The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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BREWERS POSITION
EIGHT FOR PROHIBITION STATEHOOD
IS RAGING HIGH.
FAUST TO THE RESCUE
President Roosevelt and Congress Have
Been Asked to Act Beer Contains
Little Alcohol Says the Brewers.
Brewery interests have already
begun their campaign to secure
the euilimination of the prohibi
tion clause from the statehood bill
admitting Oklahoma, which is ex
pected to pass at the coming
sion of congress.
Washington representatives of
the breweries today circulated a
statement setting forth their oon
teutions and intimating that Pres-
ident Roosevelt is inclined to
support their side of the case.
In reference to the President's
attitude to and his probable course
in the matter of prohibition in the
new state, the brewery press agent
remarks as follows:
"The President is to be liberal
in hie views as to the uso of drink
but, at the same time, he is xealous
in looking after the morals and
future of the Indian*.
"The President accepted a crate
of beer recently sent him by
large brewery, and in his reception
of the peace envoys on board the
Mayflower he drank champaign in
proposing the toast that Russia
and Japan should signalize a per-
manent peace.
"Temperance has been the Pres-
ident's policy all his life, but
winos and similar drinks have not
been shut out of the White House
and have been part of the recep.
tion held there.
"The opinion is advanced that
the President would oppose the
idea of requiring prohibition in
the new state, believing that the
people of the state ought to decide
that question for themselves."
The subject of prohibition for
11 id inm Territory brought on a
hot fiybt when the statehood bill
Hctive for sometime in denouncing
the us** of the congressional frank
in promoting prohibition cam-
paigns. It is evident, in view of
the alleged cra*e-of-beer incident
and the publicity sought to be giv-
en to the President's act in propos-
ing champaign toasts, the brew-
eries are determined, if possible,
to head off the expression of any
prohibitio doctrine in the presi-
dential message.
Further phases of the prohibi-
tion campaign are equally inter-
esting. The breweries say that
they would make no opposition to
congress providing for prohibition
in the I ndian Territory of "strictly
alcoholic drinks." But they do
not c'rjs beer as strictly alboholic.
C *1 >is basis, divorcing them-
sc« 'S iiom the whisky distillers,
I. J. WING ft CO.
REAL ESTATE,
CHELSEA, I. T.
HAS FOR OIL,
40 acres of deeded
land, in the great oil
belt of Chelsea, has
log house, good well,
and is all under fence.
50 acres fine black
prairie limestone soil
with oil wells all
aronnd it.
100 acres timbered
land will make good
farm, one and a half
miles from railroad.
40 town lots in the
town of Chelsea, on
of the best towns in
the Cherokee Nation.
OIL, LANDS TO LEASE
AND PARM8 TO RENT.
Prieeo Time Tabtsa.
„ ... . . Win Bousd.
'!.0, .1? Oklahoma Exprw- .... 12 M p. m,
JVS H*1"0' «"•
413 Metoor 1 :S0 a. m
Exit Bocnd.
UUSKaatern Kipmw
414 Meteor
Me
41
istaor
4:JU it. in
11:4S p. m
12 .1*1 a. m
sa\.';ig that the latters' product is
the real menace to Indians and the
public in general, the brewers pro.
claim themselves temperance advo-
cates and in sympathy with the
prohibitionists. In this connec-
tion E. A. Faust, second vice-pres-
ident of the Anheuser-Busch
Brewing company, has authorised
the following statement:
"Every brewer {n this country
would like to forward the cause of
temperance and those engaged in
our business stand ready to give
(heir moral and financial aid to
|he laws that sincerely tend to
temperanoe.
"In this proposition as to the
Indian Territory, I would not be
surprised to know that if tha
question be submitted straight to
President Roosevelt and congress
they would favor, if they favored
prohibition at all, which I do not
know, the shutting out of whisky
and all drinks strong with
alchohol, and the admission of
beer and the lighter drinks, even
among the Indians.
"The brewers of this country
have made one big mistake for
many years, and that is to have
allowed public opinion to associ
ate their interests with those of
whisky-makers.
There is absolutely nothing in
common between the two inter-
ests are vitally and seriously
opposed.
"Prohibition means invariably
the continued sale of whisky by
illicit methods in a state or terri-
tory and the shutting down of
sales of beer, which can be
haudled only in bulk. This is
why whisky distillers never make
much objection to prohibition
laws.
"Beer contains less than four
per cent of alcohol, is pure,
healthy wholesome, and no true
temperance man or prohibitionist
wits pending last session, and a
prohibition clause was inserted j
into the bill. Now the champions
of prohibition and breweries are '
at it hammer and tongs again.
Prohibition bureaus in Wash-
ington have franked out thousands
of copics of Senator (ialliger's
speech in the senate favoring that
policy, and they have been work-
ing on the President to recommend
prohibition in his coming message.
The brewery element has been
should object to it at any more
that that to coffee, tea, or any
drink that is mildly stimulated.!
Jt is far more healthful that tea
or coffee, furnishes strength to
the weak and beyond doubt
away with an appetite
whisky.
To the Lakes of
Wisconsin and Michigan
T here are hundreds of ideal lake resorts in Wisconsin and
Michigan easily and quickly reached from Kansas City by the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Railway.
Books descriptive of these resorts, with rates for railroad
tickets and board, mailed free to those interested.
The best train to summer resorts, East and North, is The
Southwest Limited. leaves Kansas City, Union Station, 5 : 55 p. m.,
Grand Avenue Station, (>: 07 p. m. Arrives Chicago, Union Station,
8:20 a. m. the next day. Connections in Union Station, Chicago,
with trains to principal lake resorts.
G. L. COBB,
Soutfcwesteni Passenger Agent,
007 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.
V
they wanted the really alcoholic
drinks continued.
I am satisfied that in nearly
every local-option county in the
United States the sale of beer
woujd not be forbidden, while the
sentiment as to whisky would
probably remain about as it is.
Whiskey is dangerous of
health, and morals, impoverising
to finances of the family and
does not belong in the same class
with beer any more that water
and molasses are the same thing.
There has been much
misrepresentation of the brewing
industry for years that it is
almost losing the time to say
anything in favor of it, but I
should like to furnish some
figures that will interest prohibi-
tion and temperance workers
all over the oountry. The figures
are official.
"When Seth Low was Mayor of
Brooklyn he caused the publica-
tion of a tabulated statement
showing the ratio of arrests for
intoxication to population and
saloons. There were two classes
j of licenses in Brooklyn at that
j time—one at a low cost, permit-
1 ting the sale of beer only; the
other, at a higher price, allowing
the sale of spirits and all other
intoxicants, showing that the
lawmakers in that state recog-
nized a big difference between
beer and whiskey.
"The statement shows that in
precints where there were mostly
beer saloons, the proportion of
arrests to 'population was the
insignificant figure of one-half
Warning Order
In the D. 8. Court at Vinita. In Uie Northern
Dlatrict of the Indian Territory.
Mary K. Steven* Plaintiff
of
R. K. HtuTMtH Defendant.
No. 2331
The defendant H. K. Steven, it warned tu
appear in thin Court within thirty day
and answer the romplaint of the plaintiff
Mary K. Steven*. An*u*t 4 IMA.
D. G. Elliott Attorney for Plaintiff.
< eo. K. MrCtilUwk Attorney for Non-Besi
dent Defendant.
Cha«. A. Davidson Clark, by K. B
I>avfd-on. Deputy.
from hcrt to there.
ST. LOUIS £ SAN FRANCISCO RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY.
YOUR
SUMMER
VACATION
Is doubtless one to which you are
now giving considerable thought
It is only a night's ride to
Eureka Springs
and on July 18th ten-flay round
trip tickets may be had at consid-
erably LESS THAN ONE FARE
does four-fifths of one per cent, while
for! 'n t^ie pwi"fts in which most of
the whiskv saloons were located
. between
- • ""ra mm idsiyb per cent,
everyone to agree, when there are, These are wonderful figures, and
local-option laws the temperance ought to awaken public
advocates, the only condition' ■*nti«n«,t.
njple.
four
•I wi.i> i prei.„ pun|jrv-prnUot;„v:
being that when the question of
wet'or 'dry* is submitted to a
county there shall be a separate
and distinct vote as between
whisky and beer-—that the
question should be submitted as
to whether the people wanted
bee? and similar mild drinks
oontinned on sale and whether
J*The explanation is sim
Beer contains front three to
per cent of alcohol, while
spiritous liquors thst contain
fifty per cent or more of alcohol.
"I have been told that 8eth
Low is an earnest advocate of the
widespread use of beer to offset
whisky drinking in communities
where there is a large consump-
tion of irhi&y.
Note lie low a few of the rates
applying:
Okla. City $H.00Holdeiivilie$t>.50
Chandler. $0.00Okmulgee. $6.00
Sapulpa $5.50 Claremore...$5.50
Tulsa $5,50 Vinita ..$5.00
Located at Eureka Springs
and on the summit of the
Oaarks is the
Crescent Hotel
where excellent accommoda-
tions may be secured at very
reasonable rates.
J. F. PORTER,
Solicits Your Draying,
Phone 31.
V
J. W. Bone,
Physician and Surgeon,
Office, Rooms 2 and 3, Lane
Building.
CHBL8EA, IT
A. C. Trotter is working for the
Chelsea Telephone Co. this week.
YES SIR ' &
WATCHES '
ARE SOLO/ J*
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Come In—take a look at a
beautlftil display of
JEWELRY
winter you wffl
find catalog llhis-
trsttn#
thousands
of us«fU|
For tioketa, sleeping oar reser-
vations, etc., ask ticket agent or
address
F. E
CUILB. P. A*
Wichita, Ka«.
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Quinn, J. W. The Chelsea Commercial. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1905, newspaper, August 18, 1905; Chelsea, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175189/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.