LIQUOR TRAFFIC’S “LIBERALITY.”
THE people who use “strong drink” unwittingly assist in many foolish extravagances. That they pay enormous prices for the stuff they use, is shown in the manner of life the manufacturers are able to lead, and the appalling prices they are able to pay for advertising. It is said that the entire expense account of the Japanese and Russian peace envoys at Portsmouth, N. H., were paid by the Portsmouth Brewing Company, the property of the Frank Jones estate. The following facts, taken from an exchange, are significant: Judge Calvin Page, trustee of the Frank Jones estate, frankly admitted that the big brewing company and the Hotel Wentworth entertained the envoys as an advertisement. Hotel expenses, bills for wines and cigars, all were O. K.’d by the estate of the late Frank Jones, millionaire beer brewer, and once president of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The State of New Hampshire had no fund to spend on the envoys, and so the Jones estate assumed the burden. Judge Page thinks that the advertisement ought to be worth a million or more for Jones’ ale and the Hotel Wentworth, which the estate also owns.”