The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22
The Secretary of the Brewers
Association Tells of the
Business.
ANNUAL OUTPUT OF THE STATE.
The Combine Will Not Reduce the
Price of the Malt Liquor 1t
Manufactures.

"The article published in THE CALL this
morning about our movement to fight the
brewers combination" said Frank Marty
Yesterday afternoon, ''drew large num-
Der OF interested saloon-men to my place
Today, and there is no doubt in my mind
that we will make a success of it.
Before a week is over we will have
enough signatures to the petition to make
a good showing.
You say that the combination has
added another brewery to their list. Well,
that's all right. That will not affect us,
for we will get all the beer we need from
outside the City, and if we meet with
any opposition in that then we have an
other remedy We viii build another
brewery large enough to supply the de-
mand. That is the least of our troubles.
1t might delay our plans for little time,
but that would not exceed two or three
months-lust long enough to build our
brewery
The brewers declare that they cannot
make beer for less than 81 barrel" and
the speaker smiled as he said this. why,
II does not cost more than 81 90 to make
II, so you can see what profit there is in
the business. With the profit they make
they could certainly spend what they did
upon the course they have announced
they must abide by the consequences, fer
we intend TO carry out our plan, and from
the support already promised l feel sure
that we shall succeed.
81 cannot at this time say more about
our plans than has already been published
IN IHE CALL. In the course OF a few davs
We shall be able to make showing that
Will astOnlsh the brewers. They have
formed into monopoly and we will try to
break il"
Rudolph Mohr. secretary of the Brewers
Protective Association, in conversation on
the subject of the movement of which
Frank Marty is the acknowledged head
and front. said: THAT will not amount
to anything. In talking TO saloon keepers,
and have talked to great many of them
l md that they are we'll satisfied with the
new arrangement. and they appreciate
that 1t Is to their interest that it should be
as 1t is.
The new schedule of rates does not in
crease the rates. On the contrary the
saloon men are gamers. Under the old rule
they were charged $5 30 a barrel and the
driver was allowed to treat to the extern of
30 cents barrel and the saloon man was
bound to treat in return. Now they get
the beer for So net and do not have to treat,
so they are IN the amount 1t would cost
them in liquor or cigars
Beer cannot be furnished cheaper than
1t Is, for 1t costs little over 81 barrel to
make and deliver to the purchaser; and if
1t were cheaper saloon men would use a
greater quantity. and by so doing would
furnish to the prOhibitionists and
the high license people an excuse
Tor continuing the attack on the saloons
They would have an opportunity to urge
that there was an increase in intOXicatiOn
but that, ! contend, would not be true, for
II Is well-knOwn fact that beer does not
contain more than per cent of alcohol.
and Tor that reason is one of the most tenn
perate drinks used.
In 1873, continued MIR. Mohr. "the out
put OF beer in California was 300. 900 barrels.
Now 1t IS 100000, of which between $50 600
and 100000 are brewed in this Citv. In
the business of beer-making there is used
yearly 100000 centals of barley and grain
in the State, between 5000 and 5000 bales of
hops, weighing 200 pounds each, also
raised IN this State; between 500 and 1000
horses are employed, and the kegs run up
into the millions. One thousand men are
employed in the business, whose wages in
the aggregate amount to $50, 900 week. or
81, 10000 year. Then there are coopers.
carpenters, bricklayers, foundrymen
blacksmiths, horseshoers and others who
make a living out of the business. and
everything used is Californian except that
which cannot be procured here. This, of
course, IS exclusive of the bottled beer
brands, of which have no statistics. The
money derived from the business is spent
in California
THE list of breweries published in THE
CALL this morning is not complete, for
since the circular was printed and sent out
one more, the st, Louis Brewery, has been
added, and you may say that all the brew
erles are with Us.
Il have no means of knowing where
those who are interested in the movement
against rs will obtain the supply they re-
fer to, but they will not get it from Sacra-
mento nor San Jose. Vallejo at one time
shipped beer TO this City. but does not DO
so now and will not"
A prominent individual who has had
more or less to do with the English beer
syndicate said that those of the opposition
movement who assert that they want the
money to remain in this country probably
refer to the English syndicate. ''If they
do" he added, "they are laboring under
mistake, for the English syndicate has not
been sending anV money to England -