Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer (50 page)

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“It is a working model”: “The World’s Fair,”
Western Brewer
18 (July 1893): 1540.

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“the standard bearer”: Ibid., 1284.

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“correct to the minutest detail”: Ibid., 1539.

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“every outline”: Ibid., 1780.

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“specific points of excellence”: “Capt. Pabst Satisfied,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
December 22, 1893, p. 1.

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“We exhibitors”: “Absurd Score of the Beer Jury,”
American Brewers’ Review
7 (October 12, 1893): 240.

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“‘march[ed] at the head’”: Ibid., 240, 241.

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“the hottest”: “Beer Prizes in Doubt,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
October 28, 1893,p. 1.

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“suppers, banquets”: “Milwaukee Beer First,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
November 17, 1893, p. 5.

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“self-puffing”: Editorial from
Illinois Staats Zeitung
reprinted in English translation as “Much Ado About Nothing,” in
Milwaukee Sentinel,
October 30, 1893, p. 3.

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“King of Brewers”: “The King of Brewers,”
Chicago Daily Tribune,
October 27, 1893, p. 9.

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“[B]y using”: “The Anheuser-Busch Victorious,”
Chicago Daily Tribune,
October 27, 1893, p. 8.

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“The stuff published”: “Milwaukee in the Race,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
October 29, 1893, p. 3.

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“by what authority”: “Brewers Want to Know,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
November 2, 1893, p. 1.

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“PABST Milwaukee Beer WINS”:
Milwaukee Sentinel,
November 17, 1893, p. 9.

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“digest the voluminous evidence”: “The Beer Award Contest,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
November 29, 1893, p. 10.

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“fine diplomatic talk”: Quoted in Peter Hernon and Terry Ganey,
Under the Influence: The Unauthorized Story of the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 51.

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“are not given to the goods”: Ibid., 52.

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“You ask me Gustav”: Quoted in Cochran,
Pabst Brewing Company,
191.

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“I can truly say”: “Spreads Sorrow in the City,”
Milwaukee Sentinel,
January 2, 1904, p. 3.

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“Let us meet”: Adolphus Busch to Charles Nagel, April 18, 1910; Nagel Papers, Box 3/Folder 40. I supplied periods, commas, and capitals to this otherwise mostly unpunctuated telegram.

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“[Y]ou are such”: Quoted in Giersch,
Gussie,
27.

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“world wide fame”: Ibid., 26.

CHAPTER FOUR

The Enemy at the Gates

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“[t]he constant use”: Quoted in G. Thomann,
The Effects of Beer Upon Those Who Make It and Drink It
(New York: The United States Brewers’ Association, 1886), 3.

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“the filthiest fats”: George T. Angell,
Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections
(Boston: American Humane Education Society, [1892]), 60.

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“It is well known”: “Beer Substitutes,”
Milwaukee Daily News,
September 22, 1878, p. 4.

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“spurious beer”: “Rice Beer,”
Milwaukee Daily News,
September 26, 1878, p. 4.

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“temporary insanity”: “A Sad Example,”
Milwaukee Daily News,
October 9, 1878, p. 4.

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“[W]e have constantly aimed”: “Ph. Best Brewing Co.,”
Milwaukee Daily News,
September 25, 1878, p. 4.

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“mental disturbance”: Department of Agriculture, Division of Chemistry, Bulletin No. 13,
Food and Food Adulterants. Part Third: Fermented Alcoholic Beverages, Malt Liquors, Wine, and Cider,
by C. A. Crampton (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1887), 311.

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“Acid in the Beer
”: “Acid in the Beer
,”Milwaukee Sentinel,
January 8, 1888, p. 2.

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“In those first few years”: Quoted in Justin Steuart,
Wayne Wheeler Dry Boss
(1928; reprint Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970), 50.

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“I stand for prohibition
”: Quoted in Andrew Sinclair,
Prohibition: The Era of Excess
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1962), 113.

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“The Headquarters for Murderers”: Peter H. Odegard,
Pressure Politics; The Story of the Anti-Saloon League
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1928): 43.

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“[W]hen the saloon”: Ibid., 59.

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“Liquor is responsible”: Ibid., 60.

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“create the appetite”: Ibid., 41.

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“is the most autocratic”: Ibid., 23.

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“run over”: Ibid.

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“Uncle Sam”: Quoted in Richard F. Hamm,
Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 96.

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“tyrrany, idiocy, fanaticism”: Quoted in
The Brewers and Texas Politics
(San Antonio, TX: Passing Show Print Co., 1916), 151.

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“He recommends and speaks”: Adolphus Busch to Charles Nagel, July 29, 1911; Charles Nagel Papers, Box 6/Folder 84, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University. Hereafter cited as Nagel Papers.

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“It is my aim”: Quoted in
Brewers and Texas Politics,
92.

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“As you are aware”: Quoted in ibid., 579.

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“We have about arranged”: Quoted in ibid., 258.

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“the young, lawless element”: Quoted in ibid., 696-97.

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“low dives”: Quoted in Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
Brewing and Liquor Interests and German Propaganda: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary.
65th Cong., 2d sess., 1918, 1117.

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“The Salt Lake Brewing Company”: Quoted in ibid., 1115.

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“the object of severest criticism”: Charles Nagel to August A. Busch, November 26, 1907, Nagel Papers, microfilm set. Nagel wrote this letter less than a week after the Busches finally took his advice and agreed to close lawless saloons affiliated with Anheuser-Busch. The letter’s text makes it clear that Nagel was only restating on paper arguments he had made verbally in the preceding months.

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“the suppression”: “Busch Firm Declares War on Evil Saloons,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
November 15, 1907, p. 9.

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“110 saloons”: “Busch Defied to ‘Make Good’ in Belleville,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
November 17, 1907, p. 4.

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“[H]ow many thousands”: “Fanatical Envy!,”
American Brewer
33, no. 4 (April 1, 1910): 167.

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“devotion and love”: “13,000 Attend Busch Wedding Jubilee,”
St. Louis Republican,
March 8, 1911, p. 4.

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“I . . . wish to know”: Quoted in Stanley Baron,
Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1962), 289.

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“promote”: “Wilson Speaks to Brewers,”
New York Times,
October 19, 1911, p. 7.

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“If Mr. Farwell will call”: Ibid.

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“[T]here was nothing else”: Quoted in Baron,
Brewed in America,
299.

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“Well, they couldn’t have”: Adolphus Busch to Charles Nagel, March 7, 1912; Nagel Papers, Box 7/Folder 102.

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“I have a kind of feeling”: Adolphus Busch to Charles Nagel, August 2, 1912; Nagel Papers, Box 8/Folder 114.

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“giant among men”: Charles Nagel, “Adolphus Busch: A Great Life Understood,”
Western Brewer
41 (November 1913): 231.

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“Our song to-day”: “ ‘Loved Busch, Not His Riches,’ Says Bartholdt,”
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
October 26, 1913, 8.

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“Kings inherit their realms”: “Busch Body Moves Thro’ Silent Throng to Resting Place,”
St. Louis Republic,
October 26, 1913, II:1.

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“Temperance Crank”: Adolphus Busch to Charles Nagel, March 7, 1912, Nagel Papers, Box 7/Folder 102.

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“Prohibition is no longer”: Quoted in K. Austin Kerr,
Organized for Prohibition: A New History of the Anti-Saloon League
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985), 179.

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“You may exercise”: Quoted in David E. Kyvig,
Repealing National Prohibition,
2d ed. (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000), 9.

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“the progress of every fight”: Wayne B. Wheeler, “The Inside Story of Prohibition’s Adoption. Article II: Organizing for National Prohibition,”
New York Times,
March 29, 1926, p. 21.

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“breed deceit, hypocrisy”:
Congressional Record,
63rd Cong., 3rd sess., 1914, 52, pt. 2: 544.

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“Crime is caused by drink”: “Prohibition is Beaten in House,”
New York Times,
December 23, 1914, p. 7.

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“exceedingly gratifying”: “Keeps Up Liquor Fight,”
New York Times,
December 24, 1914, p. 4.

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“Just think”:
Congressional Record,
65th Cong., 1st sess., 1917, 55, pt. 1:4727.

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“no patriotism among”: Ibid., 4724.

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“praying”: Ibid., 4711, 4712.

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“We cannot tell”: “Change in Beer to Save Grain Here Worth $1,675,000,”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,
December 12, 1917, p. 1.

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“I do not think”: Ibid.

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“indefatigable and shrewd”: Quoted in Steuart,
Wayne Wheeler,
73.

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“cohabit with the devil”: Quoted in Norman H. Clark,
Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1976), 114.

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“a red-hot”: Quoted in Steuart,
Wayne Wheeler,
51.

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“We could not have”: Ibid., 118.

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“Was the National Association”: Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
National German-American Alliance: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary.
65th Cong., 2d sess., February 23-April 13, 1918, 216.

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“It may have been”: Ibid., 206.

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“German enemies”: “Pabst Charge is Filed,”
Milwaukee Journal,
February 13, 1918, p. 6. Not long after the speech, Gustav Pabst sued Strange for slander and defamation of character, asking $25,000 in damages (about $300,000 today). Strange defended himself by arguing that at the time he made the speech, he was not acquainted with Pabst and so had not made any kind of personal attack; nor, he claimed, did anyone in the audience interpret his words as a personal attack. The judge dismissed the case.

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“organization of power”: “The Brewers’ Campaign of Righteousness,”
The Literary Digest
56, no. 2 (January 12, 1918): 57.

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“German breweries”: Ibid., 58.

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“The unthinkable barbarism”: Ibid.

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“part of the deliberate plan”: Quoted in Stanley Coben,
A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), 137-38.

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“Believing with many others”: Lilly Busch sworn affidavit, June 29, 1918, p. 4; File 193959, Box 2925, at AII loc: 230/7/24/6, Department of Justice, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

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“If Mr. Ehret”: “Nation Gets Ehret Property,”
New York Times,
May 4, 1918, p. 1.

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“I am informed”: Quoted in Steuart,
Wayne Wheeler,
121-22.

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“prominent in German court”: “Kaiser Seizes Busch Estate in Germany,”
St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
June 17, 1918, p. 1.

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“Mrs. Bush has relatives”: Jay Adams to Department of Justice, March 14, 1918; File 193959, Box 2925, at AII loc: 230/7/24/6, Department of Justice, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.

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“Question, Search, and report”: Josephus Daniels to [Thomas W. Gregory], August 12, 1918; File 193959, Box 2925, at AII loc: 230/7/24/6, Department of Justice, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD.