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The Commoiier
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(kpwning Shame of
Brewers
Llko tho kdlsor'a omplrtv tho
Unitod States Browors' AoBocia'tion.
(loacondo to its preappointed doofh
with fresh sharaos beclouding an al
rqady blackpnod name. Nothing more
ropulslve to men of honor could bo
easily imagined than tho explana
tions which Hugh F. Fort, tho brow
ors' national secrotary, offered for
tho oxtondod boycotts decreed by his
organization, as brought to light tho
other da before a congressional in
vestigating committee. He claimed to
have lcopt only a simple roster of tho
foes of tho liquor business tho
man whom his clients rccognizod
that they had to fight. But his spe
cific roasons for successive items on
the list botrayod tho inherent mean
ness with which a brewer necessarily
.regards all mattors of popular well
boing.
Porhaps a certain rlasomblance to
fair fighting might bo soon in put
ting down among boycottod concerns
II. J. Hoinz and his "flfty-sovon
varlotlos"; the reason thoro was that
Mr. i-ioinz was working for prohibi
tion through tho Pennsylvania Sun
,1JH rpi.nrn wrtO ttlO SolVaV PrOCOSS
Company of Syracuse, for instance,
wliicii not oniy reiraciuu uuwouiuu
sentiments expressed previously by
somo of Its officers, but oven promised
M, If itrnii 11 nrnvonf fhn rthlef of itS
private patrol force from advocating
. n..nn TToo lmottinaa
timidity over appeared more' obnox
ious than this?
The Newark Nows in editorial com
ment says tho sarcastic thing which
any fair-minded man must want to
say: "Yet tlio year book of tho
TTnlfnd Slnlns Rrp-WGrfl' Association
denounces as 'a travesty on our prin
ciple of democratic rulo' theattompts
of tho prohibitionists to use 'coercion.'
to attain their designs." The Continent.
McADOO'S RESIGNATION
(Continued from pago 11)
of duty had kont you here until im
mediate tasks of war should be over.
But I am none tho less distressed.
I shall not allow our intimate per
sonal relations to deprive mo of the
pleasure of saying that in my judg
ment tho country has noverMiad an
abler, a moro resourceful and yet
prudortt, a more uniformly efficient
secrotary of tho treasury, and I say
tills remembering all the able, do
U11UU(,U HIV i. UllllOJlVUltttV OUU- ---" - vr.w...w 0 v. ""v uuiw, j
day .School Association. Tiro votoran ! voted and distinguished men who
'picklo man" would bo the last por-!PrGcetled you. I have kopt'your letter
u I. it. . UA ...... A l.f In Yt tlnttlAM 4? 1 t M 1m mw1 au 1. ....i.
8011
n tho country to whino over pay
lift; a prlco for that kind of a compll-fif I could, some other solution of
mont. Tho samo may bo said of
Procjtor & Gamble, tho Ivory soap
firm.. But there was not tho shadow
ofJUairness or decency in. tho con
fossod effort to destroy certain other
groat-industries whoso offonso was
not at all in working for "prohibition
in, tho public sense, but only in the
ouiorcomont of r'ulos requiring their
own omplpyos to abstain from liquo.
This supremely olflsh resentment
camo to its grossest climax in tho
blacklisting of tho Lackawana rail
a number of-days in order to suggest,
your difficulty than tho one you have
now felt obliged to resort to. But I
have not been able to think of any.
I cannot ask you to make further
sacrifices, serious as the loss of the
government, will be in your retire
men)?. I accept your resignation,
therefore, to take effect upon- the ap
pointment of a successor becauso in
justice to you I must. '
"I also,.-for the same reasons ac
cept your resicrn tion as director Gen
eral of railroads, to take effect as
road because it ruled against drink-1 you suggest, on the first of January
Ing among its employes just aftor a; or when yaur successor is arponted.
drunken engineer had killed several TIo whole world admires, I am sure,
scores of passongors In an inexcusablo as I do, the skill and executive capa-
wrooK. to the unitou states Brewers' city wun wnicii you handled the great
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"Gratefully and affectionally yours,
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