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