GOVERNMENT
by the
BREWERS?
By
ADOLPH KEITEL
For thirty years intimately
associated with the
brewing industry
1918
Chicago
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 attemptsto bribe me, men were hired to poison me. After the failure ofthis plot to dispose of me, I was subjected to almost unbelievableinsults, persecution, humiliat
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