KBSS' ONE CENT-jh-ONE CENT RAIL HEADS SPLIT ON SETTLEMENT CATHOLICS DENY OPPOSING WILSON THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 5, NO. 279 Chicago, Wednesday, August 23, 1916 398 DEPARTMENT STORES SEEL MUCH BOOZE Liquor Dealers Say State Street Is Responsible for Many Sunday Jags Claim Brewers Favor Closing Law . Hit U. S. Official. The saloonkeepers of Chicago are prepared at last to fight the big brewers and distillers. They realize, according to the officers of the Li quor Dealers' Protective ass'n, that the big fellows have not been aiding them in their fight on the Sunday closing law. On the cpntrary, the profits of the brewers and distillers have increased since Thompson shut saloons on Sunday, and they are willing that the mayor keep them Shut The Liquor Dealers Proteptiye ass'n has called a special meeting for tomorrow afternoon, at which plans to fight the brewers and dis tillers will be discussed. The saloon keepers will bring up the fact that through newspaper and billboard ad vertising the brewers and distillers have encouraged people to buy liquor directly from them without giving the saloonkeeper a chance at the profits. Another effect of the Sunday clos ing law which has aroused the sa loonkeepers, is ncrease n tfte saje l. ,. .....IttMitt