enterprise, and consulted about business ventures, on brewer whom every one in town knows and generally Influences Keeping the Dive. prefer to do a business which is not only in technical respects, who is in constant touch with his neighbors, natural that they should oppose prohibition. And I The distiller is as good a citizen as any other business side. believe they do. It is natural that the distiller should But even as to the distillers' side of the case, while local brewer, that is, not the big ones who ship their prohibition does not reduce their business, according quite sufficient reason for him to oppose prohibition. beer far away." to good authority among themselves, it is nevertheless for the degradation of the American saloon, the small As to any difference in this matter between the local It is not true that the brewer is "mainly responsible who is always solicited for contributions for any public compliance with the laws, but also in full accord with 146 The Brewer's Responsibility is Only Partial. man and quite as much interested in the maintenance the one hand, and the shipping brewer who has no the spirit of the law and with good morals. That is of social order. in line with what we commonly meet on the anti-drink