"In all the history of the political and civil life of the American people there has been no combination or organization of power so brutal, so domineering, so corrupt, or so dead to every sense of civic interest or concern as the brewers of America. They have been and are the chief criminals, and no camouflage to which they may resort will save them. The people will see beneath the false pretense the bare, naked facts. The legislatures of the States will be organized into firing squads, and the beer trade will be compelled to meet its fate."
CHAPTER XI.
ABOLITION OF CRIME AND VICE
WOULD DECREASE THE
SALE OF BEER
Because brewers control the saloons, it is also within their power to suppress "treating," stop the operation of disorderly hotels and private drinking rooms in conjunction with saloons, stop bookmaking and other forms of gambling, in short, remove any and all of the undesirable features connected with the saloon which are objected to by the public--but any serious disturbance with existing conditions would decrease the sale of beer.
CHAPTER XII.
CRIME IS PLANNED IN SALOONS
The brewers know that the saloons are the meeting places of lawbreakers and disreputables, that they enter the side doors leading to private rooms where burglaries, holdups and other crimes are planned and the booty is divided--yet, brewers will make no real effort to improve these conditions.
Is it surprising that the public is clamoring for the complete elimination of the breweries?
CHAPTER XIII.
THE BEER TRAFFIC DOES NOT
RECOGNIZE THE SANCTITY
OF THE HOME
On the other hand, if the saloons and other public drinking places were ousted but the breweries permitted to operate, drunkenness, crime and vice would invade the home.
If the people are determined to remove the objectionable elements inseparable from the beer traffic, they must close the breweries.