How a New York Brewer Advertises His Cabaret Resort
The following advertisement appeared in
The New York Times:
CHAPTER XVII.
MILLIONS EXPENDED IN
CORRUPTING ELECTIONS
UNITED STATES
BREWERS' ASSOCIATION
EXPOSED
I have also many times urged the brewers to break away from their national organization, the United States Brewers' Association--also known as the Brewers Trust--because I felt convinced that they would sooner or later lay themselves open to exposure and criminal prosecution, and that it would further increase the hostility toward their industry if they should persist in their attempts to defeat the prohibition movement by the expenditure of money in corrupting elections, legislation and public officials.
Political contributions amounting to many millions of dollars, based upon the annual output of brewers throughout the country, are turned into their association.
Other enormous sums are collected from those who sell to brewers. They are expected to join a "league of manufacturers and dealers" organized to fight prohibition. From invoices rendered to brewers for goods purchased a certain amount is retained.
Officials of the United States Brewers' Association declare that checkbooks, bank passbooks, checks, stubs and correspondence are destroyed monthly, and that the only record left is the money the association has in bank.