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gether with an intemperate race for business among brew- eries, has begotten a system to which many of the in- creasing evils of the saloon business are due. When a few years ago the saloon-keepers of Chicago made a declara- 145 The Rule of "Not Too Much." tioii of their business, as required by state law, five thou- sand out of eight thousand stated that they were "agents for breweries." It is the consequent degradation which has driven "drinking" men, south and west, to vote with the Prohibitionists, for nothing is more certain about this "Prohibition wave" than that it acquires its great strength not from pure hatred of strong drink, but from hostility to our system of distribution the American saloon. The brewers never claim that prohibition does not hurt their business. It is the distillers, and in their case the claim may be true. The brewers, on the con- trary, have always insisted that prohibition and strongly restrictive legislation works to cut off the use of beer and promote the use of spirits, and very seriously handicaps their business. True, Collier's very adroitly puts its statement in such a way as to create the impression that the brewers make the claim that prohibition does not hurt their business, while leaving the door open to the technical defense that this was not intended to apply specifically to the brewers. Such disingenuous argument is quite

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