What can cause greater hostility toward the brewers than the fact that midnight closing and Sunday laws are openly violated with their knowledge and connivance and that political influence and the liberal use of money will gain them immunity from prosecution?
Has it not frequently been said that the "dough bags" of the brewers control the courts and influence their decisions?
"Absence of drunkenness, law and order, and the reduction of crime to a minimum, have invariably followed the 'dry' wave"
CHAPTER XVI.
ANOTHER VICE BACKED BY
BREWERS
CABARETS
AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS
How little my advice was heeded was clearly shown by, the appearance of a comparatively new vice--openly aided and abetted by brewers--which in a few years has spread its poisonous tentacles to all parts of the country. I refer to
[CABARETS AND TANGO DANCE RESORTS]
What more can inflame the mind of the public against the brewers than these vulgar and liquor flowing twentieth century dives, especially when the fact is considered that many of these gilded hells are owned and operated by brewers themselves?
In many European cities similar resorts are classed among houses of ill repute and the same police regulations are applied to them. Here, they are brazenly advertised as "afternoon teas" to lure the unwary.