WHAT THE BREWERS SAY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1682, 8 October 1887, Page 3

WHAT THE BREWERS SAY

% The United Brewers' Association have jußt been holding a special convention at Niagara Falls. They report that " prohibition Is worse than a failure " m lowa and Kausas, and instead of preventing drunkeneßs, it increases it '* In its moat deplorable form." This is the old siory of llqucr makers and vendere. But these browerß viruially contradlot their statement when they say that prohibition In lowa has "reduced the consumption of malt liquorß to an alarmingly low figure." They try to make it app^Br that the m ot eased sale of distilled spirits Is the cause of this ; but very likely a convention of "whiskey" men would tell a similar tale of reduce d c-'naumptU n of ihelr staple, and proclaim ir. creased drunkenness from the greator use of malt liquors. If prohibition is the cause of an increase of drinking saloons and of inebriety, as both beer and whisky men say, how 1b it that their opposition to prohibitory laws Ib bo marked and fierce ? They combine ' and resolve not to vote for any one who favors suoh laws, and only for those who 1 are for free rum. The truth, is, prohibition does generally prohibit, ' Those en- | gaged m the traffic are nctorioua for untruthfulness and perjury m their attempts to prosecute their business m violation of law. — America j Paper, I -