthless ak of the
raider. Milwaukee, view Of prohibi-
ton always has been more or less
subjective.
!. II was never thought here for in
\ stance, that the inhibitions Of the
eighteenth amendment ever would be
construed TO include the beverage
populariy supposed TO have made the
T city famous, and for years and wears
this fiction, or fancy, has continued,
and the old "residenters" have smiled
henignly and said "Prosit ana
cherished the flag and thought Fer
haps a bit obscurely that they were
{ cherishing the constitution. They
I condemned the "bootleggers ana tne
peddling of poison liquors: they de
nounced the bars where hard stuff
was sold They said that was
against the law and the law should be
eupheld.
Beer Hit at Last
Something of this same spirit seems
TO have governed the authorities IN
the past and when raids were made
the search was confined to the contra
hand" Of gin near-gin, scotch, rye,
bourbon and such like. If beer only
was being dispensed the official re-
sports said that all was well and the
state still lived through all the toll
and trouble of the efforts of the Gov
eminent TO convince the people that
the eighteenth amendment must be
upheld at any cost,
Most of the old places" in Nilwau-
kee have endured with their family
entrances" and their family gather
1ngs, largely made up of the older
German element of the. population.
dThey have moved smoothly along, at
tracing no undue attention and being
regarded as a part of the scheme of
things. which nothing could interrupt.
But times change and men change
with them.
Word evidently has gone forth that
the last vestige of the old life" must
be done away with and Milwaukee
looks upon the future with q feeling
skin to dismay. The raiders are abroad
in the land. No longer is the search
confined to ''hooch." The agents order
beer" over the counter or in the
oackroom and no sooner is it served
than out comes a testing tube and If
the alcohol content is more than one
half of one per cent, which it generally
sis. the house is 'pinched and the
grand jury is called upon TO act.
Outcome i'm Doubt.
AS yet no one knows exactly what
will be the outcome of the trials Which
are in the otfing. But when the pro
hibition agents raid such time-worn
institutions as Kahlos and Kaads, and
Peter lettings. and Louis Hubers, TO
say nothing of the good old Heinie
Rosters, Milwaukee simply has to rub
its eyes and wonder if such things
can be.
Somehow or other. Milwaukee has
taken its prohibition so complacently.
Old -style and oId-time beer has been
selling for is cents big" glass and
Is cents for schooner" holding
,nothing short of pint. A few weeks
ago it would have been thought
criminal to give less than a pint for
two bits, whereas today. under the
revolutionary change which has
come, il is q crime to serve any
thing at an
The country at large has had its
mind this week on conditions 10
wears ago after the declaration of
war. Milwaukee is trying to adjust
itself to a new condition Of war in
which the word draft or "draught'
is stiH a paramount considera ton.
The 10 years have wrought q drastic
change. however, for now the
draught is to be forbidden rather
than enforced
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