Show BREWERY developments CHICAGO is once more to the front in a scheme which will surprise the opponents of the liquor traffic in this sou country the big breweries of that city have instituted a fund of to be used exclusively in the pur chave chase of real estate for saloon purposes in european cities the plan projected here is nothing new dew it simply means the oa ownership a and nd control of saloons or at least enough of them to give the breweries the power to dictate terms under present arrangements arrange mente competition enters largely into the trade the saloonkeeper buys ot 09 the brewer who gives the mst mat favorable terms this begets competition and beer wars ware are often tt tie e result at one time a war of this kind hind became so fierce that beer was sold to the saloons at 2 0 per barrel under the new scheme the breweries organize themselves into a sort eort of trust property available for saloon purposes will be purchased and saloons habad thereon they will then be rented to tenants who must accept the conditions of the brewery combine saloons already established will wili be bought and placed on the same basis barsis as those owned by the brewers in this manner it is contemplated to obtain control of the retail liquor trade in a few years from a political point of view the operation of this scheme will place municipal governments virtually in the hands bands of the brewery syndicate chicago has salo na looss oas with one half of these wielded as one their in fluence as a factor in city politics can well be estimated the poorest place in any city can always command from three to five votes hence the power of resorts of this kind must be powerful |