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sumptions mat tney are guuiy 01 selling liquors to minors, or 111 any %vay contributing to their lapses. Mr. Harry Wicbke, ol the Hof Brau, Is emphatic in protesting that he did not serve or sell liquors to boys nsj accused by Churu-biiKco parties, m fact Mr. Wicbke does not sell liquors in private rooms at alland naturally resents the reflections on his business without giving him an opportunity to face his accusers and deny their charges. Mr. Kleindinst, of the Hotel Edwin, says he is not guilty, miya he Is running the Hotel Edwin on the square—that ah the money he has Is invested in it and with Mrs. Kleindinst is doing the right thing as he will show in court,Quite a tearful presentment by outraged honesty, now isn’t it? The impeccable Mr. Wiebke shudders in horror at the thought of serving liquor to minors in his place or of doing any other thing subversive of good morals. And as for the eminent purist, Mr. Kleindinst, he makes it clear that all he has in the world is invested in an honest business which lie is endeavoring to conduct in a fashion contributory to the uplift. In this connection possibly it might not havebeen amiss for Mr. Kleindinst to have told us how he acquired this “all that he. has in the world.” The chapter would not be without its enlivening features.jf Mr. Wiebke and Mr, Kleindinst are to be believed, these boys from Churubuseo, lads from I lie best families in that town, came here and got drunk at places other than their own and when detected in their sin by their grieving parents endeavored to invest their reprehensible conduct with the odor of sanctity by the assertion that they had filled up within the hallowed prechiefs of the Hotel Edwin and the Hof Brau. Almost such a slip would make their lapse appear on a! parity wills having inadvertently partaken too freely of communion! wine at some religion* service. Quite an ingenious defense, of course,but fortunately it is one that does not appeal very forcefully to tin;people of this town. For they know both the Edwin and the Hof Bran, and they know them (o be places where both boys and girls who are under age resort and where rough stud' has V*en pulled for a long time past. Mr. Kleindinst, with as near a saint-like expression on his face as u map of hell can present, assures us that sexual immorality is not practiced in his hotel. Vet Mr. Kleindinst knows, as everyone else knows, that it is in his place that men and boys find the abandoned women and girls they seek and that this city’s automobile bagnios take on their degenerate passengers at the portals of the Edwin. The fact of the matter is that that hostelry serves the functions of the pimp and that therein its activity chiefly lies. Kleindinstand Wicbke are two of a kind and that kind is one which should not be allowed to engage in the liquor business in any community in whichmorality is of any particular concern.
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Fort Wayne News
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Jul 28, 1915
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