corruption. Intimations have come from the same source that similar
indictments may be handed down against brewers in all parts of the country.

But even the scandalous exposures in Texas and Pennsylvania will not
stop their interference with elections.

The truth is that the very nature of the business of the brewers
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.

In New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the mere suggestion to
keepers of saloons, hotels and other places where liquor is sold
that the "dry" wave may soon put them out of business usually
brings forth the reply: "Our state will never go 'dry.' The brewers
have too much money. They can buy all the votes required, as well
as public officials, to kill any legislation hostile to them."



CHAPTER XVIII.


HOW CHICAGO BREWERS HAVE
TRIED TO PREVENT A "DRY"
VOTE


In Chicago, heretofore considered by the brewers one of their
greatest strongholds, in order to enable the people to vote whether