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BUT A THERE’S A FASCINATING FRAGRANCE NA PER: DEW HUNTER JULEP WILL REFRESH AND COMFORT YOU Sold at ail Grut-clase cater and hy jobbers, WM. LANANAN & SOS, Laltimore, Md. UDGE LL LLL LLL The Annual 4 Convention of the United States Brewers’ Association. T# of the United States Brewers’ As- E FIFTIETH annual convention] tories now totally dry, mittee views with satisfaction the dis. sociation, held in Washington, D. C.,|tricts which have swung out of the dry recently, was of great importance as | column. marking, in the opinion of its leading spirits, the decline of the prohibition wave. President Hoster declared that, far from apologizing for being a brewer, he recognized in every brewer a logical promoter of true temperance. He predicted a speedy return to license by those States which had adopted prohi- bition or local op- tion. “The pendulum is slowly but sure- ly swinging the other way,” said President Hoster, “and it is becom: ing more clearly and generally rec- ognized that the license system, which simply spells regulation, can be made to bring about better results than anything else that has been tried. “The police pow- er of the State is being carried to such lengths that our democratic government has assumed a character of benevolent paternalism. The brewing industry is simply one of On the whole, the trend is a wholesome one.’* ; The Vigilance Committee believed that the year just ended marked the height and the beginning of the reces- sion of the wave of prohibition. In Alabama's repudiation of a prohibition amendment to the State's constitution, the brewers saw great hope of the CARL J. HOSTER, President United States Brewers’ Association, | A résumé of conditions through the States, presented to the convention by the committee, charges in effect that prohibition in many States prohibited nothing at all For Georgia, the committee reported : “This State is le- gally dry, but actu- ally as moist as the needs of the people require. Under prohibition, illicit distilling has trebled in the State, and the moonshiner now gets five dollars a gallon for the stuff he used to sell for a dollar.’’ In Oklahoma, the committee de- clared, there were three times as many arrests and violations since the State had gone dry as there were when it was licensed ter- ritory. “Kentucky,"’ the committee report- ed, ‘gives unmis- takable signs that it has no use for State-wide prohibitio: while Maine, the parent of prohibition, is still going on in the old way, giving forth no fruits of repentance."* A condition which the committee de- scribed as alarming was reported as ex- isting in South Carolina. ‘*Never hi illicit whiskey distilling there been so popular as in the last year,”’ said the committee. Strong argument for the restoration of the army canteen was made in the report of the publication committee. ‘Public opinion, as interpreted by license principle being applied in terri-| the press of the country and expressed In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated. y recent elections"? the report a crystallizing against prohibi- it lof wealth, power, and fanaticism ar- rayed in its support, prohibition has not the standing before the American peo- | ple which it had a short year ago.”” | The editorial ns of many newspapers, magazines, and other pub- lications favoring license were presented to the convention, | The restoration of the army canteen, JACOB RUPPERT, JR. Vice-president United States Brewers’ Association. the committee declared, was demanded louder than ever. While the prohibition movement has | ridden at high tide, the sale of beer increased 90,000,000 gallons and the sale of spirits has bounded upward 11, 000,000 gallons. Holman Day, the well-known writer, | Sesctibed the failure of prohibition io | HUGH F. FOX, Secretary United States Brewers’ Association. Maine and predicted resubmission of the question to the people. | In addressing the convention, Repre- | sentative Boutell, of Ilinois, made an unqualified attack on _ prohibition. Three lessons were to be learned from the several States that had put prohibi- tion laws into effect. These were, he contended: That prohibition did not prohibit; that when the open sale of mild beverages was forbidden, the sur- reptitious sale of strong spirits of an inferior quality greatly increased; that there was an appalling increase in pro- hibition States in the demand for patent | medicines, tonics, and narcotie drugs. lover of a good cocktail should call for | Abbott's Bitters: Makes the best. Z Always The Same Good Old for Home. 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