The Vermont Watchman

No School on the Hilltop.

The brewers claim that their industry—the manufacture of beer—contributes largely to the general public prosperity. The Milwaukee Sentinel takes occasion to show how the manufacture of beer has benefited that city, which is famous for the number of its breweries and beer saloons. It says: "At least six new school buildings are immediately necessary, but because there are so many saloons the tax-payers must support police and courts and jails and charitable institutions with their money. There are hundreds of children of school age in the city who are denied school privileges because we cannot afford to put up more school-buildings." Referring to the 3,000 saloons, it says: "They render it necessary to sustain a large police force to preserve order in this city. They compel the city and the county to support courts and all the machinery of the law to take care of offenders. They make us support a house of correction for the seclusion of the drunkards and criminals at an enormous cost, almshouses and hospitals for the poor and diseased, and largely made so by the drink curse. Obviously the brewers are anything but a blessing to Milwaukee."