Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1887 — National Distillers. [ARTICLE]

National Distillers.

The National Distillers’ Protective Association in session at Cincinnati, adjourned last Wednesday. A lopg list of resolutions were adopted. The resolutions declare that though “in saver of temperance we are opposed to prohibition, general or local, whether sought to be accomplished by direct statute or by exhorbitant and proscriptive license, and are opposed to it because we believe it, to be wrong in pricciple, impossible of enforcement and promotive of the worst forms of deceit and hypocrisy.” The resolutions then endorse the tax or license system. A protest is urged against making the question partisan or politi--caL—lt is further resolved “that we esteem the business in which w'e are engaged as honorable and as honest as any other mercantile pursuit, and we pledge ourselves to do all those things which honest and honorable men may do t£ secure themselves the protection to which the vast capital art! far-reaching dependencies of our business entities us.”