Adolphus Bunch
St- Louis, Mo.
Paris, Oct. 19th. 1905.
MY PKAR CETTI :
(President Texas Bracing Co., Th. Worth. Tex.)
Mr. Claims wrote me tlmt you lmve refused to pay your assessment towards the Educational Bureau. which has. so to speak, been created by me and some of my friends for the benefit of the brewing business of the U. S.
Most of our people have no Idea of the true merits of beer — they know nothing of Its wholesomeness and Its superior nutritious properties —ami rather believe all the false things said about this article. No voice hns ever been raised to correct this wrong impression people have got about beer. It Is my aim to win the American jteople over to our side, to make them nil lovers of beer ami leach them to have respect for the brewing industry nntl the brewer. Tills work has got to be done systematically, and the best writers of our country will have to lend their assistance. It may cost us a million of dollars, and even more, but what of It if thereby we elevate our position? I stand ready to sacrifice my annual profits for years to come If I can gain my point and make people look upon beer in the right light.
We must pay over to the U. S. Prowers Ass’n whatever It may require to represent us properly before Congress, where we lmve most Important bills to defend. Wo must defeat tlmt Ilepburn-Dolllver Bill, which is most dangerous and antagonistic to our Industry and which makes Prohibition possible. Then we want to defeat any bill which may be brought up to Increase tlie revenue tax on beer, with which we are now threatened; wc want to reestablish the military canteen at all army posts ami on our Men of War; nml in nil Reci — procity treaties, we want our government to see that American beer enters foreign countries with a moderate and reasonable duty, and not one which Is prohibitive ns in the ense in most of the republics in South America and In Australia and as will be the case In nil countries where breweries will be established unless we take an active interest in the matter nnd prevent this.
We want further to see that no Prohibition Is enforced in the District of Columbia or embodied in the Constitution of Oklahoma when the latter is admitted to statehood.
All this will cost lots of money; we do not want to spend one ceut bribing the good people. but we will have to be liberal with the Press of many states and with friends to gain the ear of senators or members of Congress and enlist their good will. Up to now everything has been neglected; no brewery In the United States has done Its duty towards its business, and for this reason we have met with defeat in nearly every instance. The lawmakers of our country feel this, and therefore I say reforms are imperative; we must act; we must all put our shoulder to the wheel; we must do our duty towards ourselves and our business, and I demand of you that you enter the rank and file and help us to win our cause. If small and stupid fellows who happen to be in the same line of business with us stay out. it cuts no figure; but every sensible brewer must Join the movement, and assist us in our efforts to put the brewing business in the United States in the first rank.
It Is of importance that you remit at once to Mr. Cluuss and thus prevent our colleagues from expressing surprise that one of the breweries in which Adolphus Busch Is interested lias refused to pay its assessment. Everything that is done by the Bureau will benefit Texas in some way, if not directly then Indirectly.
With kind regurds, I am
Very truly yours.
ADOLPHUS BUSCH
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Источник: «Brewing and liquor interests and German and Bolshevik propaganda» (1919). Report of the Subcommittee on the Judiciary, I, p.1300.
