Selected Anti-Saloon League of Wisconsin Records, 1917-1918

              last summer w^- sav/ thg saloon figdit the same way ddv/n in Texas where the state all but went for Prohibition. And this fall v/e saw them concentrate their efforts down in ^*%ine where the out co.-^^e is still undecided.  '    '' y i '    If we could see this liquor traffic as it really is v/e would see going out from every saloon in   the countrji a cord that connects it up to soiTie brev/ery av/ay of in the distance and from every brewery you would see enun-ierable cords that connect it with every other brev/ery in the country anA all these cords go to eake that one great cord that c-erta^s-ts to getheb thia great organized morstor/ the legalixed liquor traffic of A-rsri-ca. Tfttwb/you find that if you touch-a*pr-sr^art ot-t^i^'^iimij&^^j^r^ fo'oA^JtjMy i-n-^^taet' not--w±thr"'tTTe"~l?5ri:'t
that yon 4rhii)k yuu—toch~ but with--the enti'SPe fee—-st . ti;al nas over \/2     \\
a billion dollars at its disposal and stands ready to spend every cent of it if.it need be necessary. If tb.e one rrile bill that v/as up before the legislature at Madison last v/inter,for th.e extensior of the dry zon<^ around the oniversity from aft^ mile to one Tile,had passed, it v/ould have effected very immaterially the business of the milwaukee brev/ers ,for tbe s^aloons that would have been throv/n out by this bill were not saloons that hot their heer of the Miiw.aukee breweries ,but of Hausman and Fauerback the Madison brev/ers. But before these milv/aukee b-reweries '?.aiai^ see any encrouciiment whatsoever on -tim^ sacred privalege to sell beer,they hired the best speakers that there brewery money could buy ir Milwaukee and sent them; IjfVW-i to Madison to tell the representatives of the people that theonly way
to make good and uprigirit grud.C^itB out of i*^ students is to surround them v/ith temptations,saloons in this case, inorder that when