AS A BREWERY AGENT SAW IT.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 249, 18 March 1916, Page 9

AS A BREWERY AGENT SAW IT.

At one of the meetings on the way to the Seattle Convention, Mrs Deborah K. Livingston caught the attention of the audience by the somewhat startling announcement that the National Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the American Brewers’ Association are agreed on one point, and that is that the liquor traffic is doomed by the success of woman suffrage ! She related a conversation she had not long ago on a railroad train, with an agent of a large Cincinnati brewery, in which she asked him what he considered the greatest factor in the country for the extermination of the liquor traffic, and after he had freely admitted that by 1920 or 1925, at the latest, the doom of the liquor traffic would come that it was making its last stand—his reply was: “Frankly, I think there are two things that are hurrying National Prohibition : the great new efficiency basis in the industrial world —men of capital and men of the labouring class have come to see that John Barleycorn does not pay in dollars and cents; and secondly, the. enfranchisement of the women of the United States. If the big corporations do not put us out of business before long, the woman’s ballot will dead sure.”