Produced by Bruce D. Thomas
GOVERNMENT BY THE BREWERS?
By ADOLPH KEITEL
For thirty years intimately associated with the brewing industry
CONTENTS.
Chapter
Preface
Ballot Box (Illustration.)
I. My thirty years' intimate association with the brewers
II. Prohibition banishes crime
III. What is beer?
IV. Non-alcoholic beer is a mysterious compound of drugs
V. Beer is a habit forming drug
VI. Why beer is not a fit drink for the home
VII. Beer is not a temperance drink
VIII. The decreased alcoholic content of beer will increase drunkenness
IX. Brewers' grains are considered dangerous for cows milk
X. Brewers assault distillers to hide their own crimes
XI. Abolition of crime and vice would decrease the sale of beer
XII. Crime is planned in saloons
XIII. The beer traffic does not recognize the sanctity of the home
XIV. A vice complaint
An every-day vice scene (Illustration)
XV. Laws are openly violated
XVI. Another vice backed by brewers
Cabarets and tango dance resorts
How a New York brewer advertises his cabaret resort
XVII. Millions expended in corrupting elections
United States Brewers' Association exposed
XVIII. How Chicago Brewers have tried to prevent a "dry" vote
XIX. Brewers fear woman suffrage
XX. People resent government by the brewers
PREFACE.
When it was found impossible to suppress my writings by attempts
to bribe me, men were hired to poison me. After the failure of
this plot to dispose of me, I was subjected to almost unbelievable
insults, persecution, humiliation and injustice in the courts.
A friendly federal judge was besought to stop me by an injunction.
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals set it aside.
Four futile attempts were made to influence the Post Office
authorities to deny me the use of the mails.
I was twice presented with the alternative of either agreeing to
stop the publication of the truth or being thrown into jail on
"framed" libel charges. I chose the jail rather than renounce the
right of the freedom of the press guaranteed me by the constitution
of my country.
When even the jail could not silence me, a diabolical attempt was
made to bury me alive in an institution for the insane, but when
it was found impossible to discover the slightest trace of insanity,
or drive me insane during a sojourn of a month among maniacs, I
was released.
I verily believe that the honesty of the alienists in charge of the
institution alone saved me from a living death.
THE AUTHOR
[Illustration: A Menace to good Government]
"_The very nature of the business of the brewer makes it imperative
that they retain a strong hold on the ballot box. By those methods
alone have they been able to exist in the past. By those methods
alone, can they hope to save themselves_"
CHAPTER I.
MY THIRTY YEARS' INTIMATE ASSOCIATION WITH THE BREWERS
For about thirty years I have been closely allied with the brewing
industry and was daily brought in contact with the brewers.
I have been interested in a number of breweries as a stockholder.
I have been intimately associated with many brewers throughout the
country. I am therefore thoroughly familiar with the inner history
of the beer business and the political corruption, crime, vice and
degeneracy closely interwoven therewith.