Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1935-08-29
NORTHWEST BREWERS
OPPOSE PROHIBITION

Northwest Brewers Oppose Laloo,
Seattle, august G6.-BreWerS o
the Paclnc northwest are lrrevucaI
ly opposed 10 the return OF the sal
oun. Iuey are unaiteraDly III faVo
or strict state llquOf cOntrOi all,
Will night any NOV enent Seeking II
LIcdh ~ Town eltner with or with
out the AID OF organized dry forces
Inns was the answer TO-DAY OF the
Northwest brewers Association tt
the declaration of Washington
anti saloon league of it's intentions
to start an intensive two yeal
campaign" Immediately to AGAIN
make Washington dry. The assoc
iation represents the major brewer
les operating In Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho.
Not only is the industry deter
mined to maintain complete separa
ton of temperate beer from hard
liquor interests but it is ready to
cooperate in educational movement
that promise practical temper
ance education" accordin to a
statement issued today for the N.
w. Brewers Association by it's pub
Vic relations committee.
"From the moment this nation,
weary of the legal prohibition myth
repealed the Eighteenth Amend
ment'', reads the statement paid
professional prohibition agitators
and groups of dry zealots have been
planning to again attempt to shack
ell free Americans with another
tragic reign of unavoidable prohi-
bition.'' We, therefore, cannot per-
NIT to pass unnoticed the threat
of professional dry legTfsrHsa.c at
tempt to destroy the tate
control system, whichA--lsr,o Is the
States the orderly handling of hard
liquor sales and broad powers for
regulation of retail sales of beer
and wine, and establishments sell
ling same.
members of the Northwest
Brewers Association wish to make
it plain that the brewers are ire
vocably opposed to the retur of the
saloon. They are unanimously de-
termined to maintain segregation
of beer from high alcoholic liquol
interests. 1t is their purpose to es
tablish beer for what it is-a non
intoxicant, a healthful food bever-
age. With these objectives in view,
the Nos Invest Brewers Association
will lend it's support to practical
promotion of importance education
al works and will give such things
it's sincere support.
Movements directed, however, to-
ward the promotion of prohibition,
it will as determinedly oppose as it
opposes the return of the saloon.
In this, it ca intake no other stand,
because the nation learned by year
of tragic experience that prohibit
ton brough on such staggering
reign of crime and record of MUIR
ders and corruption, to say nothing
of the economic loss of taxation
and business revenues, that repeal
was the only way out.
'Without impugning the motive
of thousand of honest beliefers in
the elusive ideal of an actually dry
nation, we wish to point out the in
disputable fact that legal prohibit
ton in practice is the best friend of
ire lawless bootlegger, racketeer-
ing gangster, and the criminal ele-
ment. All the good intentions in
the world cannot make it other
wise.
practical demonstration during
the last year in Washington state
has definitely shown that state Ii
quor control and regulation of re-
tail dispensers is UNNECESSARILY SUI
perior eithe to prohibition chaos or
the old time soloon evils. Under it,
millions of dollars that formerly
went into the private pockets OF
boot1eggers is now diverted into
state, local and federal treasures
for constructive pubic use and
welfare, such as old age pensions,
schools-and all for the relief of
general taxpayers.
lincolnshire bootlegging which
was creation of prohibition and
grew to giant proportions under it.
has already practically disappeared
in Washington during the last few
months. Disrespect for law trat
formerly was bred in tens of thous-
ands of home brew Easements a.
mong young and old is fast disap
bearing along with pre-repeal
moonshine and prohibition speak
easies.
Conditions in fact have so i'm
measurably improved that 1t is in
conceivable that Washington can
ever again see renewal Of wet nd
dry fights. Any future contest
must be between the rabid dry
bent on destruction, verses the con-
trollist'. The 'controllist' is a citi-
zen who realizes that regulation OF
alcoholic beverages and the elimina
ton of tire saloon meets the actual
requiremets Of our people far bet
ter than legal mythical dryness and
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